# Textmatrix: A Visual Studio Code extension to manipulate images in text form

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/textmatrix-a-visual-studio-code-extension-to-manipulate-images-in-text-form/2084>\
**Category:** Arcade\
**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/textmatrix-a-visual-studio-code-extension-to-manipulate-images-in-text-form/2084 "2020-05-14T07:38:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ractive](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/ractive/32/928_2.png) [@ractive](https://forum.makecode.com/u/ractive)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/textmatrix-a-visual-studio-code-extension-to-manipulate-images-in-text-form/2084/1 "2020-05-14T07:38:46Z")

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I created a Visual Studio Code extension that allows doing simple matrix manipulations on text. As you might have already guessed, this is really useful to manipulate images that are represented as text in makecode:

- Install this vscode extension: [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ractive.textmatrix](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ractive.textmatrix)
- Then go to the javascript view in your project and copy the image as text
- paste it into vscode and perform one of the supported operations (like " Rotate text by 90 degrees")
- copy the modified text in vscode and paste it into makecode again

See here how this will look like: [https://imgur.com/a/QTjgIzz](https://imgur.com/a/QTjgIzz)

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**Author:** ![Jernau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@Jernau](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Jernau)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/textmatrix-a-visual-studio-code-extension-to-manipulate-images-in-text-form/2084/2 "2020-05-14T11:27:41Z")

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Nice! Thank you for this.