How to make ASCII art
1. Drop a JPG or PNG you already have. A video, an audio file or a WebP is refused here. 2. Leave medium, or pick fine or coarse. 3. Leave PNG, or pick JPG. 4. Press “Apply ASCII” and download.
GustKit reads the brightness of each cell and draws one black glyph on white paper. Fine reads a 4 pixel cell. Medium reads 8. Coarse reads 16. Each glyph is 5 pixels wide and 7 tall, with a 1 pixel gap, so the download follows the grid. A black cell becomes a dense block. A white cell stays blank.
Glyphs, not a two-color tint
Duotone maps the photo onto two colors and keeps the pixel size. Halftone draws dots and also keeps the size. Threshold turns the photo black and white without glyphs. This page replaces each cell with a character shape. It does not add a caption and it does not crop the photo first.
The photo stays in this tab
The canvas in this browser does the work. GustKit does not fetch a photo from a link. Close the tab and the file is gone. Camera location is not copied into the download.
How to check the ASCII art
1. Open the original and the download. 2. A black area should become a dense glyph, and a white area should stay blank. Coarse should use fewer glyphs than fine. 3. If the download is the same size as a large photo, you opened a different page.
Duotone keeps the pixel size and maps two colors. This page draws black glyphs on white paper and saves PNG or JPG. Nothing is uploaded.