Pixelator

 

I’ve had a little application (and I use the term in a very lose way) sitting on my hard drive that I thought I might as well unleash as someone might find it useful.

It came about because I was looking at making some new prints for our newly decorated living room. What I wanted to do was take a famous movie scene - in this case scenes from the orginal Thomas Crown Affair - the chess sequence and then make a “downsampled” large print - all from a small image. Now of course you can make pixelated images in Photoshop, but the difference with my little app is that when you click save it will export a PDF that you can then resize as large as you like without any loss in quality.

I warn you now it doesn’t like really big images, and the only way to choose an image is when it first boots up. This thing is very rough and ready but it kind of works. Yet another “not produced for use” waste of time!

processing, eh? nice.

patrick h. lauke /

Forgot to mention - if you press the up and down arrow keys it will increase the size of the dots/squares.

Bren /

wonderful find! you might enjoy a video i produced. i’m a pixel lover…

http://blueverticalstudio.com/go/?page_id=2962

cheers!

bv.

bv /

Bren,

exactly which arrow keys change the size of the dots? I’m feeling like the dumbest man on the planet ‘cuz i can’t figure it out.

also how do i export as pdf?

very much looking forward to receiving my 2001 print from coudal!

Cheers,
~Eric in SF

Eric P /

Hi Eric,

apologies - I need to properley write some instructions! You’re not dumb at all - it’s me for rushing this thing up without explanation. The arrow keys should be the up down keys on your keyboard. And as for saving you should just click the save button and a pdf will be exported into the same folder as the app. The app will quit when save is complete!

bren /

Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! yyvkdtfcaid

nwuobkyfga /

Sounds very similar to the rastorbator: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

Dave /

love the app!
any chance you’ll update it for os 10.5?
don’t seem to be able to change size of circles + squares anymore.

Jörg /

Glad you like the app. As for updating it right now its not top of my list but it may just be a case of exporting it again from 10.5 - I’ll try and take a look.

bren /

my fault. sorry. works just fine on 10.5 - should have re-read the comments (arrow up/down to increase/decrease)

Jörg /
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