Pixel Art

What this effect is

Real pixel art is not a downscaled photograph — every pixel is placed by hand and the palette is deliberately capped at a few dozen colours. The craft lives inside that limit: building gradients out of dithering and fitting a recognisable face into sixteen pixels.

How it runs

Model

flux-kontext-pro

Mode

Image edit

You bring

One image

The prompt we send

You can edit this text before generating.

Redraw the subject as hand-placed 16-bit pixel art. Restricted palette of a few dozen colours, dithered gradients, crisp square pixels with no anti-aliasing, readable silhouette at small size.

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