Haven’t you seen those scraps in Orkut where somebody has used wild characters to make their own image? At first glance, any novice would think that it is manually typed. But it isn’t (You knew it already - you techie!).

This is done by a simple program like the ASCII Generator. This program converts an image into corresponding ASCII codes/characters.The characters are selected and replaced in the image, based on the images contrast and sharpness.Dark areas will be placed by a particular character whereas, light areas will be left blank and mid-tones will be placed appropriately by a similar shaded character.

This is how it works

- Just select the photo you need to convert to characters.
- On the next tab you automatically get the ASCCI character code generated for the image.
- Copy the character code(Right click> Select All)
- Paste it where you want.
- You can also save the character image as a gif.

There are five sets of ASCII character code so that you can select which ever you need.

You may also tweak the images brightness and contrast so that the resulting character image appears the way you like it.

There is an option for batch conversion - where in you can select a directory and all the images in the directory will be converted to the ASCII character image.

This is a freeware and you can get a copy of the tool here

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