Creating pixel style avatar images with Photoshop

Most of today's game media aims to be of highest possible quality and realism but sometimes you want to have this pixel style look of games from the classic 16bit game era. Maybe you want your game to look oldschool with intention or you are not very good at hand drawing you own images and nothings sucks more than using photographs in a video game! In that case this tutorial might be of interest for you.

Requirements:
 * Photoshop (preferably CS)
 * A suitable image of a persons face. The person should look straight at the viewer and it is of advantage if the image hasn't many small details but large homogeneous areas.

If you got all the stuff together let's begin: