Pixelate Pictures

Digital pictures are sometimes too big to store in a memory. Or maybe you want to pixelate a picture for the fun of it. Follow the instructions for your pixelated picture!

Steps

  1. Open Microsoft Picture Manager
  2. Select picture you want to pixelate.
  3. Compress Picture by clicking on Edit Pictures... > Compress Pictures
    • You will get an option for: Don't Compress | Documents | Web pages | E-mail Messages.
Compress Options Details
Note Compressed size (in pixels)
Don't Compress Does nothing Does nothing
Documents Not for photographs and high quality pictures 1024 x 768
Web pages Fast loading for web pages 448 x 336
E-mail Messages Thumbnail display, fast loading for e-mail messages 160 x 120

To make the picture even more pixelated, save the picture and resize it to 50%, on Edit Pictures... > Resize, then, save, and compress the picture.

  1. Finished.

Tips

  • To make the picture even more pixelated, save the picture and resize it to 50%, on Edit Pictures... > Resize, then, save, and compress the picture.
  • Adobe Photoshop also works

Warnings

  • If the picture is too pixelated, no one will be able to tell what it is.

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