: Wanted: photoshop filter for free-hand glyph to simulate anti-aliasing I want to draw a letterform free-hand, simulating an aliased character and I would like to then apply a filter so it looks

@Nimeshi706

Perhaps Photoshop's Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic.. and a low "cell size" may be what you are after. I'm really just guessing here without seeing sample images.

.. and I have no clue what "real rasterized character" means. If it's pixel-based art, it's already raster. I don't think there is such a thing as "fake" raster.



Edit: this filter works on type too. It isn't restricted to using a specific source.

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@Kaufman565

Your question is a little tough to understand. When you say character, do you mean you're hand-drawing letters? Or you're drawing a portrait of a character, like for a video game?

From what I understand so far, it sounds like you used the pencil tool to draw a picture, and now you want to make the image look like it was drawn with smoother tools, like a brush.

If that's the case, you'd probably be best off re-drawing it with a different tool, or outlining it as a vector.

If it's a grayscale image without transparency, like hand-drawn letters or outlines, you can sometimes get away with blurring it with any tool (the Gaussian blur filter is handy) and then reducing it back down using either contrast/curves/levels or the unsharp mask filter. This doesn't lead to a natural look for artwork though.

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@Holmes874

A picture would really help here, but if the goal is to make it look like the 8-bit era of video gaming, you don't want a filter, but rather simply reduce the resolution of your image drastically.

But note that that is not how most 8-bit art is created. Most of it is drawn pixel-by-pixel to best accommodate the low resolution.

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