How to Make Pixel Art / Beginner Photoshop Tutorial / By Nick Casale

[@HUinstinct]

I really admire the way you teach. You've got a good pace, you gave outside resources, and didn't get bogged down with complexities. I'm definitely subbing, and can't wait to see what else you've got for me.

[@NickCasale]

HUinstinct thanks! Appreciate it :)

[@HUinstinct]

Oh and also I have to add; you're key shortcut callouts were incredibly helpful. It's insane how much time you really save just by knowing a few.

[@OgreSupreme]

Best pixel art tut on KZbin. Thanks for sharing!!

[@NickCasale]

Thanks! Glad you liked it

[@maydaze7370]

I really wanna say thank you so much for tutorial! I've been battling depression for the past year and I completely stopped doing stuff creative. I found your video through suggestions and you inspired me to give pixel art a try and now I just finished making a character. Thank you so so much! ♡

[@NickCasale]

Aww that's awesome, glad it helped!

[@ForboJack]

To get it to work properly I had to set the raster to 1.001 pixel or the pencil would be a tiny bit bigger than the raster (no idea why).

[@aavocadont]

ForboJack Thanks for sharing this, man. You solved my problem. :D

[@gustavodias2208]

ForboJack Thank you!

[@Yutuban1]

ForboJack Thanks mate!

[@danherbert8714]

+ForboJack Thank you so much

[@valentin9269]

+ForboJack I still have that problem can you explain more in detail how to fix it

[@CaiptionMinecon]

I completely skipped the last part without knowing that at the end, you will teach me how to resize and keep the blocky format, thanks for the video bud.

[@Cypherz83]

I swear this is the best basic entry lvl tutorial I have found to date thank you so much man seriously!!!

[@NickCasale]

Thanks jack!

[@L0rdEsedess]

I just came across this video & all I can say is KUDOS & Thank You! I will recommend this video to some friends that have been looking for a Tutorial just for this purpose.

[@emberhydra]

This video was amazing. Thanks for the help @Nick Casale. It helps a lot!!

[@NickCasale]

Ember Hydra Thx!

[@brynm8593]

Thanks for such a thorough and straight forward tutorial! I got it right away!

[@thefacelessbiz]

Killer Tutorial!!! I've been looking for this exact info for months, watched so many videos. This by far has all of the answers in 1 place. THANK YOU!!!!

[@NickCasale]

+J Carson thanks!! glad it helped

[@timwu9999]

you r amazing, for me, I fooled around with it fit the first time and didn't know what all of these was, but now I know more like half of these. best tutorial out there

[@NickCasale]

Thanks Tim!

[@TheEldorado1991]

GREAT tutorial. I think yours was the best one I've seen on KZbin regarding how to make pixel art. Very informative for everything I wanted to know. Cheers!

[@NickCasale]

Sweet! Glad you liked it, thanks.

[@n-evan]

You sir have a new subscriber. Thanks for explaining almost all the basics so easily.

[@chappy1835]

Greatest tutorial ever. Easy to follow along. I love you.

[@NickCasale]

Chappy why thank you! You're swell too, glad it helped out

[@NbaLive4ever]

This was the best pixel art tutorial in photoshop I've seen yet! Thanks!

[@NickCasale]

you're welcome, thanks for watching! hope it helped you out

[@mechtist]

This was so helpful as a beginner. Thank you so much. Now that I know the basics, I feel more prepared to tackle some bigger projects. Amazing video!!

[@eaglegamer5753]

This tutorial is perfection! Much appreciated for putting your care into this. :)

[@NickCasale]

thanks!

[@TannerWoodworth]

That game has been on my wishlist for ages... you convinced me to finally get it. Also, great tutorial! I was however looking for maybe some tips on shading though, but none the less thank you for the sweet up!

[@NickCasale]

Shading pixel art?

[@NickCasale]

What I do to shade is make a new layer right above whatever layer has the thing I want to shade, let's say a character for example, then set this new layer above to be a clipping mask, then I select the color I want to shade with (up to you, generally a darker shade of the color already in use), and paint. Because it's a clipping mask it will only appear over the character.

[@TannerWoodworth]

Thanks, that helps!

[@NickCasale]

Cool, hope so.

[@Sahfarry]

This is a great tutorial. You didnt include a lot of bs that people say in their tutorials that really could be skipped.

[@NickCasale]

thanks for watching!

