gHacks technology news » convert images http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:02:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Turn Images Into Ascii Art http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/turn-images-into-ascii-art/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/turn-images-into-ascii-art/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:46:56 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5641 I cannot really think of the right place for so called ascii art other then sending it to friends or posting it on forums / websites for others to see. Even a good friend of mine who could be classified as the classical social user, those that hang out on social networks mainly, has discovered ascii art and is sending it to her friends and posting it in her profile.

Nothing is worse than posting ascii art that the others already know and to avoid this dilemma users could turn to applications that can turn images into ascii art to create unique images.

Shot2Char is just one of the many applications that can do that. Only one image can be converted at a time and it has to be available in one of the supported image formats like jpg, gif or bmp.

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The user can change some settings that define the outcome, for instance the font and font size or if the original colors should be kept or if the image should be converted to an black and white image. The chars that are used to create the image can be defined in that menu as well. The output format can also be selected. It can either be an image, html or text file.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/turn-images-into-ascii-art/feed/ 0 Image 2 HTML http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/19/image-2-html/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/19/image-2-html/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:26:45 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5045 Something that is more fun than anything else is a function to convert images to html. I cannot think of any other reason but to post it on some forums or websites as entertainment. It is definitely looking nicely and the program that I’m going to introduce right now has a lot of additional options that affect the html output.

Image 2 HTML is a software that can process any number of images and convert them directly into HTML files that can be posted on websites. The quality of the output is excellent, you can take a look at a small sample gallery here. The image is converted into a fully colored HTML file using chars defined by the user. This would probably make an excellent surprise for the misses if you convert an image showing the both of you with the chars Iloveyou or something similar.

Back to the tool. The background color, width, char size and char-set can be defined as well as some additional effects like mirroring the image or inverting it.

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The settings invite to play with them to create different looking images. If you can come up with another use of an image 2 html converter let me know please. Maybe to prevent images from being blocked by a firewall or network restrictions.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/19/image-2-html/feed/ 13 Batch Image Resizer Fotosizer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/batch-image-resizer-fotosizer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/batch-image-resizer-fotosizer/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 06:42:57 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4085 Image Resizers are available by the dozens on the Internet, even batch image resizers are not uncommon anymore and it boils down to taste rather than functionality or speed when making a decision for or against a specific product. Fotosizer adds itself to the list of batch image resizers. It comes with a clean interface that displays thumbnails of every image that is loaded into the application.

Supported features are to browse for files and folders or to drag and drop them into the program interface. The resizing options allow to change the resolution of each image by percentage or fixed width and a few preset dimensions can be selected to make them usable in iPhones, iPods or the PSP.

Other options that directly affect the resized image are the image quality and two checkboxes to maintain aspect ratio and preserve width and height by orientation.

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Several output parameters can be defined as well. The output file format can be selected as well as the output folder and the filename of the new files. Several variations are available for that purpose, for example adding day,month and year information to the filename.

Several optional parameters are available that can rotate the images or apply a black and white or negative filter.

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