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5 free creative tools · Pixel art, ASCII, dithering and palettes
Try a limited palette for pixel art, characters for a text picture or dots for a print-style effect. A clear subject and a tight crop usually make these transformations easier to read. For game assets, the sprite cutter lets you check the frame grid and animation before exporting.
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- Image to pixel art Turn a photo into pixel art with retro palettes and dithering.
- ASCII art generator Make a text banner or turn a picture into character art.
- Colour palette from image Pull a colour palette out of a picture, with HEX, RGB and HSL.
- Dither & halftone Floyd–Steinberg, Atkinson, Bayer dithering and halftone screens.
- Sprite sheet cutter Slice a sprite sheet into frames, preview the animation and export.
Guides for these tasks
- How to turn an image into pixel art without making it blurry Choose a small pixel grid, reduce the palette and export at a whole-number scale. Learn how to separate lost source detail from display smoothing.
- Floyd–Steinberg, Bayer and Atkinson dithering compared Choose a dithering method by comparing gradients, outlines and texture. Practical settings for still images, plus how error diffusion, Bayer patterns and halftones work.
- How colour palette extraction works Choose dominant, balanced or saturated colours from an image, understand the sample percentages and check contrast before using a palette in a design.
- ASCII, ANSI and Unicode art: choose an output that survives copying Keep text art aligned, choose a character ramp, handle terminal colour, and export for Markdown, HTML or an image when the destination changes the formatting.
- How to cut and export a sprite sheet Align a sprite-sheet grid, fix spacing and margin errors, preview the frame order and choose PNG, ZIP, GIF or JSON exports with the right coordinates.
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