Images to Ascii Art

Images to Ascii Art is a lightweight and efficient software utility whose purpose consists of helping you turn regular images, be they in JPG, PNG, GIF or BMP format, to their ASCII counterpart, in just a few quick moves of your mouse.

Subsequent to the download process, you can decompress the archive and run the executable to get started; it is as easy as that, so lack of prior experience will not deter you from benefits from its functions.

The main window of Images to Ascii Art is quite simple to understand and work with, its functions being grouped at the top of the window, in a ribbon, while from the left-side panel, you can perform the adjustments you want.

To get started, you can click on the ‘Open Image File’ button and browse through your system to locate the targeted picture in JPEG, GIF, JPG, BMP or PNG format, then load it into the application. At the same time, Images to Ascii Art supports drag and drop actions, so you can can drop your photo over its main window and it is immediately converted.

The ‘Change Font’ button lets you choose a different set of characters, while the ‘Invert Display’ feature lets you work with a black or a white background, depending on your preferences. Images to Ascii Art allows you to opt for one of several available ‘Palettes’, for instance ‘16 Shades Text’, ‘Text Edge Detection’, ‘HTML Table’ and others.

Moreover, the tool supports adjusting the ‘Brightness’ and ‘Contrast’ levels of the picture, while also enabling you to select the ‘Grayscale Method’ as either ‘Lightness’ or ‘Average’. When done, you can save the result to a TXT or a BMP file.

Images to Ascii Art proves to be a very user-friendly and efficient program that can quickly transform regular photographs into ASCII art, sparing you the trouble of having to do it manually.