How To Make A Pixel

This tutorial will show you how to make a simple pixel art. So were going to Pixel a Heart. My sample is not the best but it gets you going on how to make a pixel with the knowledge of the basics.

Open a new image size 13x11,

• Outline: First you need to make an outline for your heart, so pick a color, go to your Tools Palette and click on the Pencil Tool use a size 1 which is the smallest you can use and do something like this:
  
• Yours can be different depending what your trying to make, the purpose is making the outline and getting it to look as much as what your trying to make, in my case its a heart.
• Coloring: Were going to shade the inside of the heart now, so pick a color that is a few shades lighter than your outline, use the Colors Palette to find that color.
  
• Use the pencil to fill in, because if you use the Paint Bucket it will go outside of the outline, and you do not want that.
  
• Shading: Now that you did the outline, and the fill in, now we need to do some shading, so pick a color even lighter then the color you filled the pixel in with, once again use the Colors Palette, by clicking on the Forground button .
  
• Were going to add one more lighter shade to make the pixel heart look even better, so use a lighter shade then you did last time and do something like this.
  
• Now that you are done making it, you need to save it so that the pixel is transparent around the sides, thats why we originally opened a transparent background, so to save go to File >> Save For Web, and make sure transparency is checked off.
  
• Thats it your done making your pixel.

  Source: here

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