Enlarging Minecraft Textures [Photoshop Tutorial]

May 20th, 2015 • 5/20/15 4:04 pm

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TheLiterateDinosaur
Lvl 9 • Apprentice Artist

THE ISSUE

When designing graphics for Minecraft related projects, I'm sure that you've run across the problem of using textures from the game. You try enlarging/shrinking the texture, and it starts to look blurry... Below is an example of what I mean:

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THE SOLUTION

Solving this issue is actually rather simple. All you have to do is mess with some settings in Photoshop to allow you to resize pixelated images without making it less pixelated.

STEP 1

Open up your texture in Photoshop. I will be using the book from the Conquest resource pack.

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STEP 2

This texture is way too small for you to use... So now, you press ALT+CTRL+I at the same time, which opens up the image size window.

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STEP 3

Once there, you need to set the size of the image to your preferred size. I will be setting it to be 500x500. Once you do that, go to where it says "Automatic" and change the setting to "Nearest Neighbor (hard edges)" and click OK.

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FINISHED

There you have it! The texture will be the size you set, without losing any quality. You can do this with any resource pack texture, so get going!

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Lautner

• 12/19/2019 2:22 am

• Level 1 : New Explorer

Thank you! This helped! <3

LuxLacis

• 05/22/2015 11:58 am

• Level 42 : Master Fox

Great stuff! Simple but useful for people who don't know c:

anonpmc1665509

• 05/22/2015 9:17 am

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TheLiterateDinosaur

• 05/22/2015 10:31 am

• Level 9 : Apprentice Artist

Thanks :)

_Hybrid

• 05/22/2015 9:01 am

• Level 34 : Artisan Archer

Would have been helpful a few months ago. I wanted something like this! I found out myself though. Good tutorial though!

Fighterbear12

• 05/22/2015 4:33 am

• Level 58 : Grandmaster Musician

Now that's useful! Just need to torrent Photoshop or something first :/

TheLiterateDinosaur

• 05/22/2015 10:31 am

• Level 9 : Apprentice Artist

I'll see if I can find a way to do it on GIMP for you, that way you won't have to.

Fighterbear12

• 05/23/2015 2:33 am

• Level 58 : Grandmaster Musician

Oh? That'd be great. If it's the same method, then I'll just download GIMP and try it myself so you don't need to bother making a ne tutorial or something!

10Andrew

• 05/21/2015 12:50 pm

• Level 42 : Master Nether Knight