Ascii Art 1.1 Plugin for Adobe Photoshop | 5 MB
Ascii Art is a fun filter for Adobe Photoshop for creating ascii art from images. ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII). Ascii Art works by mapping heavier toned ascii characters to darker areas and lighter toned ascii characters to brighter areas. For instance, the character maps to a darker color while the character maps to a brighter color. Ascii Art captures exactly what is displayed in the preview window and outputs it directly to a text file. Using Ascii Arts various features, the user can control appearance of the output including scale, height and header information is available. If the preview window is zoomed in or cropped, the captured image will reflect the zoom and cropping. Therefore, the preview window should be thought of as the camera viewfinder.
One of the most powerful features of Ascii Art is the ability to customize the mapping matrix. This allows the user to redefine the assigned characters thereby allowing the creation of an image using only numbers or special symbols, for instance.
The image below has had the character matrix remapped to numbers, for example.
Some images will capture better than others. Images with strong contrast and well-defined black and white areas will convert to ascii art much better than low contrast, washed out images.
Scale: Scales the ascii image to 1:X size. Since pixels are much smaller than characters, the resulting Ascii Art image can be quite large and sometimes won’t be fully visible on typically-sized computer monitors. Using the scale feature, you can create smaller ascii art files. A scale setting of 2 will output every other pixel while a scale setting of 3 will output every third pixel.
Every Single Line: Specifies whether to process each or every other line. Since characters are longer than pixels, the resulting Ascii Art image can appear to be vertically stretched. Processing every other line will create a resulting ascii art image that is closer in aspect ratio to the source image
Include Header: Specifies whether or not to include filter information in the file header.
Invert: Specifies whether or not to invert the ascii image file.
Density Matrix: Specifies the density matrix to be used. The density matrix maps specific characters to specific luminance values. Ascii Art currently maps 10 characters to a range of 255 shades of gray. The user has the ability to remap different characters including numerics, symbols and any other on the ascii character set.
Reset Matrix: Resets the density matrix.
Display File: Displays the ascii image file if it has been created.
Changelog
v1.0 - First release.
v1.1 - 64 bit support.
This software is compatible with the following OS:
Windows 8 64 bit
Windows 8 Pro 64 bit
Windows 8 Enterprise 64 bit
Windows 7 Home Basic 64 bit
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit
Windows Vista Business 64 bit
Windows Vista Enterprise 64 bit
Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
This software is compatible with the following hosts:
Any host capable of running Adobe Photoshop 64 bit compliant plugins
Adobe Photoshop (Version CS5 or higher) 64 bit
Adobe Photoshop Elements (Version 13 or higher) 64 bit
Adobe Illustrator (Version CS6 or higher) 64 bit
Computerinsel Photoline 64 (Version 16 or higher) 64 bit
CorelDRAW (Version X6 or higher) 64 bit
Corel Painter (Version 12.1 or higher) 64 bit
Corel Paint Shop Pro (Version X6 or higher) 64 bit
Corel Photo-Paint (Version X6 or higher) 64 bit
Paint.NET (with the PSFilterPdn plugin) 64 bit
Serif PhotoPlus (Version X6 or higher) 64 bit
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