Just some notes about Pixeling in Photoshop. I started doing graphics on the C64, so I am used to pixeling and still use it whenever I have to (or want to).

A few hints to make it abit easier :

1. You dont have to zoom in and out of your picture while working on it. Instead, you can use the “new window for” command to open a second view for a picture. Scale one to 1600% and one to 200% and you can pixel easily while seeing what it looks like on the second view.

2. You can define a pixel grid, see the screenshot. The grid will be visible only in the 1600%-view if you enable it there.

3. Use the “X” Shortcut, which switches background and foreground colour. Make foreground black, background white and pixel away. You can do atleast the outlines and be able to “delete” wrong pixels.

4. Obviously, the tool to use is the pencil with a size of 1 and “precise cursor” switched on.