TXEL — Pixel Texture Tool

Painterly Pixel

Turn a photo into painted color patches with crisp pixels.

Noise reduction Off

Reduces fine grain before painting while keeping edges. Works with paint smoothing off, too.

Paint smoothing

Pixelation

Resolution 64

8 px1024 px

Downscale Filter

Filter

Averages all source pixels per output cell — clean, balanced.

Edge preserve

Crop & Rotate

Rotation 0°

−180°180°

Drag any preview corner to align your image. Hold Shift to snap to 15°; press Esc to cancel. Click the angle to type an exact value.

Fill empty corners

Zooms in to keep rotated textures covered. Turn off to keep the full image; use Preserve Source Alpha for transparent corners.

Square crop

Lighting Normalize

Even out lighting

Tiling

Make tileable

Blend method

Cuts along similar areas in overlapping edges. Good for wood, stone, and other detailed textures; trims some source content.

Cut softness 1 px

Low keeps grain sharp. Higher values soften the cut.

Blend width 25%

Pyramid levels 4

More levels give a smoother blend but take longer.

Cross-texture stamp

Stamps interior patches across tile boundaries, wrapping around edges to break up seams.

Lock opposite edges

Edge blend bias 50%

Edge feather 2 px

Matches color and transparency after all effects. Feather spreads the correction inward; 50% bias balances both edges.

Dithering

Algorithm

Dither strength 100%

Color Palette

Palette

Harmony

Adjustments

Brightness 0

Contrast 0

Saturation 0

Hue shift 0°

Tone Curve

Channel

Click the curve to add a point. Right-click a point to remove it.

Sharpen

Amount 0

Unsharp mask — makes pixel edges pop.

Noise

Amount 0

Type

Breaks up flat areas — mono is luminance, color is per-channel, dither is 1-bit.

Alpha

Alpha source

Threshold 50%

Outline

Enable outline

Threshold 30

Outline color

Drop an image here

PNG, JPG, BMP or WebP. Everything stays in your browser.

Choose image

Choose a utility preset to turn your image into a texture or sprite.

Image Info

Source

—

Output

—

Colors

—

Palette

—

Utility Presets

Uses your image’s colors. Click to apply; Undo to restore.

Shortcuts

↺ next to a setting: Reset to default
Double-click a slider: Reset to default
Click a value: Type a number
↑ / ↓ while typing: Nudge, Shift ×10
Ctrl Z · Ctrl ⇧ Z: Undo · Redo

Tips

Lower resolution: Chunkier pixels
Painterly Pixel: Paint-like patches
Ordered dither: Uniform pattern
Error diffusion: Organic feel
Small palettes: Pair with dithering
Outline: Sprite-like look