I have made an Image 16 by 16 but when I export it it becomes completely blurry and not pixel like at all, how can I fix this?
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@asdf Hi, sorry this slipped under our radar. If you double click on the camera, you can change the dimensions of the output size and thus the resulting image.
As a tip, do not use the File > Export > Image > width & height options since this will upscale or downscale the images or video, and since Pencil2D lacks image processing algorithms it will become blurry.
If you want a 16 x 16 pixel image, you need to work at a camera size that represents that or else the exported image will not have the quality you are expecting.
If you want to upscaling a pixel art image I recommend using a different progrma like Krita, and use the nearest neighbour algorithm
This video discusses why the blurryness happens
This other video is a krita tutorial on scaling images properly.
An extra tip is that you should NEVER upscale or downscale in uneven increments.
For example your image would be considered at 100% scale regardless of the size you made it first.
So with that in mind, upscaling the image from 100% to 255% is a 2.55 factor increase, which will damage the pixel proportion and make any square look rectangular. Only upscale or downscale in full increments that are proportional so from 100% go to 200%, 300%, 600% etc.
If you want to downscale for whatever reason, always make sure you’re dividing by whole numbers that are divisible by powers of 2 (i.e 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc) . That means dividing by half 1/2 (50% the original size), quarter 1/4 (25%) 1/8 (12.5%) and so on.