PIXEL

Browser-only pixel art tool. Vintage film looks and authentic pixel art for your photos — previewed live on your own image, rendered on your GPU. No upload, no account, no watermark.

Live at pixel.amoghbajpai.com.

Pick a look → adjust one slider → Save.

• Three tabs: FILM (87 looks), PIXEL (size, colours, pattern), MORE (texture, sound).
• Every option is a live thumbnail of your photo; hover on desktop previews it full-size.
• Hold the photo (or \) to see the original. ⚄ Surprise (Space) rolls a new look.
• Undo / redo, and the session survives a reload (IndexedDB + localStorage).
• The URL is the recipe (#r=1~px:8~pal:pico8~film:portra400.s7): copy it to share a look, never the photo.
• Saved PNGs carry the recipe in a tEXt chunk — drop one back in and the look comes with it.
• Save options: native ×1–8, or padded frames for IG 4:5 / 3:4, Story 9:16, square.
• Keyboard (optional): ← → next look, 1 2 3 tabs, F favourite, ⌘S save, ⌘K search everything, ? all keys.

• Block-average pixelation with adjustable size (1–48 px)
• 9 palette presets: Game Boy, GB Pocket, CGA, PICO-8, Sweetie 16, C64, Endesga 32, Mono, Original
• Dithering: none, Floyd-Steinberg, Bayer 4×4, Bayer 8×8
• Film: 81 film, camera, and print-process looks in six groups — colour negative (Portra, Gold, Superia, Wolfen NC500…), slide & cinema (Kodachrome, Velvia, Vision3→2383 print, CineStill 800T halation, Technicolor 2-strip), lab & decay (cross-process, redscale, LomoChrome Purple, Aerochrome, expired-roll lottery, faded '70s print), cameras (SX-70, Instax, Holga, disposable flash with LED date stamp, Super 8 gate), antique (tintype, daguerreotype, autochrome, cyanotype, platinum, hand-tinted), earth & auteur grades, and AFTERDARK — the IG-goth / underground-rap edits: NightShot IR camcorder, trail cam, thermal, VHS found footage, witch house, xerox zine, halftone, riso misprint, grunge angel dithers with misregistered plates and torn photocopy frames, cutout and gig-poster posterize, 1-bit, soft grunge '14, deep fried and CCD digicam (with burned-in REC / PLAY / trail-cam HUDs and real JPEG crunch).
• PS2 & PAINT: your photo as a PS2-era low-poly model ("sharp blurriness", after Gao Hang) — person cut out in-browser (MediaPipe selfie segmenter, self-hosted, loaded on first use), colour regions traced into straight polygons, each airbrushed with an edge-clamped blur, on flat red / lime / sky. Plus AIRBRUSH CANVAS (whole frame faceted), STICKER (cut-out, thick outline, cartoon sky) and IMPASTO (Kuwahara + raking light). One parametric model on the GPU with a CPU port: channel mixer, 12-band hue control, gray-ramp curves, split tone, halation, grain, vignette, leaks, dust, and print borders. PHOTO MODE bypasses the pixel stages for a straight film look.
• Export: PNG at 1×, 2×, 4×, or 8× nearest-neighbor upscale
• Privacy by default: every step runs in your browser. No upload, no tracking.

• Next.js 15 (App Router, static export)
• TypeScript strict
• Tailwind CSS
• Pure Canvas 2D — no image processing libraries

npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

npm run build

Outputs a static site to out/ ready to drop on any static host.

MIT — see LICENSE.

Palette PRs welcome. Add an entry to lib/palettes.ts with a clear name, source attribution in the description, and accurate hex values.

Sample photo: Chuck Norris, The Delta Force (1986) by Yoni S. Hamenahem, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized.