Snap Art sells for an estimated street price of $149. Context-sensitive help and an online manual keep things easy to understand. Snap Art works with 16-bit images and is scriptable with Photoshop actions. Snap Art also features a variety of brushes, pencils, pastels, and pens, as well as an assortment of canvas and paper types. In addition, Snap Art emulates a number of traditional drawing effects such as colored pencils, charcoal for softer shading, and hard, soft and oil pastels. Craft a rough and rocky landscape in dry brushed watercolor or thickly textured impasto. Digital artists can render a still life with pointillism as a Neo-impressionist might. Popular painting techniques are quick and easy in Snap Art. Snap Art introduces several effects never seen before in a plug-in - most notably it can recreate an image with a comics look, complete with shading and half-toning. Artists, photographers, and designers can now give a hand-crafted look to any digital image. This an all new plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and other image editors creates convincing, one-click natural media with no laborious hand editing. We've bragged about Alien Skin products many, many times - since the dawn of Photoshop! It works equally well for both Windows and Mac users! AKVIS Sketch sells for $72 USD, downloadble from Alien Skin Software Snap ArtĪdd Snap Art to your arsenal and you'll never want for an artistic effect - ever again. See: Demonstrations of the plugin's featuresįor a free trial, AKVIS offers 10 days of fully functional use - it's compatible with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter, Corel Photo-Paint, and Paint Shop Pro, ACD FotoCanvas, and Ulead PhotoImpact. And, in contrast to the similar standard filters built-in to Photoshop or PSP that offer an approximate sketch - AKVIS Sketch provides a convincing result that comes very close to hand-drawn works of a human artist. With Snap Art it takes as much as a minute to render the effect - the ONLY down side. Once you set up the parameters, the sample image is shown almost immediately. We have to say, it tops Snap Art by a wide margin. You can make any photo look like B&W or color drawing, imitate the technique of graphite or color pencil, charcoal or watercolor painting - and here's the good news: Sketch runs on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/NT and on Macintosh Mac OS X 10.4, PowerPC G3 and above
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The batch mode conversion (Photoshop and Corel Paint Shop Pro) allows you to automatically convert a series of images, thus even creating comics from videos! This smart plug-in for photo-to-sketch conversion will help you to embody your creative ideas.Īkvis conjured a revolutionary algorithm that allows you to convert a photo into a pencil sketch in a few mouse clicks. If you've always wanted to draw but didn't know how, AKVIS Sketch 2.1 is the right software for you. Both plug-ins are superb - both accomplish a host of variations and effects, and both are rich with user-friendly interfaces. We could not choose between Akvis Sketch and Alien Skin Snap Art. When time came to decide who would sit on the coveted DTG BEST roster for 2006, we came up with a stone-sober draw. This year however, two companies took on the challenge to create a plug-in that would accomplish wonderful natural media conversions of photos with a click or two. We've spent hours writing tutorials and describing the hundreds of processes available in Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Photoshop Elements in order to accomplish those goals. Most frequently they ask about pencil or pen and ink sketches. Hardly a week goes buy without someone writing in for a quick, easy way of converting digital photos or Photoshop images into art.