[Joe The Twin]

Pixel Tippery

Introduction
Welcome to Pixel Tippery, if you are in need of help with pixel work this is the place to post. In this topic you will find a collection of guides made here on Sal's by Sal's members. If you can't find what your looking for in the guides or you want more help/info then post your question and let the other members answer.

For example. SUPERLEETKILLACOP wants to pixel and he does really well but he needs to know how to pixel sky and clouds. So what SUPERLEETKILLACOP does is clicks on this topic and looks through the guides. However he dosn't find enough information so what he can do is post here asking for help. Then anyone who knows a good technique such as SUPERLEETPIXELKILLER could post how he would pixel a sky. But, another member, ILIKEPWNCHICKENCOP could have a different way of pixeling sky he finds better so he posts that. So then SUPERLEETKILLCOP has two ways he could pixel sky and he could use what he finds easier or he could merge them together.

Rules:
No flaming other peoples techniques.
No Ripping.

Advice Guides

Internal Links
Guide to Buddy Kits ~ Beret
Making your own buddy kit advise and General Pixel Tips ~ Stringaling
Metal Shading Tut ~ Morfius.

^^^ If the origional creators want to remake these into picture form so we don't loose them, that would be nice so we don't loose them if they get prooned.

External Links
Pixel Tippery Part 1 ~ Cinimon Stix
Features how to make a background
Pixel Tippery Part 2 ~ Cinimon Stix
Continue from the previous Pixel Tippery. Contains all you need to know on Drawing People.
Anon Joe's Pixel Tip Guide ~ By Me
Features Tips on textures and lighting.
How to Assemble Buddy Kits ~ Ambo100
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Features how to assemble buddy kits.
Pixel Basics ~ Morfius
Features Pixel Tips
*New*Kieyanar's Pixel Tutorial 1 ~ Kieyanar
Features practically anything you'll need to no about Pixeling from Technical tweeks to different styles
*New*Kieyanar's Pixel Tutorial 2 ~ Kieyanar
Features tips on what to do once you've finished the pixel and how to save it. Also contains how to Transparance images.
*New*How to Auto-Alias ~ Legend
Features an indepth guide on the advanced colouring style that it AAing.
How to Create your very own graphics kit ~ Me
Features Pixel Tips needed to make your own kit.
*New*Lighting and colour ~ Doomcreator0
Features a guide on lighting and how it can effect the quality of your pixel.
Balmung's Pixel Tips ~ Balmung
Features more Tips to help any Budding Pixelist.

Morfius' Soft Pallet.

This post has been edited by Anonymous Joe: Jan 21 2008, 01:12 PM

Reason for edit: A useful topic! Super-glued for now. I suggest that those 'internal guides' are saved somewhere, incase those topics are lost. ~Meen

[The Darkest]

I've heard people talk about pixel style, whats that?


Woot, first post on a sure fire long thread!

[Joe The Twin]

pixel style is a persons own unique style. Forinstance my pixels will looks different to morfius' or Jnr J's because their styles are different to mine.

[Cinimon Stix]

Darkdoom (Pandaloo) Is one of the best cloud pixelars I know.

[Andyana]

ah I get it. So If I say: I need help with this background. someone explains here.

Well that will get rid of alot of spam.
This should be stickied

[Ambo100]

I dont think this should be stickied there already is graphic discusion and questions board.

[Amanda]

Darkdoom (Pandaloo) Is one of the best cloud pixelars I know.

You really think?


I'd be happy to give any tips and hints, this just be fun

[morfius]

I dont think this should be stickied there already is graphic discusion and questions board.

Spam plox?

This looks like it will be a success and I hope it works.

[Andyana]

I dont think this should be stickied there already is graphic discusion and questions board.

when it comes to pixeling it seems nobody posts about stuff in it.

[Jnr J]

I dont think this should be stickied there already is graphic discusion and questions board.

when it comes to pixeling it seems nobody posts about stuff in it.

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People don't normally post about anything pixel related anywhere in the Graphics section apart from in here.

I get afew PM's from people asking for tips, I'm sure that this will be helpful.

[3volution]

I the rubber trick

Say you want the Black Sqaure to turn blue.


Set the Primary Colour to Black and your Secondary Colour to what ever you want it to be, in this case blue.


Then while holding right click drag it over the sqaure and

[hypercat]

Ok, can anyone tell me the best and easiest ways to draw plants/grass/trees that don't look flourescent and cartoony (looking for real looking ones here)

And can anyone help me to draw people's faces at an angle in proportion?

[Joe The Twin]

for grass i'd get a photo of grass and get about 3-5 different greens from the photo, then colour the entire floor in one colour, then (this bit is tedious) using your other greens draw individual grass blades all over the image. Use your colours of grass to show shadow or movement or just to make it look more like idividual blades of grass. When you do this you can be as random as you possibly want to.

[3volution]

Also hold Shift while dragging for:

Circle - Perfect Circle
Sqaure - Perfect Sqaure
Line - Straight Line

I can see this working, soon the whole world will know how to pixel

[Lupin]

NVM sorry for the post, I already knew that trick.

On topic: For grass I use this techniche:

FIrst you get a single color of green(or the color of grass you want, Purple O.o)

Then you grab the spray tool and choose like 4 colors of greens. You spray with the bigger spray all over the grass.

If you want to put people, first do teh step above, then do your guy, and on the boots,feet,hand,body,etc you draw blades of grass to make it looks mroe realistic, of course with differents tones of green.

-Lupin

This post has been edited by Lupin: Apr 5 2007, 03:24 PM

[morfius]

When shading something with quite a significant light source, don't just stick to say for example the light pink palette for white skin. Vary the hue a bit, so you might be using purple tones in shaded places and yellowish tones in lit places when the sun is the light source. The same applies with fire, except you might find yourself using peachy orange in light spots and brown/violet in dark areas.

edit: I've just thought that you could add an advice hall of fame with help and tips from this topic quoted under certain titles.

This post has been edited by morfius: Apr 5 2007, 04:08 PM

[Thunderthighs]

Actually I think we should write tutorials and have links to them on the first post.

[Thanks 4 the war...]

Should this be stickyed? i think so.

Yeh, need help on skiy though, i'm terrible at it.... oh and the sun

[Bronze]

I need help with hair , I just can't seem to get it to "Flow" , also good idea Anon.

[Cinimon Stix]

I'm gonna write a tutorial on "How to draw Grass" because it seems like that is the most frequent thing asked... also fires. O_o