Getting started with PixelLab

Open Aseprite and select Create 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

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

Click Back and then Cancelto return to the main menu and then, select Inpaint.

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. The model can only modify the black parts, anything else will be left unchanged.

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

Notice in the settings image that we now use our generated image as init image. We'll lower the Init image strength slightly which gives the model more freedom to change the image. We'll set the output method to Modify current layer so that the changes are applied directly to the image. Then we'll click Generate again.

This time, the output looks like this:

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. After drawing a rough sketch of a fireball hovering above the character's hand and then inpainting the area it should look something like this: