

If you are an Adobe Photoshop fanatic, and you want the ability to extend Photoshop into another dimension, do yourself a favor and download a trial copy of Akvis Sketch and test it out for yourself. I have been using Photoshop since the day they released it, and am currently using version CS4. I have tested it against other Photoshop plugins, Photoshop action scripts, and standalone applications. Akvis Sketch is by far the most accurate and detailed. I have tested almost every competitive product available. I found the answer with this excellent plugin. Your search is over, you don't need anything else to accomplish what Akvis Sketch can, along with your beloved Photoshop. On the whole it's a wonderful tool for those who have always wanted to draw but didn't know how. The program can be helpful to designers who need to quickly bring images to one style for a web-site or an advertisement booklet. You can even create comics from home videos in this way! The Batch Processing support allows you to automatically convert a series of images. AKVIS Sketch can bring a lot of fun: a pencil portrait can be a good present for your relatives and friends, a watercolor drawing obtained from your last nature shooting can decorate your room, you can convert any photo to an original drawing to print on a T-Shirt. Home users will be delighted by the neat result of the photo-to-sketch conversion. You can make the hatching denser or finer and change the pitch angle of strokes.

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. Getting a similar result with the standard tools would require expertise in image editing and extensive manipulation with layers, masks, brushes and applying filters.ĪKVIS Sketch has a neat interface with a few sliders. In contrast to the similar standard filters (like the built-in filters in Photoshop or PSP) that offer an approximate sketch, AKVIS Sketch provides a convincing result it comes very close to hand-drawn works of a human artist. Our efficient method allows creating realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting. All you need to create your original work of art is good taste and AKVIS Sketch.

Now you do not need to handle a pencil to feel like an artist. AKVIS Sketch converts photos into pencil sketches and watercolor paintings.
