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#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Nov 17, 2021

Well, is it a pixel-by-pixel copy of a gridded image you found online? Or did you convert a piece of art into PBN form? I do the latter all the time. In fact, it helps tremendously to have a source photo, to make your PBN art more true-to-life. :)

Pre-gridded image online; I added the color bits for ease of completion.

How do you pixellate a photo to a grid? I totally suck at drawing, but would love to have a tool to make good puzzles

@Bill/#3: My first few puzzles (the sports action poses) were done via this method:
- Create a new puzzle (guessing at the grid size, based on the size/complexity of the photo; some trial & error helps).
- use Windows Snipping tool to copy the entire grid.
- Paste the grid into GIMP (or PhotoShop, or your favorite image editor that allows *layers and *transparencies).
- Enable transparency for that pasted layer and select white as the color to make transparent.
- Paste the photo into the same image, and stack/layer it behind the grid. (Pro Tip: It helped me to make the photo super light so I could clearly see the grid in front of it.)
- Spend hours painstakingly determining which color to apply to each pixel that ends up being split, because the real world isn't made up of squares. :)

I tend to have the source photo in a separate window, and I glance back & forth. First I "draw" the image, then refine to make it solvable. It always makes me sad when I have to over-refine an image, because a good solve is just as important as a picture that looks just right.

Sg.trange! Fun to solve. No guessin

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