Retro Diffusion is a community-developed extension that integrates Stable Diffusion AI models directly into Aseprite, the popular pixel art editor. Unlike standard AI image generators that produce high-resolution, anti-aliased images, Retro Diffusion is fine-tuned to output indexed color, low-resolution pixel art (typically 64x64 to 256x256 pixels) with hard edges and limited palettes.
It allows pixel artists to:
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Retro Diffusion supports img2img mode:
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