ASCII Portrait

Drop in a photo, tune it to taste, copy the text. It all runs locally — the image never leaves your machine.

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high contrast · face fills frame · plain bg

Resolution & shape

Width 110 cols

Character aspect 2.05

Aspect corrects for glyphs being taller than wide. Too low = squashed, too high = stretched.

Tone

Brightness 0

Contrast 1.15

Gamma 1.0

Invert (light chars on dark)

Structure

Edge emphasis 0.35

Sobel edge detection darkens outlines — keeps eyes, jaw and nose readable instead of smearing into grey.

Characters

Ramp (light → dark)

Custom ramp (edit freely)

Preview

Glyph size 8.0px

Export

Copies the raw text block to your clipboard.

portrait.txt