How to Make Simple Pixelated Characters in Photoshop

in #art7 years ago (edited)

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Good Day guys! Today, I'm discussing how you can make simple characters pixelated using Photoshop - this isn't the best tutorial but it's a good way to do it and can be easily adapted by beginners.

We're gonna use characters from a series from Japan called Doraemon, you may know them from watching TV - I grew up in these kind of toons and I really like the characters. In fact, this is actually a very long series because it was so successful, people just can't get enough of it.

Reference images used:

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Image Sources: Wikia | Doraemon

Great! Now that you've met the characters, let's get to making them pixelated or something. Do follow as well if you have Photoshop - doing it is the best way to learn it! Enjoy!


Here are the Steps:

Open your image by pressing File > Open or Ctrl+O:

Select the image you want then press Open:

We've chosen Doraemon for this tutorial, he's saying 'Hi' to you now, look:

Next, we have to set-up some important settings. Go to Edit > Preferences > General or press Ctrl+K

Under General, change Image Interpolation into "Nearest Neighbor (preserve hard edges)":

Now under Guides, grids, & slices, set the "Gridline Every" to a value of "1" and choose "Pixels" from the drop-down.

Then, go to Image > Image Size or press Alt+Ctlr+I:

Change the Width to a smaller value - for mine I will choose "50" (make sure the values are still linked) then press Ok:

This will give you a really small image:

Now, again go to Image > Image Size or press Alt+Ctlr+I:

This time change the Width to a bigger value - for mine I will choose "500" (make sure the values are still linked) then press Ok:

This will give you a larger - pixelated image:

After that, go to Filter then choose Filter Gallery (the 2nd one):

Choose Cutout and follow these settings:

You will get an image like this:

Add another layer and move it under your character's image so you can set up a background:

I'm gonna use the Gradient Tool for this:

This step gave me this image where I can see the subject better:

I did the same thing on 3 more characters and added them all into the same photo:

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Also on a bubble for the text and a text layer that says 'hello'. I added those into the photo above along with a signature of my username here which gave me my final image.


Here's the Final Work!

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The same thing was done for the Doraemon-Nobita pattern at the very first part of this post.


I appreciate you so much for viewing my post, thanks for the support as well! Glad you dropped by!

Thanks!


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quality information, thanks for giving us guidance in making good edits in photoshop

Hehe, you're welcome and thanks!

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Nice tutorial. :)

I appreciate the comment.

interesting and great posts

hi @reiban, a new knowledge for me in deepening the way photo editing in photoshop, thank you for sharing

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Thanks @reiban, this is very useful information

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thank you for the information

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little kids will kill you if you really dont do that well lol ! they are die hard fans of doremon :D where is shizuka ? :D

I used google to search those images. I think I missed her so it became a boys day out.

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