literally what it says lmao
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so you'll be met with a little funky window:
by the feather, you can instantly discover i used tkinter for the gui and pyinstaller for the exe.
of course, it's not rocket science, as "open image" literally does what it says (opens explorer allowing you to open a thing):
i will be using this image.
now, your window should have the image loaded and shown:
if you're wondering where the result is, it's directly below the "text size" value. the result is already done, i just need to scroll down because it uses ✨spaces✨ instead of an actual symbol for a transparent pixel. that works for white backgrounds as well!
scrolling down gives you a weird salad with some text because i'm too lazy to make a proper method of showing the result:
to copy it, just click on the text box, then ctrl+a and then ctrl+c since there's no direct context menu for that so i hope you have a keyboard.
to see the results, just open notepad, and paste it in. you then get your result.
Important
"I want the image bigger or smaller!" - okay billy that's what the text size is for: it works like image resolution, so making it like 10 makes it a 10x10 text canvas and it's useless for that image because it gives you one symbol:
yeah i don't think you want that
on the other hand, making the resolution size big like 1024 then you're gonna get an image that has MUCH higher quality but is MUCH bigger you're gonna need to zoom all the way out on that:
Note
do you see those tiny things around the black symbols?
those are symbols too! correct, the thing supports anti-aliasing too, even half-transparent images!