Pixel art saved from the web is usually enlarged, and often blurred or compressed on the way. This finds the real pixel grid and gives you the art back at one pixel per pixel.
Made on your device. Your images are never uploaded.
How it works
Choose, drop or paste pixel art that was saved too big: a screenshot, a download, a blurry JPG.
The size of the enlarged pixels is worked out for you. If it misses, type how many pixels wide the art really is.
Save the art at one pixel per pixel, ready to edit, or enlarged again with crisp edges.
Pixel Art Downscaler
Works out how much the art was enlarged, including sizes that are not a whole number.
Each pixel is read from the middle of its block, away from the smeared edges.
Optionally brings hundreds of near-identical shades back to a small, clean palette.
Everything happens in your browser, so your pictures stay on your device.
In detail
A 32 × 32 sprite shared online is rarely 32 pixels wide. It was enlarged to 320 or 512 so that it could be seen, and each real pixel became a block. Open that file in an editor and every stroke is ten pixels thick.
The downscaler looks for the places where colours change, works out the size of those blocks, and reads one pixel back from the middle of each. The result is the art at its real size, with its exact colours when the file was clean.
JPEG compression and screenshots turn one flat colour into dozens of slightly different ones. Choose a number under Clean up to bring the picture back to 8, 16, 32 or 64 colours, picked from the art itself.
Leave it on Keep as read for clean PNG files: their colours come back exactly as they were.
Pixel Art Downscaler
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 image and leave Real size on Find it. The line under the settings shows what was found, such as 512 × 512 → 64 × 64 px, and how large each pixel was.
Mostly, yes. The grid is still found through the compression, and each pixel is read from the middle of its block, away from the smeared edges. Use Clean up to restore a small palette.
That works too. Sizes that are not a whole number, such as a 48-pixel sprite stretched to 500 pixels, are found the same way.
Switch to Set the width and type the real width in pixels. If the picture has a border or text around the art, crop it first.
Yes. Choose 2×, 4× or 8× under Save as PNG to enlarge the restored art with crisp edges, or send it on to the Pixel Art Upscaler.
Open the restored sprite in Moriqa’s pixel art editor to fix details, recolour and animate it, free in your browser.
