Pixelate Image
Makes a photo look pixelated: big squares, a palette from the photo or a ready-made one (Game Boy, PICO-8), plus a grid.
Pixels smaller than 4 dots get no grid — lower “Pixels wide”.
Result
Drop in a photo and it breaks into large squares, each filled with its own average color. The slider sets how many pixels fit across the width, so a small picture and a big one come out looking the same.
Colors
- All photo colors — plain pixelation, each square keeps its own color.
- Colors from the photo — 4, 8, 16, or 32 colors picked from the image itself. The result looks like pixel art from old games.
- Ready-made palettes — Game Boy, PICO-8, CGA, grayscale, and black and white.
"Smoothing" alternates neighboring pixels where the palette has no matching color, so the eye catches an in-between shade.
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