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  • Live resize: real-time pixeling as you draw line art

    Draw your sprite like traditional line art, and have Photoshop shrink and convert your lines into easy to clean pixels on the fly.
  • Instant pixel art backgrounds with the Dan Fessler Method Instant pixel art backgrounds with the Dan Fessler Method

    Turn Photoshop into a pixel art powerhouse with beautiful dithering by a clever use of layer styles
  • “Fix my sprite!” Volume 3

    Volume 3: Smaller pixel styles. Taking a break from the usual ‘fighter’ sizes, we discover that smaller isn’t always easier.
  • So you want your sprites to be 16 colors So you want your sprites to be 16 colors

    A Photoshop or GIMP technique for reducing your colors and conforming to a 16-bit palette
  • The Making of: El Zombo The Making Of: El Zombo

    Spriting in Street Fighter Alpha/Marvel vs Capcom style
  • Line weight thickness in sprites Line weight thickness in sprites

    Varying your line weight isn’t just for inks.
  • Resizing your sprites with Nearest Neighbor Resizing your sprites with Nearest Neighbor

    If you’re the type who enjoys building your sprites pixel-by-pixel straight from the ground up but find the results stiff and lifeless, consider this quicker method.
  • Fix My Sprite! Vol. 2 “Fix my sprite!” Volume 2

    Volume 2: Reducing detail doesn’t mean reducing style. Plus: How to fix sprites in Photoshop
  • Learn better anti-aliasing Learn better anti-aliasing for your pixel art

    Master the art of smoothing jagged pixel edges with the perfect anti-aliasing exercise
  • vector to pixel 2: spriting in adobe illustrator Vector to Pixel 2: Making sprites in Illustrator

    Or, “The masochist’s guide to making pixel art in a vector program.”
  • Cleaning lines with the threshold tool Video walkthrough: Cleaning lines with Threshold

    Here’s a quick trick for taking your drawn lines and reducing them to sprite size with much easier and faster cleanup.
  • Picking the best colors for your sprite Picking the best colors for your sprite

    It’s always been a challenge for me, but a few tricks can make it easier than you think.
  • "Fix My Sprite!" Vol. 1 “Fix my sprite!” Volume 1

    Volume 1: “Too much detail, too little fun”. How building your sprite with too much attention to detail strains the eye and the artist
  • The making of the Tekken Megaman sprite The Making Of: Tekken Megaman sprite

    The Grayscale Index method
  • Give your sprites depth with sub-pixel animation Give your sprites depth with sub-pixel animation

    Animating your clunky pixels smoothly and subtly
  • Vector to pixel: building your sprites in Adobe Illustrator Vector to pixel: Building your sprites in Adobe Illustrator

    Vector artists who want to build sprites in their favorite programs. Impossible, right? Think again
  • Spriting Basics: Anti-aliasing Spriting basics: Anti-aliasing

    It’s probably one of the first lessons you’d learn from most pixeling tutorials, so here’s some quick examples to get you thinking about this useful technique
  • Pixel a Capcom Background

    Imitate Capcom’s 50% dithering style to pixel a Street Fighter or Marvel stage
  • Speed Spriting in Photoshop

    Got the basics down and want to start producing stuff faster? Try this Photoshop trick and save yourself tons of coloring work
  • A basic sprite tutorial A Basic Sprite Tutorial

    Turn your drawing into pixel art using simple Photoshop or GIMP tricks
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