Photo into 8bit graphic?
- Started
- Last post
- 18 Responses
- Beardy
Does anyone know how to turn a photographic image into an old school 8 bit computer games image??
- pango0
i think they are all done by hand...
not quite sure actually...
- ArchitectofFate0
ehh, just set colors to 8?
- orrinward20
I once tried to do this but the outcome was quite shitty. You can get some kinda Mortal Kombat style stuff by shrinking the image using Image Size in Photoshop with "nearest neighbour".
Shrinking with NN then Expanding with NN works pretty well. If I remember rightly it works a lot better if you start with your image with dimensions of a multiple of 4, and keep reducing the size by 50% with nearest neighbour.
Here's one example I just knocked up:
Because of the pattern in the jacket it ends up coming out quite warped. If I'd manipulating the pattern on the jacket and evened it out a bit and removed the contrast in the pattern it would probably work out quite well.
- d_gitale0
save for web > GIF > reduce no of colours, pattern dither
- Beardy0
good work fella's, cheers
- detritus0
Don't forget - the pixels were bigger back then.
- fadein110
Take your image in photoshop. make a v.small copy. Enlarge it with zoom so you see pixels. Screengrab. paste into new document - voila.
- Why screengrab and paste?monospaced
- an easy way of doing it - takes seconds.fadein11
- I dont' see how copy/pasting into a new document is easier than just leaving it.monospaced
- because you need to zoom to see pixels - it wont be pixellated - duh.fadein11
- That's lame and you know it.monospaced
- monospaced0
I don't know if anyone has said it but you can do this in photoshop by making the image small and then scaling back up with nearest neighbor and reducing colors. LOL
- uhm yeah, it has been said on page 1, oh wait we are still on the first paged_gitale
- yeah, so weird that nobody had mentioned it until memonospaced
- orrinward2, 4th from the topd_gitale
- took me some time, but finally i saw what you did there :-Pd_gitale
- vaxorcist0
8 bit - 640x480(early PC) or 320x192 (atari 800/400), 280x192 (apple II).. sometimes really 4 bit color,etc...
- stewart0
step 1: filter > mosaic
step 2: adjustments > posterize
- monospaced0
If you really want to do this, you use the mosaic filter, and then posterize to reduce colors. I can't believe nobody mentioned that before.
- +100 ... what would qbn be without youd_gitale
- I know, right?monospaced
- ArchitectofFate0
mono, coz mosaic has a limit on itz pixel size bro
- GO FUCK YOURSELFmonospaced
- WHAT DO YOU MEAN BROArchitectofFate
- You are an idiot and an asshole.monospaced
- wowd_gitale
- asshole or arsehole?ArchitectofFate
- you SERIOUSLY don't fucking understand sarcasm, do you? Also, get off my nuts, I never suggested shitmonospaced
- got mono to rageout, checkArchitectofFate
- wasted your time and got you to reveal that you're just another unoriginal prick like the rest, checkmonospaced
- animatedgif0
Redrawing it by hand is the best way.
Most of these suggestions in this thread are gonna result in something that looks ugly and naive apart from d_gitale's suggestion which gives the image a dithered look.
- monospaced0
I don't know why everyone's been talking about using Photoshop, mosaic filters, scaling with nearest neighbor setting, or using a dither and posterizing. The best way to do this is obviously by hand or else you'll end up with something ugly.