Photos become pixel art
Stamped photos automatically pixelate to the canvas resolution. The res picker is the chunkiness dial.
A stamped photo is never pasted; it’s resampled into the face’s pixel grid. Whatever the Paint canvas resolution is (4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 pixels per face), that’s exactly how many pixels of the photo survive. The photo becomes pixel art, automatically, at whatever chunkiness you’ve chosen.
The resolution is the style dial
Tap the resolution label in Paint’s header before stamping:
- 8×8: the photo turns into a chunky icon of itself.
- 16×16: the sweet spot. Clearly pixel art, clearly still the photo.
- 32–64: fine enough for posters, box art, and diorama wall pieces that read at a glance.
Stamp the same photo at 8 and at 64 and you get two completely different art styles from one picture, and neither looks like “a photo pasted on a 3D model.”
Why it always looks right
Stamped photo pixels are ordinary paint pixels, so everything stays consistent: they export crisp (nearest-neighbor, no blur), they play in paint frames , you can draw over them with the pen, and erased spots go see-through like any other pixel.
For extra retro, run the photo through the dither first: dither picks the colors, resolution picks the chunk.
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