#Akvis sketch presets mac os#

To the right there’s a panel that presents several editing options: pick a preset, select background mode, choose to add some custom text, generate a canvas, and so on. The main panel on AKVIS Sketch’s interface presents the photo you choose to load into the application.

#Akvis sketch presets mac os#

That is, in a nutshell, the sort of functionality you can expect to get from AKVIS Sketch: turn photos into pencil sketches or watercolor paintings.ĪKVIS Sketch is available as a standalone application for Microsoft’s Windows operating system and for Apple’s Mac OS X.ĪKVIS Sketch is also available as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and other photo editing software. In any case, you don't have to be able to draw for getting an even good result as I did with the AKVIS Sketch plug-in, whereas it's quite another story with the classic filters and brushes.Load a photo into AKVIS Sketch, pick one of many presets, and presto, you have a nice looking pencil sketch or watercolor painting. in its speed, compared with the long and numerous manipulations which are necessary to obtain a nearly similar result with the standard tools.

in the very precise way the plug-in processes the pencil strokes for getting a realistic hand-made drawing and The biggest differences of the AKVIS Sketch plug-in with the built-in Photoshop filters lie: Starting from the enhanced photo of step 4 I tried several Photoshop filters and merging modes on a few layers, but couldn't get the delicate result: all I was able to get was a violent image with a look of a 'Photoshop processed image', unless I started a long a difficult brush work. Important note: Some malcontents will probably say 'You don't even need the AKVIS Sketch plug-in for getting such a beautiful image'. There is still too much noise, particularly about the waist of the girl (1) and on the background (2). I click on the 'Run' button (the processing time is much longer than the first time). For getting very light midtones, I reduce the parameters Midtones Intensity and Midtones Hatching to the minimum too. For getting thinner and harder strokes, I reduce the parameter Stroke Thickness of the strokes to the minimum. I start with searching the best settings for the girl, without too much looking at the background. Actually, the plug-in doesn't make the difference between what's important (the girl) and what's not (the details of the background). The conclusion is that there are much too much details, particularly in the background, for a good sketch. For zooming and unzooming you just have to move the slider under the small picture -you can use the usual Photoshop commands Ctrl+ + and Ctrl+ - too ( + and - in the numeric keypad)-, so you can easily examine the details in every part of the image. Then you still can click in the big picture for quicker switching from one image to the other (in the small picture on the right top, this action moves the place you're looking at in the big picture). To compare the result with the original it's enough to left-click on the 'before' and 'after' tabs - the same thing if you press the tab key on the keyboard.