Convert Any Image Into Pixel Art Using Gimp
By David Xiao
If you like to add some vintage like retro game feeling to your website, try use pixel art images might be a good idea. Here’s a quick howto.
Install GIMP
GIMP is an open source image processing program available on macOS, Linux and Windows. Visit https://www.gimp.org/ to download and install.
If you are like me who uses macOS and have the mighty homebrew package manager installed, simply run:
brew install gimp
Start Converting
Start the gimp, open your image-to-be-converted, then from the menu select Filters/Blur/Pixelize...
On the dialog box, you want to adjust Block Width and preview the results.
That’s it!
