Pixel Art Converter - Image, GIF and Video to Pixel Art

Pixel Art Converter turns an image, an animated GIF or a short video into pixel art with a fixed palette and dithering.

It runs right here in your browser. Your files never leave your computer.

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Convert

• Images, GIFs and videos. Drop a file, paste an image, or pick a video and the part of it you want. Animated GIFs stay animated. A video becomes frames you can export as a GIF, a .zip of PNGs or a spritesheet.
• Palettes. 13 classic ones (PICO-8, Game Boy, NES, C64, CGA/EGA, Sweetie 16 and more), 36 popular ones from Lospec built in with the author credited, any Lospec palette by name or link, your own .pal / .gpl / .hex, or a palette taken from the image. You can edit a palette and save it as .pal.
• Dithering. None, ordered 2x2, 4x4 and 8x8, Floyd-Steinberg and Atkinson, with a strength slider.
• Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma, sharpen or blur before the conversion.
• Export a PNG at 1x to 16x (nearest neighbor, so the pixels stay sharp), copy it to the clipboard, or convert a whole folder of images into one .zip. Presets are saved in your browser.

For game assets

• Remove the background. The color comes from the edges of the image, or pick your own, with a tolerance slider. Remove only what touches the edges, or that color everywhere.
• Outline. 1 px, outside or inside, with or without diagonals.
• Game sizes. RPG Maker MV/MZ (tile, character, face, icon), 16 / 32 / 64 / 128, and the PICO-8, Game Boy, NES and GBA screens. Stretch the image, fit it inside with transparent bars, or fill and crop.
• Spritesheet. Frames from a GIF or a video go into one PNG, with a JSON file in the Aseprite hash format. Choose the columns and the gap.
• Fix fake pixel art. For pixel art that was scaled up (or came out of an AI image generator): the tool finds the real pixel grid and snaps the image back to one color per block.

Extras

• Screen effects: scanlines, RGB mask and vignette.
• ASCII: copy the result as text or download a .txt.
• Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and German. Found a mistake in a translation? Leave a comment.

Good to know

• Screen effects go into the PNG, Copy and Frames, but not into the GIF (a GIF cannot hold the extra colors).
• Fix fake pixel art needs hard-edged blocks, like a nearest-neighbor upscale, even if it is blurry or noisy. A smooth (bilinear) upscale has no edges to find, and the tool says it found no grid.
• Videos: the browser has to be able to play the file. Up to 300 frames at a time, longest side 640 px.
• Output up to 1024 px wide or tall. Input up to 4096 px.
• Nothing is uploaded. The only request the tool makes is to lospec.com, when you import a palette by name.

Credits

The built-in palettes are from Lospec. Each one shows its author and a link when you pick it.

Need a pixel font for your game? My page has a few, and there is also a PICO-8 Font Converter.