Convert a photo or AI-generated image into ASCII art — a picture made out of text characters — entirely in your browser. It's great for retro terminal / BBS-style moods, decoration in a README or code comments, posts on social media and chat, email signatures, or bringing an image into a text-only environment. A few controls shape the result. 'Width (characters)' sets how many characters wide the art is — more characters mean more detail, fewer means a coarser, lighter result (the number of rows is chosen automatically from the image's aspect ratio). 'Character set' is the run of symbols used for the conversion: 'standard' is the classic ` .:-=+*#%@`, 'blocks' uses shaded squares (░▒▓█), and 'detailed' is a long fine-grained ramp for smoother shading. 'Background' can be light or dark — light gives dark characters like printed paper, dark gives bright characters like a terminal. 'Invert' swaps the brightness mapping, handy for a negative look or for fixing shading that comes out the wrong way. Turn on 'color' to tint each character with the colour of the original image at that spot, giving a full-colour picture made of text. The preview is drawn with a monospace font on screen; use 'Copy text' to paste it directly, 'Download .txt' for a text file, or 'Download PNG' for an image (exported at higher resolution). Load images by dropping, clicking to choose, or pasting from the clipboard. All processing happens in your browser — the image is never sent to any server or API, so it's safe to use even where uploading files is not allowed.