Re: how do u do ....?
From Aris Merquoni <fla...@hotmail.com>
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· 5 Feb 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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Sven Guckes wrote: > > cab...@essex.ac.uk (Briggs C A): > > do ASCII artists type all the pictures or do they create them from software, > > converting from a b/w image or something? I mean, it's really amazing to > > make these pictures. I'm just curious to know. Maybe the answer is top secret. > > It's not that secret. Actually, it's pretty simple: > > (1) Take your camera and shoot some pics. > (2) Scan the photos. > (3) Convert them to JPEGs. > (4) Convert the JPEGs to GIFs. (tough) > (5) Convert the GIFs to TIFFs. > (6) Convert the TIFFs to Bitmaps. > (7) Convert the Bitmaps to PostScript. > (7) uuencode the PostScript. > (9) Use an editor to fine-tune the uuencoded data. > (10) Post it ice-cold to alt.ascii.art. > > Ta-dah! > > Sven [easy as pie] Why do you have to do steps 3, 4, and 5? My computer usually scans photos as TIFFs anyway, so you can just convert that to a bitmap. -- ________________ (|)(|) / / / (O) ( ===========__/_ |___________/ ---- \--------, , \__/_/_/_/_/_/ \ \ \ \ / ( <________________ \__ ------------------- / /--------\ \---------------\ \__ Lt. Comm Merquoni ((( Aris TGD > _>, | () | _/ / Aris the Galactic Dragon ((( | /\ | == __/\ Writer, Jihaddi, Artist, Dragon |/ \| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4786/ |blue| Visit the TRES CORPS site: ------ http://www.infinet.com/~cybrpyro/Jihad/TRES --------------------------------------------------- "The thing's hollow-it goes on forever-and-oh my god! *It's full of STARS!*" -David Bowman, 2001
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