Due to popular demand, I’ve decided to create this tutorial to answer the many emails I’ve received on how to create the pixelated effect you used to see on the main banner at www.pixel2life.com when we were running version 1. Now here’s the part you’re not going to like. This wasn’t done in Photoshop! (You’re thinking OH NO!!!) As a few people already know, I do not use Photoshop for anything unless I really have to, as I am a Corel Photopaint Junkie. I’ve been using Photopaint since Christ was a cowboy, so I stick with it. Luckily, Photopaint and Photoshop are so identical, I’m sure you can re-create this effect in Photoshop without much trouble. So without further delay, let’s get on with the show. By the way, this is my first official tutorial ever, so hopefully I don’t botch it up too badly. You should have at least a beginner’s knowledge of Photopaint to properly execute this tutorial, otherwise some terms may be confusing. I’ll try my best to explain each step. Here’s the effect we want

Step 1: Our first step is to open up the image we want to edit in Corel Photopaint. For this tutorial, I selected a completely random image from Google’s image search that looked interesting (Don’t ask):

Step 2: I like to work with objects, so just for the sake of being comfortable, lets make this image our primary object by clicking on Object > From Background. On your Objects Docker, you should now see one Object or Layer for you Photoshop people If you don’t have your object docker open, you may do so by clicking on Window > Dockers > Objects.

Step 3: Select the new object by clicking on the image with the Object Picker tool (Type O if you’re not on it already by default) and then do a copy paste (I like to use Ctrl-C to copy and Ctrl-V to paste, but it’s up to you). You should now have two objects which are simply duplicate images.

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