Pixelate an image?

[zweetkonijn]

Hi guys,

Me and my girlfriend are moving in together soon.
And I want to give her the key to our house in a romantic way.

I'll attach the key to this print.
But I want the keys in the picture to be pixelated, to fit in more with the 8-bit background.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks guys!

 

[BlueInGreen]

Try some of the options under Filter > Pixelate. Mosaic should give a pretty decent result.

 

[Paul]

See above

 

[IamSam]

How about this version?

 

[Tom Mann]

When I need to pixellate lines like this (ie, in contrast to pixellating a contone image), my favorite trick is to down-rez by something like a factor of 8x (using the "nearest neighbor" (NN) option), and then up-rez (by the same factor, again using the same NN option).

This is what I did in the attached image. Obviously, I only performed this procedure on the part of the image that I was interested in, not everything. If one wants the drop shadow, that's an easy separate step.

Tom

PS - The change in color, color space, pixel dimensions, and watermark are all intentional. I will be more than happy to demonstrate that a particular effect is possible and teach the necessary Photoshop techniques, but I not do other people's work.

 

[sprucemagoo1]

I use the same method as Tom, but I convert to indexed colour, so I can choose 8 bit, but only when it isn't just a black outline of a key.