Turn a selfie, pet or holiday photo into crisp pixel art. Pick the grid size and colors, add grid lines if you need them, and download a PNG. Your photo is converted on this device and never uploaded.
Add a photo
Drop a JPG, PNG or WebP here, up to 10 MB.
Detail
Cells across
Colors
Converted on this device. Your photo is never uploaded.
Most people who convert an image to pixel art want one of four things: a free tool they can trust with a private photo, a retro look, a sprite at an exact size, or a grid to copy cell by cell. Each setting below is in the tool above.
There is no account, no credit cost, no watermark and no daily limit. The converter runs in your browser: the photo is read, averaged into cells and recolored on your own phone or computer, so a private family picture never reaches our server.
Keep the original colors for a mosaic look, or let the tool pick 1 to 64 colors from the photo for clean, flat areas. For a game look, map every cell to a 4-shade green handheld screen, a 16-color retro console palette or 8 shades of gray.
Choose a grid of 16, 32, 48, 64 or 128 cells across; the height follows your photo. The 1-pixel-per-cell PNG is then exactly that size, ready to open in Aseprite, Piskel or a game engine. Start from a square photo for a square sprite.
Switch on grid lines to get a chart where every cell is outlined, then count blocks for a Minecraft build or rows for a cross-stitch or fuse bead project. It is a reference image: we do not match bead brands or list color codes and quantities.
Every example below is real output from this converter. Use its settings to load them into the tool, then add your own photo or keep the example.
A border collie on green grass keeps its black-and-white coat, bright eyes and pink tongue at 48 cells across. Sixteen colors from the photo give clean, flat areas: a sticker, avatar or game sprite of your own pet.
48 cells wide · 16 colors from the photo · no grid lines
A fixed 16-color console palette turns warm lamplight, flowered walls and blue sky into bold orange, pink and navy, like a town in an old adventure game. Fixed palettes change colors on purpose; pick the photo's own colors to keep them.
80 cells wide · 16-color retro palette
With only four greens, detail has to come from the grid, so this one uses 80 cells across. The porch, windows, path and flower beds still read clearly, like a screenshot from a 1990s handheld game.
80 cells wide · 4-shade green handheld palette
Coarse cells, twelve colors and dark grid lines turn an amber perfume bottle into a 32-by-40 chart. A bold shape on a plain background is easy to count square by square for cross-stitch, fuse beads or a Minecraft wall; colors match the photo, not a bead brand.
32 cells wide · 12 colors from the photo · dark grid lines
Three steps, all on this page: add a photo, choose the detail and colors, download. The preview updates as you change each setting.
Drop in or choose a JPG, PNG or WebP up to 10 MB. A clear subject on a simple background gives the cleanest pixel art.
48 cells wide · 16 colors from the photo · no grid lines
Pick a grid width or a pixel size, then a palette. Fewer cells and colors look more retro; more keep faces readable.
Save the enlarged PNG to share or print, or the 1-pixel-per-cell PNG to keep editing in a pixel art app.
For an AI-redrawn retro game look, try the image-to-image generator. Or turn the same photo into a painting or a pencil drawing.
BeforeAfterDescribe the change you want and turn any photo into anime, watercolor, a product ad or a whole new scene.
Restyle a photo
BeforeAfterTurn a pet, a wedding photo, your home or a trip into a painting to hang, frame or give, with the face still recognizable.
Paint my photo
BeforeAfterTurn a family photo, a pet or a favorite place into hand-drawn art to frame, give, trace or cut out.
Draw my photoCost, privacy, sprite sizes, palettes, downloads and crafts: what people ask before they convert a picture to pixel art.
Add the photo above, choose how many cells it should have across (or a pixel size), pick a color option and check the preview. When it looks right, download the PNG. Every change redraws in a moment, so it is quick to try 32, 48 and 64 cells and compare.
Yes. It is free, with no account, credits, watermark or daily cap. Photos can be JPG, PNG or WebP up to 10 MB. Very large photos are first scaled to 2,048 pixels on the long side, still far more than any pixel grid needs.
No. The page decodes the photo and builds the pixel art in your browser, on your phone or computer. The image is never sent to FromImage. We only count that a conversion or download happened and which settings were used, never the picture or its file name.
This converter is not AI. It averages each cell and maps it to a palette, so your photo's shapes and layout stay exactly in place. AI image tools, including ChatGPT, redraw a picture in a pixel art style instead: cleaner outlines, but invented details. Our image-to-image generator does that kind of redraw.
Choose Grid width, then 16 or 32. The height follows the photo, so crop it square first if you need exactly 32×32. Then use Download 1 pixel per cell: the PNG has one pixel per cell, ready for Aseprite, Piskel or a game engine to scale up with nearest-neighbor.
Classic sprites use 4 to 16 colors and portraits look good with 12 to 24; Original colors gives a photo-like mosaic. Colors from the photo picks the 1 to 64 most useful shades in your image, while the fixed palettes recolor everything on purpose.
Download PNG gives an enlarged image where each cell is a square block of whole pixels, about 1,200 pixels on the long side, with grid lines if they are on. Download 1 pixel per cell gives a tiny PNG with one pixel per cell, for editing or scaling up elsewhere.
Yes, as a reference. Turn on grid lines, keep between 8 and 16 colors and count the cells. It does not make a bead or thread pattern: there is no matching to Perler, Hama or DMC colors, no symbols and no shopping list. Pattern makers built for those crafts do that part.
No. Each cell is one flat color, the way most hand-made pixel art looks, which keeps grids easy to count. Dithering mixes dots of two colors to suggest a third; this converter does not offer it yet.
JPG, PNG and WebP up to 10 MB, in desktop browsers and on iPhone or Android. Transparent areas of a PNG stay transparent in both downloads, so a cut-out subject becomes a sprite with no background. Results are saved as PNG, which keeps every cell edge sharp.
