ASCII-Art

$C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Philipp\Eigene Dateien\Eigene Bilder\Bilder\Homer.jpg$

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

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Step 1: Choose a picture

$C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Philipp\Eigene Dateien\Eigene Bilder\Bilder\homer-budisch.gif$

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.

Machine says: Feb 11, 2013. 6:05 AM

Nice job! Homer is my favorite cartoon character too.

Thanks for showing us.

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Computothought says: Feb 8, 2013. 2:59 AM

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 says: Dec 27, 2008. 1:06 PM

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. in reply to kouraf16Jan 24, 2012. 9:28 PM

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 says: Jun 16, 2009. 11:15 AM

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

YellowBlu Co. in reply to J MoneymanJan 24, 2012. 9:26 PM

Wow! That works amazingly!

mmzdaniel says: Aug 5, 2007. 10:39 PM

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

rdsouza3 in reply to mmzdanielOct 18, 2011. 1:13 PM

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

rdsouza3 says: Oct 18, 2011. 1:04 PM

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 says: May 31, 2011. 2:51 AM

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glugnar says: Dec 19, 2010. 11:58 AM

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 (author) in reply to glugnarDec 20, 2010. 2:39 AM

Wow! Really great job!

glugnar in reply to kamibox.deDec 20, 2010. 6:11 AM

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

Mplinnc says: Feb 8, 2010. 3:17 PM

Format graphics

lgarzon says: Feb 22, 2009. 11:40 AM

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

tagaiz in reply to lgarzonAug 28, 2009. 5:33 AM

Yes you can get microsoft word.

j574sbi says: Jul 19, 2009. 12:06 AM

"Homer's Rapture in the Land of Chocolate"

PhantomMan3000 says: Sep 13, 2008. 9:50 PM

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

DuctTapeRules! says: Jul 27, 2008. 3:21 AM

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 in reply to DuctTapeRules!Aug 21, 2008. 2:19 PM

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

Oompa-Loompa says: Jul 27, 2008. 5:37 PM

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

QwertyuioLP says: Jun 24, 2008. 3:09 AM

I'm working on a game using this!

lib7 says: Sep 7, 2007. 1:03 PM

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

HBF says: Sep 1, 2007. 2:18 PM

Or, alternatively, you could use an ascii art generator

micropreemiemommy says: Aug 18, 2007. 7:02 PM

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

Ferrite says: Aug 2, 2007. 8:47 AM

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

sona in reply to FerriteAug 12, 2007. 9:43 PM

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

Ora says: Aug 12, 2007. 8:09 PM

Eggman from The Sonic TV Show

Closet_RAt says: Aug 8, 2007. 1:22 PM

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 says: Aug 2, 2007. 2:18 PM

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 in reply to ongissimAug 7, 2007. 9:30 PM

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 says: Aug 7, 2007. 9:27 PM

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 says: Aug 3, 2007. 10:02 PM

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

Ward_Nox in reply to thatkidejAug 5, 2007. 11:41 PM

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 in reply to Ward_NoxAug 6, 2007. 12:25 AM

Here's a program for Mac.

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

Ward_Nox in reply to thatkidejAug 6, 2007. 6:34 PM

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

thatkidej in reply to Ward_NoxAug 6, 2007. 7:55 PM

Hehe, it's cool dude. Enjoy =]

crestind says: Aug 5, 2007. 12:27 PM

Cool trick!!

wraith001 says: Aug 3, 2007. 9:51 AM

Nice instructable! Never knew ASCII art could be simple!

kamibox.de (author) says: Aug 2, 2007. 2:42 PM

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.