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It was a simpler time. A time when computers didn’t have fancy graphics and candy-colored buttons, and if they wanted to show you a cranky green ogre, they didn’t use CG. They used our friends “|”, “\”, “/”, and “.” Miss it? Well pop in an Air Supply cassette and surf over to Photo2text. Upload a photo and shiny metal robots turn it into in-stant ASCII. Retro-spiff. High-contrast photos work best, and your file has to be smaller than 200K. Make a few high-tech adjustments, then take it low-fi at Photo2text. Convert Photos to ASCII Art at Photo2Text p.s. Want more ASCII art? Check out Christopher Johnson’s ASCII Art Collection, featuring the always-popular “Naked Ladies” section [Maybe not safe for work.. but people, it’s ASCII!] And don’t miss the ASCII Art Dictionary or Joan Stark’s ASCII art. If that last page doesn’t take you back, nothing will. It uses java!! p.p.s. Mac user? Check this out: you can play Quicktime movies as ASCII movies! Photo Credit: Reluctant Suburbanite → See more Photo projects, DIY ideas, and Gear ← → Get it all free: Subscribe by email or RSS ← De-Pixelize Your Photos Instantly with VectorMagic How Big Can I Print This Photo? — A Simple Answer, Once and for All Photo Project: Tell a Story With Your Photos |
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Pingback by Turn Your Photos into Gibberish — How to Convert Photos into ASCII Art at Imaging Insider — May 28, 2007 @ 8:18 am
[…] Photojojo—a great site filled with tips not about photography but about neat things to do with photos—has a link to a service that can turn any photo into ASCII art. I don’t think this is new, but it’s cool nevertheless. However, I was struck by something in the post about the “old-skool” days of ASCII graphics: It was a simpler time. A time when computers didn’t have fancy graphics and candy-colored buttons, and if they wanted to show you a cranky green ogre, they didn’t use CG. They used our friends “|”, “”, “/”, and “.” All true, of course. But to kick it really old skool, you’ve gotta do ASCII art the way I first learned it, back in I.S. 180: By hand on a manual typewriter. Doing ASCII art this way was incredibly tedious, since you basically had to type in rows of characters based on an instruction sheet. Make a mistake and you were toast (well, there was always Ko-Rec-Type). But the end results were great, and made it worth all the tedium. Sure, just a few years later, the technology to do this instantly and effortlessly would be available to just about anyone. But back in the day, the idea of typing a sheet of random characters and having it turn into a picture of Charlie Brown or a Thanksgiving turkey was amazingly cool. That, and it let the typing teacher kick back and not have to teach us anything new for a few lessons each term. […]
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