AKVIS Sketch 9.0

AKVIS Sketch 9.0 is known as an interesting award-winning program for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings. Make any photo look like a B&W or color drawing, imitate the technique of graphite or color pencil, charcoal or watercolor painting. The program works in an entertaining way. It allows observing the conversion of a photo into a drawing/watercolor in real time and even interrupting the process when the required result is achieved.

Major Features:

1. AKVIS Sketch can add background effects to the resulting pencil drawing. Create a blend of a drawing and a photo; imitate motion or add a “time machine effect” by swirling the background. Put an accent to certain parts of the image by blurring the rest of it in an artistic way. It proves especially useful when the final drawing contains too many details on the background that divert attention.
2. You can personalize your work of art by adding an inscription (a signature or a greeting) to your pencil drawing. Also, the parameters on the Canvas let you add a rough surface to your image, as if it had been drawn on canvas, corrugated paper, brick wall, etc.
3. 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.
4. Home users will be delighted by the neat result of the photo-to-sketch conversion. Using AKVIS Sketch 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.
5. The program can be helpful to designers who need to quickly bring images to one style for a web-site or an advertisement booklet.

Enhancements:

• Changed the interface design, improved algorithm of photo-to-sketch conversion, added a new parameter field for edge definition, possibility to change the saturation of color strokes when using the color pencil drawing mode, and updated the program documentation.

Requirements:

• Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista; Mac OS X 10.3.9-10.5
• • Minimal system requirements:
  • • Pentium III, 1 Gb RAM, 100 Mb HDD; screen resolution 1024x768; video card Direct X8 compatible, 32 Mb, color depth 32 bits   Core Duo, 2 Gb RAM, 2 Gb HDD; video card Direct X8 compatible, 128 Mb, color depth 32 bits
    • OS X 10.4, Intel/G4, 1 Gb RAM, 100 Mb HDD; screen resolution 1024x768
  • Recommended system requirements:
  • • Core Duo, 2 Gb RAM, 2 Gb HDD; screen resolution 1280х1024; video card Direct X8 compatible, 128 Mb, color depth 32 bits
    • OS X 10.5, Intel/G5, 2Gb RAM, 2 Gb HDD; screen resolution 1280х1024