bit art in Photoshop

Tobes

Tobes

Tobes

Soldato
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Hi,

How would I start in photoshop if I wanted to create bit art seen in old skool games. Space Invaders etc.

I want to be able to work in a grid and use a block pencil to draw them. But the only way I can do this is if I zoom really close into the image. Is this the right way or is it possible to manage the canvas more efficiently?

Cheers,
Tobes
 
Even though I'm not a pixel artist, here's one Photoshop tip that I'm sure they must use:

Once you've opened the file you want to work on, if you go to Window > Arrange > New Window for [filename], this will open up another window with a view of the same file. This is not a copy of the file, this is the same file, so any work you do to the file in one window will immediately be shown in the other window too.

You can probably see where I'm going with this: set one window to be a 'work' view that's zoomed in really close for per-pixel editing, and use the other window as a 'reference' view with less of a zoom, to give you an idea of what it's looking like at 100-200%, say.

There doesn't appear to be any reasonable limit to the number of different views you can have open at once, either, so you can have more than three or more zoom levels viewable at once if so desired. :)
 
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