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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Feb 1997.
Re: how do u do ....?

Re: how do u do ....?

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.

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