By David Ringstrom, CPA
In an unlikely mash-up, Matt Parker of Think Maths offers a free tool that converts a digital photo of your choice into an Excel spreadsheet. According to the website, “digital photographs are actually just spreadsheets. When you take a photo, your camera measures the amount of red, green, and blue light hitting each pixel, ranks them on a scale of 0 to 255, and then records those values as a spreadsheet.” Parker's website is able to extract said values from a digital photo, record the numeric values in worksheet cells, and then use Excel's Conditional Formatting feature to recreate the photograph.
David H. Ringstrom, CPA heads up Accounting Advisors, Inc., an Atlanta-based software and database consulting firm providing training and consulting services nationwide. Contact David at david@acctadv.com or follow him on Twitter. David speaks at conferences about Microsoft Excel, and presents webcasts for several CPE providers, including AccountingWEB partner CPE Link