PlayDither- A web tool for 1-bit image dithering

Built a little tool for applying different dithering algorithms to images- hope it's useful for others!

PlayDither

Updated with a bunch more dither types, image adjustment, and a channel mixer for the grayscale intermediate:

wound up doing that as well!

greyscale methods
hue rotate, easy and useful!

Does the color mix slider work? it gives an equivalent effect for most things.

replace colours to get the two Playdate shades of grey rather than black and white

Hah, added that last night but hadn't uploaded yet, see simulate display in the Output settings.

The rest of these are good ideas and I'll pick at them.

Thank you I used your software for some parts of my game:
Sunday Lawd REEL 1 by Game portal.... (itch.io)

Great tool ! Thanks Potch for that !!

I had been struggling with a few tools and this is awesome and has beautiful results - thanks for the great work here!

Thank you do much for this great tool. It’s been a great help. Id there a windows version of it or an offline one?

Not a one-to-one analogous, but image editors like Photoshop, GIMP, and others can do these functions too. I can speak for GIMP:

  • Change image mode to indexed, select 1-bit palette, and pick a desired dithering algorithm.
  • Desaturate an image (there are multiple ways to do it) and apply Dither filter. It has another set of dithering algorithms than the previous step.

Thanks a lot. That’s very helpful.

Thank you for adding transparency support, it makes porting over tilemaps way easier!

Very, VERY helpful. Thanks.

Hello, thanks for the tool, from the dithering tools i've tested I like this one the most. Would you consider open sourcing the code, creating it as a PWA or desktop app with something like Electron or Tauri, or creating a CLI?