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Colour profiles and dither types for pixel art


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I'm interested in recreating digital art from the time when the colour palettes were very limited. I'd like to be able to customize my own colour profiles (of like 16 or 256 colours), or at least use some of the common ones from the 80's and 90's era. I'd alo want to experiment with different dither types to use them as visible effects in the image. The Posterise effect didn't seem to implement the kind of dithering I'm looking for. Are these kind of techniques possible at all in AD?

 

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I'm definitely no expert. And have limited experience in problems like this, and the Affinity apps. But for whatever its worth, here are my observations.

 

In Affinity Photo, under the Filter menu you have Filters - Colour - Monochrome Dither, and Web Safe Dither options. The dither patterns are not the same as your example though. I am not sure if a combination of posterize, or threshold would offer different outputs when used in combination with the dither options.

 

I have seen some other posted works where the creator did some very good dithering work, cartoon style. I believe they actually made vector patterns that they replicated and used. Another option I guess would be to make some pixel pattern fills based upon the patterns you show.  

 

Sounds like a very interesting problem. Keep us updated on your progress. 

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I found the "index painting" technique by Dan Fessler  invaluable for dithered pixel art looks. It works in Photoshop, Photoline, and Krita. Perhaps someone could check if the same setup can be done in Photo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU7_FVQpTSE

http://danfessler.com/blog/hd-index-painting-in-photoshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m_0DFcOPAI

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