Text mosiac

A few years ago I saw a picture that was made from text. The individual letters were shaded so they formed a picture. The picture was made from approx 1000 words 16x20 inches. Very similar to whats being done using photomosiac programs. I am looking for a way to duplicate this using photoshop or another program any help would be greatly appreciated.

hey dude, u might want to consider using illustrator for something like that. or another vector prog. but 16x20 is actually not all that big. i say if u're serious about this, make one the size of a wall.

Sounds like the ascii lib again. There is a library you can use from Glib (I think) that will output graphics or video into ascii art. Search ascii art on google and you should see different kinds of samples, if that is what you are talking about. The glib library comes with Linux distros, by the way.

It is similar to the ascII programs however instead of assigning "random" characters to fit the picture. The text of the document stays the same and the shading/size/fonts change to create the image.

I thought of something that may work.
1. copy the image and turn that image --> mode --> grayscale

2. copy that grayscale image back into the full color one. so 2 layers - gray and color.

3. add the text layer.

4. using select --> color range , you could increment the amount of selection on the Grayscale image based on contrast light and dark. So for each selection shift - I to select the inverse. duplicate the text layer. Do this over and over so you'll have several layers of text with varying amounts of selection based on lightness and darkness....

just an idea.

Marble,
Thanks for your post I will try it....

it would be so cool todo that across my bedroom wall