Conversion of photos to pencil and watercolor drawings, B&W and color sketches.
AKVIS Sketch is photo to sketch conversion software. It turns photos into pencil sketches and watercolor paintings. AKVIS Sketch lets you create realistic color and B&W drawings, it imitates the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting.
The program is available in two versions: as an independent program (standalone) and as a plugin to a photo editor. AKVIS Sketch has a neat interface with a few sliders. At first you can process the image with the default settings and then touch up the photo adding color, or trying different techniques - from pencil to charcoal or watercolor. You can make the hatching denser or finer and change the pitch angle of strokes, or add/remove the original colors.
You will be delighted by the neat result of the photo to sketch conversion. Using the program can be a lot of fun. Make a pencil portrait as a gift for your relatives and friends, a watercolor drawing obtained from your last nature shooting can decorate your room, or you can convert any photo to an original drawing to print on a T-Shirt. The program helps you when you need to quickly bring images to one style for a website or an advertisement booklet.
AKVIS Sketch comes very close to the hand-drawn works of a human artist. On the whole it's a wonderful tool for those who have always wanted to draw but didn't know how.
Changelog for this release:
- Added new "Artistic" style of photo-to-sketch conversion. Standard processing from the previous versions is called now the "Classic" style. - Added 26 presets to the new style and the preview images for the old and new AKVIS presets. - Renamed the "Size" parameter (in "Classic" style) - to "Stroke Thickness". - Stopped support for the "old algorithm" used in versions 1-8.6 (it was available until now, in versions 9-12 - by activating that option in the program preferences), as well as the presets made with the old algorithm. - The presets created in versions 9-12 using the "new algorithm" will be transfer in version 13. - Added the popup dialog for the tools' options (before the parameters of the tools were available in the Settings Panel). - Added the possibility to hide/show the Control Panel. - Added the new color scheme of the Hints Panel. - Improved RAW processing (loading the RAW images): added support for Sony cameras (SLT-A35, SLT-A65V, NEX-5N), fixed color processing, added support for DNG files. - Updated the Preferences dialog window: added the "Lock the Control Panel" check-box and the options of displaying the Hints Panel, removed the "Use old Sketch Algorithm" check-box. - Updated both dialogs for Import/Export presets. - Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. - Improved the Pastel preset in Classic style. - Fixed bugs.
RoSoftDownload.com team has tested AKVIS Sketch against viruses, spyware, adware, trojan, backdoors and was found to be 100% clean of any form of malware.. Our editors will test this application periodically to assure that it remains clean.
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