Monday, February 23, 2015
Turn your digital photos into beautiful pencil sketches in seconds
FotoSketcher is an easy to use software solution that converts the image files stored on your computer to pencil sketcheswith user-defined parameters.
Although it provides a great amount of editing features, FotoSketcher remains a very easy to use application, and the main component that makes it that way is the interface.
With a split screen to show you the original and the edited photo, FotoSketcher also boasts multiple parameters, which allow any user to configure the way the pencil sketch looks like.
For example, you can select the drawing style and adjust edge threshold and intensity, color intensity, darken or lighten the drawing, set the level of contrast, soften edges, add a frame or add text. The drawing style includes multiple modes, such as pencil sketches, painting effects, pixelation, colored dots and other miscellaneous effects such as vivify, vintage and merge source and edited photos.
Additionally, FotoSketcher also allows the user to modify the source image by adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation, blur and sharpen, with separate sliders to let you easily configure all these parameters.
Unfortunately, FotoSketcher works with only three image formats, namely JPG, BMP and PNG.
While the number of features is impressive, FotoSketcher remains pretty easy to use, mostly thanks to the fact that the app shows preview screens all the time, allowing you to see your modifications in real time as you apply them.
Overall, FotoSketcher is clearly an effective tool that's not only freeware, but also easy to use. Just pay attention to theinstaller, as it also attempts to drop some other software tools on your system.
FotoSketcher allows you to create images that seem like they have been hand-drawn by some of the best artists.
If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or even the picture of your pet into a black & white or color pencil sketch, then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in a few seconds.
Although it provides a great amount of editing features, FotoSketcher remains a very easy to use application, and the main component that makes it that way is the interface.
With a split screen to show you the original and the edited photo, FotoSketcher also boasts multiple parameters, which allow any user to configure the way the pencil sketch looks like.
For example, you can select the drawing style and adjust edge threshold and intensity, color intensity, darken or lighten the drawing, set the level of contrast, soften edges, add a frame or add text. The drawing style includes multiple modes, such as pencil sketches, painting effects, pixelation, colored dots and other miscellaneous effects such as vivify, vintage and merge source and edited photos.
Additionally, FotoSketcher also allows the user to modify the source image by adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation, blur and sharpen, with separate sliders to let you easily configure all these parameters.
Unfortunately, FotoSketcher works with only three image formats, namely JPG, BMP and PNG.
While the number of features is impressive, FotoSketcher remains pretty easy to use, mostly thanks to the fact that the app shows preview screens all the time, allowing you to see your modifications in real time as you apply them.
Overall, FotoSketcher is clearly an effective tool that's not only freeware, but also easy to use. Just pay attention to theinstaller, as it also attempts to drop some other software tools on your system.
FotoSketcher allows you to create images that seem like they have been hand-drawn by some of the best artists.
If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or even the picture of your pet into a black & white or color pencil sketch, then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in a few seconds.
What's New in This Release:
- User interface improvements:
- added a "minimize drawing parameters window" button. When clicked, the drawing parameters window stays open, but minimizes automatically to the top left corner of the main window.
- added a "script" button to the drawing parameters window to facilitate access to the script window (F5 still works of course)
- added a new window style (skin) called Obsidian, which is lighter than the Charcoal default style (and more legible)
- current zoom level is now saved more consistently
- Effects enhancements:
- Painting 5 (watercolor) has been modified slightly to give a more painterly result (by increasing color variation between adjacent regions)
- Languages:
- Portuguese is now a supported language.
Program Information
Developer: David THOIRON
Price and Added Date
Freeware .23-02-2015
Download Links
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