Pixelated Effect
This is a very popular effect to use with images, and an even better addition for layouts or blends if you love making graphics.
Open the image you would like to use this effect on in your Adobe program, it can be a plain image or a blend. This is the image I am going to use as an example, feel free to save it to practice with.
- Now right click on the layer you want to pixelate in the layer palette and select Duplicate Layer in the menu that pops up, as below.
- Your duplicate layer should be above the original one, it will automatically be there, if not then move it by dragging it above the original copy. make sure your duplicated copy is active, meaning that is blue like in the image in the step above.
- Next go to filter > pixelate > mosaic, now you can adjust the cell size until you get something that looks okay for your size image. I used these settings.
- By now your image is looking very pixelated but were not done yet. There are two ways to getting a finished pixaleted effect and I'll show you both.
First way: Select the lassotool and then set the feather to 10, now draw around the parts of the image that you don't want to be pixelated, once you've finished doing that, go to edit> cut, you can continue doing that if you need to or you can go back and try again until the finished image looks something like this.
- If you didn't like how that came out then try this way:
Go to your layer palette and making sure the pixelated layer is active lower the opacity, just play around with the settings until you get something you like. I used 29% opacity on this example.
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