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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Celestine ?

Seconding!

 Minigingernuke wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to upsize the images without losing quality, Cause i cant find a way of doing so.

It's impossible because of the way the data is stored, sorry.

Edit: WEll, not the storage per se. Enlarging an image involves moving all of the pixels that make up that image further apart, then filling in the gaps. You need a really advanced piece of programming that doesn't actually exist yet to fill in the gaps. I mean, basic versions exist, but they won't give you a good quality image. That's only for CSci-fI.

I think an Avatar of Khaine would be fun.

These are all great, btw. I especially love the part where people whinge because they don't understand the point of pixel art is to pixels in the proper resolution you'd have seen on an old NES game. It wasn't even 640x480. I think it was half that.

 SRSFACE wrote:
These are all great, btw. I especially love the part where people whinge because they don't understand the point of pixel art is to pixels in the proper resolution you'd have seen on an old NES game. It wasn't even 640x480. I think it was half that.

I keep on meaning to hook my old (working!) Atari 2600 up to my new large-ish flat screen TV. Play classic games like Adventure! with pixels as big as my thumb. Probably have to fankencable 3 or 4 adapters together to mesh the decades of technological advancement.

There is no school like old school...

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Minigingernuke wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to upsize the images without losing quality, Cause i cant find a way of doing so.

It's impossible because of the way the data is stored, sorry.

I disagree. He does not speak about increasing the quality, just keeping the same, i.e., not getting the blur some programs would add when upsizing. It is perfectly possible, just double the height and length of the image and you are done. Each pixel is replaced by 4 pixel.

Primarchs.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

I disagree. He does not speak about increasing the quality, just keeping the same, i.e., not getting the blur some programs would add when upsizing. It is perfectly possible, just double the height and length of the image and you are done. Each pixel is replaced by 4 pixel.

You can see the loss of resolution that would give on the previous page. :p

What are you speaking about ?
In both case, the image have the exact same amount of information. It is very easy to go from one to the other. And, actually, you can do that by just changing your screen resolution. Go from, say, 2048x1536 to 1024x768, and bang, the very same image is now displayed twice as big, because one pixel is now twice as big. No loss of information at all.

Of course, if what you would like is interpolation, to use more smaller pixels rather than just getting bigger pixel, that is not at all that easy. But still possible to an extent. However, vector graphics would be way better than raster graphics for that. But then, you would loose the 8-bit style, which is the whole purpose of the thread.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

I disagree. He does not speak about increasing the quality, just keeping the same, i.e., not getting the blur some programs would add when upsizing. It is perfectly possible, just double the height and length of the image and you are done. Each pixel is replaced by 4 pixel.

You can see the loss of resolution that would give on the previous page. :p

Adobe photoshop CS has an option to do it without any loss for exact pixel increase. It's not very difficult to do wihtout loss of quality as long as you are increasing each pixel by a whole number amount. Decreasing on the other hand runs into problems.

Edit: here we are

 Nevelon wrote:

 Minigingernuke wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to upsize the images without losing quality, Cause i cant find a way of doing so.

I know this is a serious question, but I had to laugh at “8-bit images” and “losing quality”

There may be some pixilation.

Yeah it goes all blurry when i upsize it.

I didnt see the second page of comments.


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 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

I disagree. He does not speak about increasing the quality, just keeping the same, i.e., not getting the blur some programs would add when upsizing. It is perfectly possible, just double the height and length of the image and you are done. Each pixel is replaced by 4 pixel.

You can see the loss of resolution that would give on the previous page. :p

Adobe photoshop CS has an option to do it without any loss for exact pixel increase. It's not very difficult to do wihtout loss of quality as long as you are increasing each pixel by a whole number amount. Decreasing on the other hand runs into problems.

Edit: here we are

Thanks man, i couldnt find a way to do that.

What program are you using?

Should be able to do it in paint, to be fair...

Edit: Those are awesome, by the way.

I use GIMP as its free really, Also thanks for saying its awesome.

I'm not sure about how it is in gimp (I'll have to check) but in image re-sizing there should be a option for the type of re-sizing. Select "nearest neighbor" and increase the size by and even hundred of % (for those I used 400%).


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Forget what I just said, under scale image, make interpolation "none".

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I'm not sure about how it is in gimp (I'll have to check) but in image re-sizing there should be a option for the type of re-sizing. Select "nearest neighbor" and increase the size by and even hundred of % (for those I used 400%).


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Forget what I just said, under scale image, make interpolation "none".

Thanks man, that really helps

I propose we add these glorious pixels to dakkas orkmoticons!

 Da krimson barun wrote:
I propose we add these glorious pixels to dakkas orkmoticons!

Now that would be really awesome, there are more on the way, Bjorn the Fell Handed's dreadnought form is being rather annoying to figure out, also been building miniatures aswell so not as much time.

Infact the first two that i did, two generic leaders, a Chaos Terminator Lord, and a Space Marine Captain with a couple of weapons

 Da krimson barun wrote:
I propose we add these glorious pixels to dakkas orkmoticons!

Ok, there has to be a way to do this because those 8bits images are awesome.

chaos won is awesome, captain not so much. are we going to make a petition?

 the shrouded lord wrote:
chaos won is awesome, captain not so much. are we going to make a petition?

Seconding the petition!

 the shrouded lord wrote:
chaos won is awesome, captain not so much. are we going to make a petition?

Yeah the Captain was my first sprite i did. it isnt that good but its still alright.

The ultramarine stuff is a little small compared to the rest. But the Chaos guys are spot on. Swarmy is just awesome.