PixelHead Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Hi - When I make a small pixel art piece (120 px x 100 px) for example I can make a nice piece that looks quite clear on full screen in Affinity Designer. (This is supposedly because I am using a vector application). Anyway, when I export out at this dimension the piece is very small.. Understandably so! It is only 120 x 100. If I display this in HTML at say, 300 width, then understandably the image becomes blurry. However, if I look back at Affinity Designer and see that the art is very clear full screen, then I wonder how I can export a larger version that is still crystal clear (i.e. I want to save time making a smaller pixel piece rather than a bigger one*). I tried Document Setup and Rescale option (with larger dimensions) but this didn't seem to get the desired results on the exported file. * Admittedly I could make a 1200 x 1000 document and use 10 px brush instead of a 1px brush, and adjust the grids (somehow) to a minimum size of 10px squares. Anyway, can anybody tell me how I can export a crystal clear 120 px x 100 px Pixel Art at a larger image size (e.g. 600 x 500 px) and then see crystal clear results just like the vector art I am looking at in Affinity? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Duplicate? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelHead Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 Hi - It seems it is a duplicate, I think there was a problem when logging in - or with the CAPTCHA I can try and delete that one. Can anybody help with my question in any case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medical Officer Bones Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Scale up your art by a decimal factor and use nearest neighbour as the resampling algorithm. PixelHead 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 So the art is vector until you export it, Use the Export Persona to specify a scale. PixelHead 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 I just created a small (150px by 100px) logo in Designer, then exported it as a .png, entering 1500px and 1000px in the size boxes. Is this sharp enough for you? John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelHead Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 1 minute ago, John Rostron said: I just created a small (150px by 100px) logo in Designer, then exported it as a .png, entering 1500px and 1000px in the size boxes. Is this sharp enough for you? John Hi John, Thanks for your reply. I'm wondering if this is the same scenario - I have actually done a pixel 1px brush graphic, when exporting at larger PNG it doesn't seem to give me a sharp result.. I'm wondering if what you've got here operates differently when exporting at larger size. I will try the above and see if they work. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelHead Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) Okay. So I think I've found the easiest way. If I set 'Nearest Neighbour' for png on export it seems to be able to work perfectly at any size. 1) Png normal 2) png8 Dither 3) Nearest Neighbour Edited March 29, 2020 by PixelHead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelHead Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 52 minutes ago, Medical Officer Bones said: Scale up your art by a decimal factor and use nearest neighbour as the resampling algorithm. Great yes. The Nearest Neighbour was the key. You answered it before I got there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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