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New digital theme and video explainers every month!

The festive countdown is on! Throughout December we’re bringing you puzzles from our Retro Gaming puzzle book.

BREAKING NEWS The best of pixels.cool is now available in paper form in our Big Book of Creative Projects!

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Festive Cracker #2: Nintendo DS Wordsearch

Get ready to dive into the world of retro gaming with our festive Retro Gaming Wordsearches! Featuring classic games, consoles, and facts - perfect for the retro gamer in your life!

Our Brand New Creative Projects Book is available now!

Discover the "Big Book of Creative Digital Projects" featuring step-by-step guides for design software. Perfect for gifting this festive season!

Festive Cracker #1: Commodore 64 Wordsearch

Discover our BONUS Retro Gaming wordsearches this December! 'These are the Retro Gaming Wordsearches you're looking for' - 70 puzzles celebrating classic games and consoles for only £4.99! Let's get Retro!

New month – New freebies and deals!

Discover the best creative asset deals for December 2025! From 'low poly' bundles at Fanatical to Black Friday at the Unity Asset Store, we've got you covered.

Don't miss our best from image editing month!

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 4 of 5

Let's add text to an image.

Image editing: GIMP explainer 2 of 5

Let's open, rotate and crop an image.

Image editing: PaintShop Pro explainer 1 of 5

Let's open, resize and save a logo image.

Image editing: GIMP explainer 5 of 5

Let's create a new image with a single-colour background.

Image editing: GIMP explainer 4 of 5

Let's add text to an image.

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 1 of 5

Let's open, resize and save a logo image.

Video editing: Premiere Pro explainer 1 of 5

Let's create a project, import video clips and save the project

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 5 of 5

Let's create a new image with a single-colour background.

Retro Pixels: The 2012 British Video Games Awards

Happy New Year and welcome to pixels.cool! Step inside to start learning and creating 🙂

A digital interface displaying a pixelated space invader design in grey on a transparent grid, with editing tools and options at the top and bottom of the screen.

Beginning 3D Modelling: Explainer 6 of 8

Learn how to 'Trace' a Space Invader in Kenney Shape to create a 3d object and export it in OBJ format. Perfect for beginners!

State of the art-ful AI: Happy Christmas!

Discover the similarities and differences between ChatGPT 4's photo description and DALL-E 3's generated image in our latest 'State of the art-ful AI' entry.