Turn any image into a Minecraft texture or pixel art, free

Sometimes you already have a picture: a server logo, a drawing, a photo of your pet. You want it as a Minecraft texture or as pixel art, with a limited palette and real small pixels. The free converter on this site does that in your browser, with no account and no upload to a server.

What the converter does

1. It reads your picture and optionally removes a plain background.
2. It crops to the subject and fits it into a square.
3. It shrinks the picture to the size you choose, from 16 by 16 to 128 by 128, by averaging each pixel area.
4. It reduces the colors to a palette size you pick, so the result looks like pixel art and not like a blurry thumbnail.
5. It can blend the edges so the picture tiles, which is useful for block textures.

Which pictures work best

• Logos and icons with a plain background convert cleanly.
• Drawings with bold shapes work better than photos with fine detail.
• Simple subjects centered in the frame, like one object or one face.
• High contrast images keep their shapes after shrinking.

Photos with lots of detail will turn into soft color patches at 16 by 16. That is not a fault of the tool, it is what happens when you remove 99 percent of the pixels. Use 64 or 128 for photos.

Settings to try

• Size: start with 32 for icons and 64 for portraits.
• Colors: 12 to 24 for items, 32 to 48 for pictures.
• Remove background: on for logos and objects, off for scenes.
• Tile edges: on for block textures only.

Privacy

The converter runs entirely in your browser. The picture never leaves your computer and nothing is stored. When you are happy with the result, you download it as a PNG, or as an enlarged PNG that keeps the pixels sharp.

When to use the AI generator instead

The converter changes a picture you already have. If you do not have a picture, or you want a texture in the Minecraft style from a sentence, the AI generator creates it from your description and then runs the same pixel conversion. You can also generate an AI picture and then fine tune it in a pixel editor.