Gridwright Studio

Pixelator

Pixel art from any picture

The Pixelator turns renders, paintings, photos and 3D screenshots into clean pixel art on an exact grid. It picks a limited palette (or uses yours), adds dithering if you want it, removes half-transparent pixels and draws outlines.

Open all frames of an animation together and they share one palette, so colours never flicker between frames. Save PNGs at any scale, a sprite sheet with a JSON map, a GIF, or the palette for Aseprite and other editors.

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A first session

  1. 1Open an image, a GIF or several frames.
  2. 2Set the pixel size and pick a palette or let it choose one.
  3. 3Add dithering and outlines, then compare before and after.
  4. 4Save PNG, a sprite sheet, a GIF or the palette.
It exports
  • PNG 1x-8x
  • Sprite sheet + JSON
  • GIF
  • Palette (.hex, .gpl)
Free and Pro
Free: everything, saves up to 64x64 px. Pro: any size.
Version 1.0. Runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari; nothing to install.
Can I use what I make in a commercial game?
Yes. What you make with the tools is yours to use in your games, commercial ones too, under the Gridwright licence.

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