[@VadascovinichRagen]

thanks, man. much more beginner-friendly compared to other pixel art tutorials! :D

[@annathenewt247]

Thanks for a great tutorial! I am actually suprised how easy it is :)

[@GraveyardDoll13]

This helped me create my first ever real photoshop art so thanks!

[@NickCasale]

Crista GraveyardDoll Renae awesome!

[@ReTeep_]

I just love pixel art! Thanks for this video!

[@ReTeep_]

+GamerJoonatan13 But I dont have photoshop...

[@ReTeep_]

***** Oh, thanks dad :D

[@ReTeep_]

***** Cuz you helped me

[@alexdavidson2327]

Hey this video was really helpful and I am proud of what I got out of it! I was using a PC so some of the default settings were off. But after looking around for about five minutes I fixed it. Great video, and was put into way much more detail then most of the tutorials and was at a nice steady pass for a beginner like me.

[@NickCasale]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching

[@lohksmedia5217]

most helpful art tutorial i've seen,ty you've earned another like

[@jackbrooks1995]

Really fantastic tutorial Nick! Helped me get to grips really quickly on what to do! Thanks a bunch :)

[@NickCasale]

no problem, thanks for watching!

[@osclass2827]

Thank you Nick! It's been tremendously helpful!

[@NickCasale]

***** Glad it helped! Thanks for watching.

[@WillytheWendigo]

You are absolutely awesome! I was able to apply all (or most) of your advice in GIMP, and my stuff turned out great!

[@NickCasale]

Sweet!

[@marieon5555]

Wow this is really helpful, especially the resizing part!

[@Ventus199811]

That tutorial is amazing! As soon as i get Photoshop, i'll be sure to try it!

[@NickCasale]

Almost 11k views! Only 2 dislikes?! Damn, thanks for the support everyone.

[@NickCasale]

***** I'm sorry you didn't find this extremely helpful, free tutorial useful, thanks for watching either way

[@karlhans6678]

***** lel

[@majidarifs]

***** Wrote a blog post about it. blog.majidarif.com/pixel-art/

[@NickCasale]

Majid Arif Siddiqui wow, thank you! Looks great.

[@crystallinocat9520]

42,000 now and still useful!

[@ClearButComplex]

Missing the example of the higher pixel count img @ 19:11.

[@NickCasale]

+Sam R Yikes, good catch, sorry about that! Hope it helped otherwise.

[@glitterypigeons]

I never did understand how the hell people get all these sharp edges and stuff in photoshop...seems logic ^-^ thank you.

[@sarahjohnston784]

This really helped. Thank you so much!

[@FoxyFernGaming]

Wow! I had never heard of the "kuler" thing before! Although since your video it has changed to color.adobe.com. It's so great. Thank you for recommending that site and also for making this tutorial. I'm wanting to get into pixel art as a hobby and this is just what I needed. :)

[@pillb03x]

Some great advice! Thanks!

[@Rokutomaru]

Really useful Nick, thanks a lot

[@YONS_]

Awesome tutorial Nick (y)

[@whosjoe6410]

My favorite thing to do with gimp and pixel art- is to make a 1080 720 pixels and zoom in really far so that you can see the pixels when you make a line and make it pixel by pixel. I love it XD

[@theodoregrader8270]

Please make some more Photoshop tutorials--I found this very helpful :)

[@crazycard]

Nice vid. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@NickCasale]

Thanks for watching

[@Larry]

Are there any swatches for a palette of a certain games system, like the NES or the Genesis Etc.?

[@NickCasale]

You could either go to kuler.adobe.com and search, or simply open any imagein photoshop and make your own swatches using the eyedropper tool

[@Larry]

***** Ah, excellent! Thanks for the info!!!

[@NickCasale]

***** no problem!

[@karlhans6678]

I think NES and SNES had limited amount of colors they could use?

[@FreyrFox]

wikipedia has an article that basically outlines complete swatches of colours for certain consoles.

[@Mgapcdev]

I don't wanna practice to get good, I want to be good now! xD

[@ImKyleConway]

The struggles real

[@stevenlrussell]

TheGaming Pie But I FUCKING WANT IT NOW!

[@stevenlrussell]

Btw are you good yet?

[@FeMiWi]

Great tutorial Nick! Helped alot :D

[@NickCasale]

Thanks for watching!

[@nonosh95]

this was an amazing tutorial..I swear everytime I come up with a question I want to ask next min you're showing it :O

[@NickCasale]

glad to hear it! Even though I'm "formally" trained I do come from a DIY background so I try to cover all the bases, Thanks for watching

[@zrksyd]

I use the scroll wheel to zoom, which can be found in the preferences.

