Plugin for Photoshop + GIMP to create ASCII-art pictures.
ASCII-art plug-in for Photoshop, GIMP and many other programmesPerfect for making ASCII-art-pictures with the picture editing programm you are used to work with. A special algorithm is used for detecting surfaces and changes them into letters. It is possible to use this for the layer of a picture in the rgb-mode.You can create simple black-and-white-ASCII-art. There is also the possibility to create coloured ASCII-art. For coloured pictures you can separate red, green and blue. This gives you the possibility to create ASCII-art with special personal touch. You can choose the alphabet you want. It is possible to use the same letter more than once for one picture. All ASCII-symbols are allowed (A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and symbols). The Ã??-symbol also can be used. Symbols that are not part of the ASCII are not supported. They are replaced trough spaces. An alphabet can have up to 255 letters.For a perfect result the original picture should have strong contrasts. There are also some examples and tutorials available at http://en.photoshopfilter.ascii-art.at
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Great idea, but no matter how many letters I gave the application to work with the mapping of letter darkness to image lights and dark didn't work. You could see the image all right but some tones were inverted which gave a sort of positive/negative (solarized) look to the image.
Application needs work.