Slight Question Regarding Paint.NET

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And here it is as followed: How do you make a 2x2 pixel sprite become 8-bit with Paint.NET? I was wondering coz... well... I'm making this crap joke level purposely with eye-bloody graphics. Thanks in advance.

[Shadow Yoshi]

Do you mean just condensing similar colors into one? You could try that by lowering the brightness and increasing the contrast.

[silent_]

Do you mean just condensing similar colors into one? You could try that by lowering the brightness and increasing the contrast.

Sorry but no, I mean like how the NES SMB1 GFX looked. After changing it to 8-bit, I know how to make the colors look horrible, I'm just anxious to hear about making the GFX simply 8-bit.

[Shadow Yoshi]

I don't think there's any way to "make something 8-bit". You can always look for color palettes that have the colors you want and just recolor the graphics yourself, but there's no such thing as an "8-bit button" or whatever.

[Valtteri]

You could take a 8-bit sprite sheet, pick colors from it and color similar colors in the 16-bit sprite the same thus taking away colors. An 8-bit sprite has three colors, when a 16-bit one can have ten or similar.

[silent_]

I see what you two are saying and I appreciate the feedback, but how would I make for instance Larry Koopa and make him all colored square pixels instead of 2x2 pixels? That's my prime question that's particularly confusing me.

[Shadow Yoshi]

colored square pixels instead of 2x2 pixels

What does this mean?

[silent_]

colored square pixels instead of 2x2 pixels

What does this mean?

Maybe the term "colored" threw you off. I meant that instead of a 2x2 pixel SMB3-styled Goomba, how I could change it to 8-bit pixels without struggles.

[Shadow Yoshi]

The pixel size has nothing to do with its bit depth, in this case.

"2x2 pixels" just means that every pixel in the graphic is 2 actual pixels high by 2 actual pixels wide (or, in other words, resized by 200% from the original graphics on the SNES). Unrelated to the colors.

[FallingSnow]

As they both said, there's not easy way to do this with Vanilla Paint.Net. I don't recall if there is a plug-in that can do exactly what you want. The closest thing would be Posterize (found under Adjustments or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+P), which produces effects like this:

npc-122 poster.gif

npc-8 poster.gif

[silent_]

As they both said, there's not easy way to do this with Vanilla Paint.Net. I don't recall if there is a plug-in that can do exactly what you want. The closest thing would be Posterize (found under Adjustments or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+P), which produces effects like this:

npc-122 poster.gif

npc-8 poster.gif

That tab satisfies me perfectly, I appreciate the help. This could be locked whenever now.