making image with notepad

Recently i come accros a txt file where a image is drawn using various keyboard characters like @ # & etc. it was very nice and i wonder to do this type of image is there any way in photoshop or we have do it manually by typing. there must be some other way because i dont think that the image i saw was made manually. please help

 

I really think that these images are usually created manually. Some are very intricate and no doubt took mountains of time to produce, but I've never seen any software that simulates these figures. Nevertheless, probably someone has made such a thing. But, isn't that cheating?

 

Here's a site with some nice instructions I found a while ago. There are also sites with designs already made.

How do you do that?

Arkworld

art collection

 

hi i find a nice software though not free to do this kind of things. Thanks for the links from where i get the term "ASCII ART"
you can try it from
http://www.torchsoft.com/download/aas_en.exe

 

Look here http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/ASCII_Art/Software/

 

well the software i previously mentioned was nice and i made this one with it..look at least from 5 ft away to get the exact view

 

Cool looking.

Wha program you use on that somak_de?

I got two of them last night that are free and ran them from the zip file because I did not have to install them. Well have to go back to http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/ASCII_Art/Software/ and check out some of the others they have too. But so far the one was many time better then the other and that was this one here. http://ascgen.jmsoftware.co.uk/

 

Cool, I am going to book mark those links and check them out.

 

Yea it is cool acraftylady.

 

Here's another free one (BG_ASCII 1.32):

http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=18089

 

hewee sorry i was bit late in reply. i used this one
http://www.torchsoft.com/download/aas_en.exe
thanks for the links. i'll try them

 

Thanks somak_de I will take a look at it.