AKVIS Sketch 4.0

AKVIS Sketch is a plugin for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings.

Now you do not need to handle a pencil to feel like an artist. All you need to create your original work of art is good taste and AKVIS Sketch.

Our efficient method will allow creating realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite, color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting.

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 more convincing result; it comes very close to hand-drawn works of a human artist.

Getting a similar result with the standard tools would require expertise in image editing and extensive manipulation with layers, masks, brushes and applying filters. 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.

Home users will be delighted by the neat result of the photo-to-sketch conversion. 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. On the whole its a wonderful tool for those who have always wanted to draw but didnt know how.

AKVIS Sketch can be helpful to designers who need to quickly bring images to one style for a web-site or an advertisement booklet.