Turn any photo, drawing or logo into real pixel art, with the pixel size, colours and dithering you choose. Your images never leave your device.
Made on your device. Your images are never uploaded.
How it works
Choose, drop or paste a photo, drawing or logo. A whole folder works too.
Choose how many pixels wide it should be, how many colours to use, and a dithering style.
Save it at actual pixel size, or enlarged with crisp square pixels.
Image to Pixel Art
Every pixel is one solid colour, and enlarged copies keep hard square edges.
The best colours are chosen from your image, or use PICO-8, Game Boy or greyscale.
Pattern and diffusion dithering blend colours for gradients and shading.
Everything happens in your browser, so your pictures stay on your device.
In detail
First the image is shrunk to the number of pixels you choose, averaging each block of the original into one pixel. Then the number of colours is reduced to a small palette picked from the image itself, and every pixel is redrawn in its nearest palette colour.
The result is true pixel art: each pixel is a single solid colour, ready to enlarge without blur or to edit pixel by pixel.
From the image picks the best colours automatically. Greyscale, Black and white, PICO-8 and Game Boy force a fixed set of colours for a retro look.
Dithering mixes dots of two colours to suggest a third. Pattern gives the regular checkered look of classic games; Diffusion scatters dots for smoother gradients. None keeps flat areas of colour.
Image to Pixel Art
No. Everything runs in your browser, on your own device. Your images are never sent to Moriqa or anyone else, and nothing is kept after you close the page.
Add the photo, choose a width such as 64 pixels and a number of colours such as 16, then download the PNG. The preview updates as you change each setting.
Classic game sprites are 16 to 64 pixels across. For a pixel-art portrait or scene, 64 to 128 pixels wide is a good start.
By default the pixel art is enlarged close to the original size, with every pixel kept as a sharp square, so it looks good when shared. Choose Actual pixels (1×) to get the tiny original.
Yes. Choose Edit in Moriqa to open it in the editor, where you can fix individual pixels, add outlines and animate it.
Yes. Add as many images as you like; they all use the same pixel size and palette, and can be downloaded together as a ZIP.
Open Moriqa’s pixel art editor to draw, clean up and animate sprites, free in your browser.
