Saturday, March 17, 2012

Typography & Text-Based Art!

The following two images were converted to basic ASCII using glassgiant.com; it is a senior portrait of myself, and when it was at its original, blown-up size, it was nearly impossible to define the image. After reducing the image size down to this, it is a lot more clear what the picture is. You can definitely tell that this is me in the picture :) The photograph below is also a senior picture of me, and the further you zoom out of the photograph, the more it looks like the original image, except in grayscale!

 This image was also converted to ACSII, however I used the "more powerful" software on text-image.com. I think that you certainly can see a significant difference between this picture and the previous two images; this one displays a lot more detail, and the text is a lot more definitive of the lines and shading in the photograph!
The following image was also produced on text-image.com, but it was converted to the HTML format. It is supposed to be a picture of me standing at the top of a flight of stairs. What I really liked about this format was how rich the coloring was! Each individual letter is colored a different shade to represent all of the lighting, in detail, in the photograph- VERY cool!

This is my final image made on text-image.com and I made it using the Matrix format. It is supposed to be a picture of me and a cat; I thought that Matrix was pretty cool because it only uses green and black to depict a fairly detailed image.
 
The following three images are my Tagxedo creations! I LOVED this website! Very scrapbook-ish! Haha, I would totally use creations on this website for t-shirt designs, birthday cards, posters- virtually anything! The images produced are very attractive and interesting- you can't help but look at them! I made three pictures on this website representing my cat, my trip to California that I will be taking in a few days, and this warm spring weather that I have been enjoying. These are all screenshots, and you can see this in the third image that captured the effect of my mouse scrolling over a word on the image :)



Last, but certainly not least, are my Textorizer images! This first one was made on TextorizerI, and n matter WHAT I did to the settings, the image was never able to be defined. This is the best picture that I could produce, unfortunately. The words never seemed to completely fill the open space, which I thought was weird. Anyways, I took a screenshot, including my setting details and the original photograph, so that you can see what I did and see what it is SUPPOSED to look like lol.

This picture was made on Texterizer II, and I liked how it turned out A LOT better than the first program, because it filled the entire image with color- no empty space! However, for some reason it would not allow me to adjust the opacity and bring it down to 0- which was very strange. You can still see the basic outline of my original image behind the text and I wish I could have produced an image composed entirely of text!

Finally, I made an image out of lines- using Excoffizer! I liked this program the best because it was a lot of fun to play with the settings and adjust the spacing of the lines- you can see the difference between my first and second image. The only difference is the amount of space between each line that composes the photograph- this alone changes the image SO much! I thought that it was an interesting program to play with and I think that a lot of different artwork can be produced using this!


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