Pixelating an image is one of the simplest and most practical things we can do to preserve our privacy or simply instantly evade recognition.

How to Create Pixelated Images or Make a Pixel Effect with Photoshop – Pixelate Photos

Those small colored dots that blur part or all of the image , hiding from view details that may be compromising or that the author of the photograph does not want us to see, such as the image on an identity document or names.

Basically, the process of pixelating an image consists of enlarging the pixels of a certain part of the photo , pixels are the minimum unit of information in an image and by enlarging these pixels, the image loses sharpness and definition, which results in that we cannot see the part of the image that has been processed.

The media often use programs to cut or place information with photographs or pixelated images, especially those that are dedicated to news, pixelate certain images so that the information they store cannot be clearly seen. This may be the reason why so many users are interested in learning how they can pixelate their images themselves without problems .

If you want to learn how to pixelate images, the first thing you have to keep in mind is that although there are various programs with which you can do it, Photoshop is probably the best of them .

Thanks to this application, which can be downloaded from its official website and will give you a trial period, you will be able to pixelate or collage any image in less than 1 minute without the need for advanced knowledge, so you won’t waste time.

With Photoshop you can not only hide part of the image but you can also enhance an image by placing or removing parts of the image, to improve the presentation as such.

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1. How to pixelate an image with Photoshop
2. How to pixelate the image with Photoshop mosaic

How to pixelate an image with Photoshop

Well, starting with this tutorial then, first of all we have to point out that although there are many versions of Photoshop and the more recent they are, they are also more complete, in this case in particular we are going to show how to do it in  Photoshop CS3 , being one of the versions that are easier to get on the Internet . However, in the many subsequent versions that exist, the steps to follow are really similar.

• Assuming then that you already have Photoshop installed on your PC, the first thing you have to do is choose the image you want to pixelate, and then open it with this content editing program as photographs or the like.
• For that you must go to File, Open,and select the folder in which the image is located, and then the particular image that interests you.
• Next you must go to the Layers tab, which is located in the lower right part of the screen, clicking there with the right mouse button, to access the blue thumbnail image, selecting the Duplicate Layer option .
• From then on, we’re going to work with the blue-filled layer, not the original one.
• The next thing will then be to go to the Rectangular Marquee tool, which is located in the upper left part of the screen
• Once selected, we are going to mark the area that we want to pixelate from the image
• Once the area is marked we go to Filter,and we choose the Pixelize option, and then we click on Mosaic
• A new window will open where you will see how the pixelated image looks, in case you have the Preview option active
• Save the changes, from File, Save, and you will have the pixelated image as you wanted

How to pixelate the image with Photoshop mosaic

In one of the previous steps we have pointed out that the Mosaic function is one of the most common when pixelating an image. In any case, you have to know that there are also others, with which you can customize your images . You will see that within the Pixelate option there are more alternatives, so you can play around with them if you want to achieve different results from the previous ones.