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[mrfredman]

So I've been using photoshop to do a ton of art for my Bootleg Demakes entry, and I have stumbled upon a problem. I tend to do all my work in small restrictive sizes to maintain that pixel art feel, but when I try to make the image bigger photoshop blends all the colors together and it looks blurry and ridiculous. I'm sure that there is some setting somewhere that will make it so my pixel art retains it original shape and color, but I can't find it for the life of me, maybe something to do with anti-aliasing... i dunno

I'm still a bit of a photoshop newb, so I'd really appreciate some help. Also if its unclear what I'm talking about, I can make some examples and show you, but I think its pretty clear what the problem is... I just need some pro spriter to help me find the solution.

Thanks in advance!

[policedanceclub]

In the pop-up window, when you resize the image, change the bicubic to nearest neighbor.

I hope this is what you meant.

[Akhel]

It's easy! Go to Edit > Preferences > General (or press Ctrl+K by default) and select Nearest Neighbor for Image Interpolation. Voilà! Be sure to play with the other modes as well; while they're probably not suitable at all for pixel art, they can be very useful when manipulating photos and such.

[Akhel]

Crap, you beat me to it.

[Dacke]

It's also important to remember to resize it so that every original pixel turns in to exactly 4 or 9 or 16 pixels. Otherwise you'll end up with unevenly sized "pixels" in your final image. The easiest way is to simply set the new image size to 200% or 300% or 400% etc.

[mrfredman]

I knew it was something super simple.

Thanks very much guys!