ASCII-Art

I'll show you how to do great ASCII-Art the very simple way. Sorry for my bad English - I'm German ;)

Step 1: Choose a picture

Choose any image from the internet or from your desktop. It should have no background and not too much little parts. Comic-figures work best.
For this instructable, I'll choose Homer Simpson.

Comments

[Machine]

Nice job! Homer is my favorite cartoon character too.

Thanks for showing us.

[Computothought]

n linux:

$ jp2a -b --colors -i hs.jpg

Pictured is the html output version.

More info at: http://www.instructables.com/id/Graphics-in-a-text-world/

[kouraf16]

There is a better and easier way... http://www.allworldsoft.com/software/17-604-ascii-art-generator.htm this program works like candy! But of course it lacks the sweetness and rewarding from doing it manually :-/

[YellowBlu Co.]

text-image required no download and DOES NOT have limited features (unless your buy it for $30) BUT I must say, I do love the free draw feature :)

[J Moneyman]

http://www.text-image.com/

[YellowBlu Co.]

Wow! That works amazingly!

[mmzdaniel]

this is really cool! but there are programs who do it for you and they will usually do it better.

[rdsouza3]

can you temme some of those programs.....

[rdsouza3]

dis was very useful buddy!!!!thnXX
but can u tell me any software or any website dat can convert fb pics into ascii art so dat i can update it in my status!!!!!!

[yoshi1]

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[glugnar]

i couldn't fin out how to do it like ^^^^^^^^^ but i did it in color and without the picture overlay. Could you comment on how i did?

[kamibox.de]

Wow! Really great job!

[glugnar]

Thank you :D It took like 1 hour for each of them and now im proud :D

[Mplinnc]

Format graphics

[lgarzon]

this does not work on a mac... i cant get microsoft

[tagaiz]

Yes you can get microsoft word.

[j574sbi]

"Homer's Rapture in the Land of Chocolate"

[PhantomMan3000]

can any1 show me how ta do this on microsoft word 2007? its not da same as w/e dat microsoft is

[DuctTapeRules!]

I've always wondered how they do that! 5/5 Bad English? Your English is a LOT better than some people here, believe me...

[jeffconnelly]

Yeah, especially some of the younger kids (even with English as a native language)

[Oompa-Loompa]

I just set the picture to show behind any text and it is a lot more simple.

[QwertyuioLP]

I'm working on a game using this!

[lib7]

it won't let me click on text box what do i do? post back on my page thanksx

[HBF]

Or, alternatively, you could use an ascii art generator

[micropreemiemommy]

in English it says "Format picture" Additionally the textfluss tab is "Text Box" in english as well.

[Ferrite]

That looks really cool. It would be fun to change the color of the font.

[sona]

Lets not get too realistic now it's still only ASCII. Just lik I am still only human.

[Ora]

Eggman from The Sonic TV Show

[Closet_RAt]

This is SO much easier than havin' to do this by hand just by lookin' at the pic, that's what I do when I make/modify a piece of ASCII art...

[ongissim]

Good instructable! If you want an easier method of doing this, you can go to this website and it will automatically draw ASC-II art for you! I think your method is much better, though, because you can make your pictures to your own tastes.

[Ward_Nox]

this ones good cause u can do it 3 different ways html, ASCII and matrix(green Japanese characters) in the HTML setting u can pick what letters it uses and do black and white or color(you can do some neat stuff w this setting)

[schorhr]

Yey, more germans :-) Nette Anleitung!
Jave is written in... Java (who would have guessed? ;-) ) and at least version 4 is suppose to work with Mac OS.

http://www.jave.de/

I have not tried more recent versions on a Mac since I use windows at the moment. Jave6 rocks my socks. It even has a 3D ASCII Render engine ;-)

[thatkidej]

Nice method, but an even easier way is this! =]

[Ward_Nox]

yea unless your a mac user ):-< seriously if you know of a mac program that does this id apprisiate it *remembering evil overlord rule 20*

[thatkidej]

Here's a program for Mac.

A simple Google search pulled it up, first in the list..

[Ward_Nox]

DOH! didn't think to try a simple google serch

[thatkidej]

Hehe, it's cool dude. Enjoy =]

[crestind]

Cool trick!!

[wraith001]

Nice instructable! Never knew ASCII art could be simple!

[kamibox.de]

Thanks for your comments, I didn't expect that you understand me that fine, because I'm still learning English (I'm 15).
The website draws the edges a bit more blurred, here's Homer for example.

[rocketbat]

im 15 on the 6th and you can speak tons more English than i can speak German! great instructable!

[gmjhowe]

nice instructable, and your english was better than mine is, and im from england. Really easy to do, i dont kno why i didnt work it out myself lol

[megziewoodles]

I've never thought of that. I shall have to give it a go. Your English is fine. It was probably easier to read and understand than most of the things I've read on the internet.