[@mirandakiri]

This was SO helpful! And you have a very nice voice. Thanks ^_^

[@NickCasale]

thank you!

[@MrMentalBox]

Awesome video! Got my hands in Pixel Art just this morning, and you helped a bunch :) ty ! I was wondering, could you make a video on how you made that background with skulls, or any background for a sidescroller game?

[@NickCasale]

I'd love to and hopefully if I have time in the future I will, It's essentially the same process as this, just more refined. For example with the skulls I just used these techniques to make a handful of different styled skulls, then copied, pasted, and arranged them into a pile.

[@Camerabutnoideas]

Thank you for the tutorial, it helped quite a bit :)

[@cinamonstragedy1465]

Great tutorial! Thank you!!

[@wiktorzalewski223]

great video. helped me so much!!!! Thanks ☺

[@19terracottapie]

Veeerry very nice and helfpful tutorial. Thanks a lot! I have one point: when bringing separate characters to one bigger canvas you usually will not scale them individually, because they all together have to follow the same "pixel-system" which would be broken when you scale the octopus by 50%, maybe another character by 200% and so on...all the pixelt would differ from each other and that would just not be correct while "faking" a correct pixel art from past times :)

[@DeadlyGamingKing]

Loved it you do great stuff

[@boowilbury]

ThankS! nice video dude, now i'll watch the rest

[@NickCasale]

Juan Romero sweet!

[@TheLuNaMaStEr]

Thanks for the video nick very helpful!

[@element9jing]

Very useful tutorial! Thank you so much :)

[@NickCasale]

Jing Kittaya no problem, thanks for watching!

[@SolicitedCoyote]

Very nice video. Thank you for your help. I am an aspiring app developer working on a game mostly made up of pixel art and making my own graphics is a bit scary. This made it just a bit less :)

[@NickCasale]

Glad it helped!

[@kirstindunlop3053]

i love this video, very informative!

[@pixiedust7418]

Very clear and helpful, thanks! :)

[@NickCasale]

***** Thank you! Glad it helped

[@888Manatsu]

Thank you, this video is super useful!

[@punkmonk76]

cool video. thanks for the tutorial!

[@kiyonarii]

“And currently, mine is set to a really horrendous green” lol idk why that made me laugh

[@NickCasale]

Kiara Fire :)

[@paiges6999]

very helpful! thank you

[@TheOneSeer]

Edit > Preferences for those windows people out there

[@LandaPanda8]

Thank you!

[@Stawntsy]

Great tutorial!

[@iraalifia]

This is very helpful, thank you so much :D

[@mulletmelvin9840]

This really helped a lot!!

[@TheBranchan]

Thank you so much, really helped.

[@key_itis]

good video, useful. thank you!

[@JanaRadkevich]

This is amazing. Thank you so much

[@aloneking1995]

this tutorial is really amazing, i hope you will continue make video like this

[@NickCasale]

Thanks! Anything you'd like to see? I actually have some free time coming up later in the month

[@aloneking1995]

if you can i want to know more about coloring, scanning or even animation,, especially things like thunder strike effect, shining on armor (sorry for my bad english :D) those are really helpful for game making tool like rpg maker like character design, build eviroment, etc.. btw thank you for response ^.^

[@aloneking1995]

i just get into making pixel game so i willing to learn anything from you, teach me anything you know, it's been 2 since this video uploaded so i really looking forward to learn from a master with 2 years experience in pixel art, i have spent few days to watch a bunch of tutorial but your video still my favorite, no one teach with much detail as you do, i think you should have a patreon

[@mockingjaysplace]

thanks so much! This was really informative :)

[@Ziplock9000]

The Enterprise at 0:54 looks like it was a larger model scaled down due to the anti aliasing at the very back of the hull

[@98MrTaco]

Hey man! Please make more pixel art turtorials, maby show us how you made that picture in the begining:)

[@NickCasale]

Possibly, it really is just the same techniques applied on a larger scale though.

[@UntilTheStarsBurnOut]

Thank you! This is so helpful :)

[@lanahermana]

YOU ARE AWEEEESOMMMMMEEEEE!!! thank you SO MUCH for this video T.T

[@jebathoes]

OMG ! THANK YOU BRO ,I LOVE YOU ! YOU SAFED MY ''LIFE'' :D

[@NickCasale]

lol no problem anytime

[@maira8798]

Thank you! you are really didactic. really helpfull! :)

[@liannerice6183]

This really helped Thank you

[@fedebean]

thanks, you really helped me! Good luck with everything!

