How to Pixelate Photos with Microsoft Paint

would you like to know how pixelate photos with Microsoft PaintIn mid-2017, Microsoft announced that Paint would become a “obsolete function"To Windows. It may not be supported in the future and may not be included with new computers that ship with Windows.

Microsoft prefers Paint 3D instead, but that won't discourage people who have been using Paint since its debut in 1985. We invite you to stick with us as you learn how to pixelate in Paint with a few mouse movements.

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Method 1: Start pixelating photos with Paint

Microsoft Paint is not Adobe Photoshop CC, So you won't find any fancy pixelated filters. If you want to pixelate an image, all you have to do is resize the image several times. Just follow these steps:

• Step 1:: Choose "Archive" and later "Open» to bring the image of your choice into Paint.

• Step 2:: Choose the tool «Select» from the toolbar and click and drag to select your photo, placing a dotted border around it.

• Step 3:: Drag the anchor point at any corner of the photo to expand its size.

NOTE: :In addition to becoming larger, you will notice that the image also takes on a grainy, pixelated quality.

Method 2: Pixelate photos with Paint with even stronger tones

Whether you're going for a glitchy retro aesthetic or you want your image to look like a censored picture, you might want a little (or a lot) more pixelation from Paint. Don't worry, this classic software can do that too. To get an even more pixelated image you should do the following:

• Step 1:: Resize your pixelated photo to make it smaller by dragging the selection inwards and then make it larger once again.

NOTE: : Each time you repeat this process, the image becomes more and more pixelated.

• Step 2:: Make the image as small as possible before resizing it so it looks ultra-pixelated.

• Step 3:: Don't worry about losing your original photo, as clicking the "Undo» completely restores your photo to its original state, so feel free to experiment. When you're done, click «Archive" Y "Save»(Or«Save as» to preserve the original).

Why this works

This clever Paint trick almost seems too easy, but how exactly does the app pixelate photos? It all has to do with the image resolution.

Digital raster images, like virtually any photo on the Internet or your computer, are made up of tons of tiny colored squares called pixels. High-resolution images have more pixels per inch (PPI) than low-resolution images.

When you shrink the image in Paint, you reduce the number of pixels per inch in the image. When you expand it again, Paint is using the data from the small image and enlarging it to a larger size. The program can't add pixels to a low-resolution image, so you get fewer pixels per inch in a large space, resulting in large, chunky pixels.

Method 3: Pixelate photos with MS Paint

This quick one is a technique to use pixel censorship to preserve anonymity, dignity, etc. in digital images. You just need a simple image editor like MS Paint.

Part 1: Pixelate photos with MS Paint – Image shrinking

• Step 1:: Open the image with painting,which is usually found in Programs > Accessories > in the Windows Start menu.
• Step 2:: Use the rectangular tool Chooseto select the area you want to pixelate.
• Step 3:: Look at the bottom right of the window Paint, the dimensions of the area will be displayed as you drag the mouse. Select an area that is an integer multiple of 10 (see part 3 for more information).
• Step 4:: From this point on, do not touch the image or the toolbar on the right with the cursor; use only the Menus.
• Step 5:: On the menu Image, choose Stretch / Lean … (CTRL-W)
• Step 6:: Reduces the size of the area both horizontally and vertically. Here we are reducing the area 10 times by selecting 10%. By doing this reduction, there will be 100 times fewer pixels in the selection.

Part 2: Pixelating photos with Paint MS – The stretch

• Step 1:: On the menu Image, choose Stretch / Lean…(CTRL-W) again.
• Step 2:: Paint cannot stretch selections more than 500% (5x), so to grow the selection back to its original size, I need to stretch it to 500% and then repeat the stretch to 200%.
• Step 3:: If the end result is not what you wanted, look at what is not right, press CTRL-Z or from the menu Edit, choose Undoand start again.

Step 3: Pixelate photos with MS Paint – fine adjustment

These should be obvious: if the pixels are too large, you've shrunk the selection too much. If you think they should be half the size, shrink them only half as much.

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If the pixels are too small and do not darken the image enough, the selection should be reduced further. As stated above, if you think the pixels should be twice as large, reduce the selection by twice as much.

This is more subtle:

You'll notice in this series of images that the boy on the right is missing an eye. The original selection was 71 x 72 pixels reduced to 8 x 8 pixels – Paint has rounded it up to 7,1 x 7,2 pixels upwards. When this was extended back, the selection ended up at 80 x 80, slightly over the original size.

That's why the dimensions of the selected area are important. Look at the bottom right of the window Paint as in part 1, and select dimensions'Round' which will be easily reduced.

All that said, the effect will still work.

Conclusion

As you can see, this is how you can pixelate photos in Paint. Although it is not a tool like Photoshop, it can get you out of trouble. You just have to practice until you get the desired result. We hope we have helped you with this information.