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# Beez!
Total tj that's also a massive longshot:
Ages ago I managed to get a corrupted pixelly kind of effect in Paint Shop Pro for some wallpapers. There's one of them here. I want to recreate the effect now but I have no idea how I did it. Does anyone have a clue what I might've done? I think I probably started out with 32x32 pixellated stuff like this but dunno how I got from that to the final look. It's driving me mad experimenting with everything I can think of!

Edit: figured it out now, thanks helpful people :)
These are the steps here if anyone fancies trying it in other image apps or messing around with it
Edit2: Although I missed of the last step...whacking the contrast up to full so it's just black & white
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sat 14 Aug 2010, 23:38, archived)
# I'll have a try...
does that include the slightly warped look of it or just the pixely bits?
edit: i give up, this is more complicated than I thought.
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Sat 14 Aug 2010, 23:40, archived)
# Ta for trying
but see below, I think I've got it. Although I'd be intrigued to know if it comes out like this in Photoshop or other graphics programs.

Edit: And now I will write down the method, so I don't forget in future :)
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sat 14 Aug 2010, 23:50, archived)
# Ah, never mind, I think I've got it
I was wrong about starting with the pixelly bits.
Just start with 50% grey noise, overlay a very faint gradient, pixellate the lot, gaussian blur 8px then whack the contrast up to full. I think the corrupty bits are just down to PSP's crap blurring :D
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sat 14 Aug 2010, 23:49, archived)
# yeah I don't think you should end up with lines like that from a gaussian blur
what does it look like before you change the contrast?
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Sat 14 Aug 2010, 23:59, archived)
# Glad you've cracked it, I was getting nowhere.
Well, I was gettign somewhere, but I think it was in entirely the wrong direction... i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu188/MadisonRose/tangyspixelscubism-1.gif
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sun 15 Aug 2010, 0:03, archived)
# I like that
looks like someone's spilled the salt :)
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sun 15 Aug 2010, 0:26, archived)
# Shitflies.
To match/riff his monocular animals.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Sat 14 Aug 2010, 23:55, archived)
# :(
Shitbeez?
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sun 15 Aug 2010, 0:24, archived)
# Not recently.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Sun 15 Aug 2010, 0:30, archived)
# maybe you didnt start with those pixels
and instead started with one of the brushes or spray brushes and made it really zoomed in?

edit - some pencil tools in photoshop made big gives you the weird corruptions

https://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/21672/1683235992/KMnUX.png
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Sun 15 Aug 2010, 0:04, archived)
# Ooh interesting
I've not tried messing around with zooming in on things, will have to have a tinker.
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sun 15 Aug 2010, 0:28, archived)