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Creating Minimal Pixel Art with Photoshop (Part 3)



Hi! Welcome to Part 3 of my Minimal Pixel Art tutorial. This is the last one of this series & should be fun. Today I'll do some random drawing with you, show some of my favorite techniques for easily making pixel forms that look like something in particular, and also explore some ways in which I draw the same subjects with varying numbers of pixels. I'll probably talk about other stuff as well. If you haven't read part 1 or part 2, it might be helpful to do so first.

I'd like to start off with a couple tools I haven't mentioned yet - the Line tool and the Paint Bucket tool. I'll also re-visit one that I've already covered, the Pencil tool, to show you a line-making feature that is very handy.



Exercise #9: Straight Lines


Contents
  Introduction
  Exercise #9: Straight Lines
  Exercise #10: Paint Bucket
  Exercise #11: Hue/Saturation & Levels
  Exercise #12: Playing With Pixels
  Exercise #13: Pixels and Colors
  Exercise #14: Tracing Existing Images
  Exercise #15: Saving Images as GIFs
  Conclusion

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The Series
  Part 1
  Part 2
  Part 3