You could load an image up in Photoshop, reduce the color depth and fiddle with the pixel diffusion slider a bit. Or you could get Pixatool, a brilliant app completely dedicated to tuning pixelated images to the finest and most authentic details. Line and contrasts are rendered so well there's often an uncanny suggestion of hand-drawing, and the dithering smokes what mainstream painting apps offer.
It's $30, with a free-of-charge demo version. There's more examples. Artists are sharing their work with the #pixatool hashtag.
Update: check out the new version.
Jan Hakon Erichsen is a Norwegian artist whose Destruction Diaries series chronicles his creation of a series of bizarre, whimsical and delightful machines for popping balloons and undertaking other acts of minor mayhem.
Wefail offers this charming collection of four banknotes, each featuring one of the four “horsemen of the apocalypse”, at least when it comes to the demise and presumed annihilation of Britain’s political stability. $50 a set. Four Wefail banknotes depicting the four horsemen: May, Rees-Mogg, Bojo and Thatcher. Early in 2019 I was asked to […]
The forthcoming album “Songs from the Bardo” is an exploration of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by beloved composer Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer/climate activist Jesse Paris Smith, daughter of Patti and Fred “Sonic” Smith. “Songs from the Bardo” will be released September 27 on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: Like a guided […]
If there’s one thing that stayed consistent through the last decade or so of tech industry turmoil, it’s the love affair between techies and Linux. There’s just a ton you can do with the OS, and its open-source format means you can customize your rig from the ground up. Apparently not content with that level […]
Accidents happen. And when they do, you’re going to want a dash cam for a second pair of eyes. At the minimum, a decent dash cam can save you vast sums of time and money in case of an accident. But a really good dash cam can do a whole lot more. Here are six […]
The field of data analytics is growing as fast as the internet itself. Self-driving cars, airline pricing, and huge marketing campaigns are all driven by the insights that data scientists can distill out of vast sums of information. Even with the help of powerful software like Python, it’s a highly skilled position. But those skills […]