[@NickCasale]

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching

[@bobbutler6876]

YES! Other Mac lovers exist other than me

[@NickCasale]

Bob Butler of course! Mac is the only way to go for Adobe stuff IMO, although I haven't touched a PC in years, maybe they've gotten better

[@ItsMikeike]

Hold alt and use the scroll wheel to zoom easier

[@Titanic_401]

Can I get better at pixel art if I copy sprites? For example pokemon sprites. Can I get better if I copy those or do I have to make original pixel art and keep practicing? :)

[@PixeliSi]

Thnx! This was good and informative :)

[@saturnsenpai]

yes!!! thank you!! trying to get into a new art style :^)

[@Voffsing1]

Good video, thank you

[@josephines4117]

this is absolutely awesome! however, I need to practice my drawing way more lol

[@NickCasale]

This tutorial works fine on both Windows and OSX ;)

[@skaffoe_lobby]

+Nick Casale How to do that on Windows? 4:03 ?

[@skaffoe_lobby]

***** Thank you!

[@skaffoe_lobby]

***** Because of your tip, I could make my new pf :)

[@heavilybreathing9542]

+Joshua Meis Thank you! :)

[@idiotic2276]

how do you find preferences in windows.

[@hugosrnt]

from Colombia: thx for the vid

[@meezazamak7662]

Thank you, I like it.

[@NickCasale]

You're welcome!

[@crystallinecatrecords]

Thank you. Two questions if anyone knows... I load my jpg into Gamemaker and there is a white box around it. I thought it was transparent--maybe not? It has the grid on Photoshop. Also, what do you recommend as far as making the--I'll call it "hit box", the box in Gamemaker that goes inside a character and designates if HP will be taken away from the character. With a character with a flowing cape or long legs, for instance, it's not fair if you get hit because of the cape or the legs avoid getting hit.

[@huddledfalcon]

make it a PNG file, not a jgp

[@eyesack04]

Thanks homie, subbed

[@feathersong2795]

this helped ALOT thanks XD

[@LegitCharge]

if you want to find the prefences on windows, go to file then click down and look at the very bottom

[@joeygmc07]

Love the vid! I've been looking for a tut vid of taking an image for example the apple logo. I'm trying to learn how to take a image with fine line into pixels. Would I just follow the steps you showed on this vid? Could I place an image behind the grid and then just follow the line with the pencil tool?? I'm trying to take an image I drew and turn it to pixels

[@NickCasale]

yup that would definitely work

[@bryanherrera7928]

awesome bro

[@NickCasale]

Bryan Herrera thanks bryan!

[@virgilcanmakeplaylists6589]

Nearest Neighbour is life changing !

[@NickCasale]

Virgil Can make playlists sure is! Just don't forget to switch it back when you're resizing photos :)

[@puffins3282]

Extremely Helpful Learned a lot. But sadly i got very confused early on. not from lack of explaining but since i have windows. i dont have the photoshop beside file's. ( Also My photoshop is in a language i dont want.. so have to change that at some point to to make things a little less harder and confusing for me. Anyways sorry for wall of text in this comment, But would love if you had any idea where i could find the grid settings. Regardless Very Helpful Video.

[@KushBeats]

Thanks for this!

[@NickCasale]

Kush Beats welcome! thanks for watching

[@SamanthaRoyle]

I created my Channel art with your help, thank you!

[@NickCasale]

you're welcome!

[@liltwiggy2496]

how did you set the size for 8bit -> channel art size?

[@SamanthaRoyle]

bhowk I created the artwork using a 50x50 pixel canvas size in Photoshop as Nick does in the video, then opened a new document which has a 2560x1440 pixel canvas size, the Channel Art recommended size. (more info: support.google.com/youtube/answer/2972003?topic=16630&ctx=topic&hl=en) I then dragged and dropped my original artwork onto the new canvas and clicked Free Transform. Make sure the transform settings of interpolation are set to 'nearest neighbour' or else the image will transform blurry. If you have an earlier version of Photoshop than on this video the settings are in Preferences>General then change the settings at the top where it says 'Image interpolation' :) Hope that helps!

[@liltwiggy2496]

thank you! =D

[@tateovan9139]

it look cool!