Getting started with PixelLab

Open Aseprite and select Generate image (style) from the menu.

PixelLab opens automatically when you start Aseprite but if it is closed then you can open it again through the menus:

Edit > PixelLab > Open plugin

or by pressing,

ctrl + space + p.

It's usually a good idea to start from an init image. The init image is optional but it is one of the best ways to improve the results you're getting from PixelLab. You can start from a very rough sketch like this:

We'll use the following settings for the generation:

• Description: Human mage
• Use init image: Yes
• Image size has been deprecated. Use a rough init image or a draw a shape with inpainting to control the size instead.

Everything else was left as the defaults you see in the image. Let's click Generate!

Click Back to return to the tool options and then, select Use inpainting.

This will create a new layer on top of the generated image that we can use to paint black over the parts that we want to change.

Let's try to fix the head first, this is how my image looks after painting over the head in the inpainting layer,

Notice in the settings that the newly generated frame is now the init image. We'll lower the Init image strength slightly to make the model care less about this image and then click Generate again.

This time, this is the output,

Ok, now that we're satisfied with the head let's try to fix the hand as well. This time let's combine both inpainting and init image.

We'll modify the image slightly and then paint over the area around the hand in the inpainting layer. This is how it should look:

We have drawn a rough sketch of a fire hovering above the character's hand.