No photoshop: an American woman painted a picture exclusively using HTML and CSS code

No photoshop: an American woman painted a picture exclusively using HTML and CSS code

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Artist and programmer Diana Smith manually created a portrait of a woman in the style of the XVIII century using pure CSS code. It took her two weeks to complete this difficult task. But at the same time, it's very funny to watch how her work "rides" in older versions of browsers. Internet Explorer, as always, is on top.

No photoshop: an American woman painted a picture exclusively using HTML and CSS code Source: Motherboard Vice

The American woman drew the picture manually using the developer tools in Google Chrome. She named the resulting female portrait "Francine" and posted its code in open access on GitHub (a web service for hosting IT projects and their joint development).

No photoshop: an American woman painted a picture exclusively using HTML and CSS codeDiana Smith creates images using HTML and CSS code only, without using graphic editors and tablets. At the same time, in different browsers, the code from which "Francine" is made is displayed differently.

No photoshop: an American woman painted a picture exclusively using HTML and CSS code

For example, this is how the picture looks in the old version of The Opera.

No photoshop: an American woman painted a picture exclusively using HTML and CSS code

And so it is displayed in Chrome 9.

No photoshop: an American woman painted a picture exclusively using HTML and CSS code

But the picture looks especially frightening in early versions of Internet Explorer.

No photoshop: an American woman painted a picture exclusively using HTML and CSS codeOn the website of Diana Smith, you can find several more works created by CSS code. We haven't checked their cross-browser compatibility yet.

Keywords: Paintings | Code | Portrait | Artist

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