Gimp - How to Resize Pixel Art Without Blurring (Simple)

Gimp - How to Resize Pixel Art Without Blurring (Simple)

Greetings, in this quick Gimp tutorial we shall be looking at how to resize pixel art without blurring it. We can use nearest neighbour scaling to accomplish this.

With nearest neighbour scaling, when you increase the size of an image, the image-scaling algorithm needs to create new pixels to fill in the gaps that are created. The way the Nearest Neighbor algorithm does this is very straightforward: for each new pixel, it simply copies the color of the nearest existing pixel.

For example, if you were to scale an image to twice its original size, each pixel in the original image would turn into a 2x2 square of pixels in the scaled image, all with the same color.

Pixel art is generally low-resolution and made up of big, blocky pixels. These pixels often represent details like character features or outlines. If a scaling method were to create new colors to smooth out the transitions between these pixels (like bilinear or bicubic interpolation methods do), the result would be a blurred image.

Nearest Neighbor, however, preserves these details by avoiding the creation of new colors. It keeps the hard, blocky pixels that are characteristic of pixel art, making it an ideal choice for scaling such images.

Thanks for watching this pixel art tutorial on how to resize pixel art using nearest neighbour scaling to prevent the pixel art from blurring using Gimp.

Gimp - How to Resize Pixel Art Without Blurring (Simple) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvdNhfXmSlw