- AKVIS Charcoal allows you to create drawings with each material, charcoal and chalk, or combine them using dramatic contrast between black and white. Playing with colors and options, you can get a lot of variants of the photo to drawing conversion and achieve outstanding artistic effects such as Sanguine, Sepia, Sauce, and others.
- Akvis Sketch converts photos into digital images that emulate pencil sketches, watercolor, charcoal and/or pastel drawings, with automatic or comparatively easy to use tools, and immediate feedback.
- AKVIS Charcoal is an artistic tool that turns photos into charcoal and chalk drawings. The program allows users to make drawings with one or both materials, and creatively combine them. Because of their chalky finish, these materials offer endless possibilities for expressive techniques. Playing with colors and options, you can achieve outstanding artistic effects and imitate sanguine, sepia.
AKVIS Charcoal 1.0.211.11133 (x86/x64) 152 Mb AKVIS Charcoal is an artistic tool for conversion of photos into charcoal and chalk drawings. Charcoal is one of the most popular materials for drawing. It lets you create a preliminary sketch as well as a finished work of art. AKVIS Charcoal is an artistic tool for conversion of photos into charcoal and chalk drawings. Charcoal is one of the most popular materials for drawing. It lets you create a preliminary sketch as well as a finished work of art. It combines the advantages of different materials and can be used together with different drawing tools.
No review
No VideoA feature-rich and intuitive application that lets you make regular photos look like chalk drawings
AKVIS Charcoal is a robust piece of software that enables you to customize your photos to make them look like they are chalk drawings.In the friendly interface you can quickly load photos and use the included drawing and editing tools from the dedicated tabs.
AKVIS Charcoal enables you to work with various common formats such as BMP, PNG, DNG, JPG, ORF, and PEF. There are numerous parameters you can adjust such as smoothing, stroke intensity, stroke thickness, chalk hatching levels and so on.
Nevertheless, you can also load an existing preset and adjust the properties of the canvas.
- License:
- Platform:
- Publisher:
- File size:
- Updated:
- User Rating:
- Editors' Review:
- Downloads:
Como Usar Akvis Charcoal Grill
DRAGONFRAME 4.2.4Interested in turning photographs into works of digital art, such as cartoons, charcoal drawings, ink drawings, oil paintings, pastel drawings, and watercolors? Here are brief descriptions of some key software tools for desktop computers. Unless otherwise noted they work in Photoshop as plug-ins.
FotoSketcher
FotoSketcher is a versatile free standalone Windows program that allows you to create drawings, paintings, and a few other effects. It can transform photos into cartoons, oil paintings, oil pastel drawings, pen and ink drawings, pencil drawings, watercolor paintings. and other types of artworks. It is standalone freeware.
Sliders and other controls for each effect allow you modify image rendition. For example, for the oil pastel sketch effect you can control minimum stroke size, maximum stroke size, number of iterations, edge intensity, and filter precision. You can also soften edges, add a frame, add texture, add text, and use a retouch brush. There is a small preview window in the floating control panel.
This program is especially useful for oil paintings, oil pastel drawings, and watercolors.
Akvis Charcoal 5.0
Snap Art by Exposure
Snap Art is a full-featured Windows/Mac plug-in/standalone program that allows you to easily create charcoal drawings, color pencil drawings, comics, crayon drawings. impasto paintings, oil paintings, pastel drawings (including hard, oil, and soft pastel), pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, Pointillism paintings, stylized illustrations, and watercolor paintings.
There are a variety of presets for each effect, and slider controls for background (e.g, for oil paint: brush size, photorealism, coverage, stroke length, and color variation), detail masking (similar controls as background), colors (e.g., brightness, contrast, and saturation), lighting (e.g., angle, direction, and highlight characteristics as well as vignette effect), and canvas effects (e.g, pastel paper). You can create your own presets. The ability to close side-panel controls permits a large preview space.
This program is especially useful for charcoal drawings, colored pencil drawings, oil paintings, and pencil drawings. It has good canvas and paper texture effects.
Dynamic Auto-Painter by MediaChance
Dynamic Auto-Painter, a Windows/Mac stand-alone program, allows you to paint in the style of famous painters, such as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh. It allows you to create a wide variety of types of artworks.
There are a variety of controls for each preset, such as brush strokes, canvas, detail brushes, faithfulness, realism, palette, and quality. It supports advanced (e.g, color shift), retouch, outline, canvas, material, color, and layer adjustments. It is highly customizable. Artwork rendering occurs in stages, with further user fine-tuning possible during some stages. It typically renders vivid, saturated images, but image saturation can be adjusted.
While the presets can be used to easily create artworks, the real power of this program is not revealed until you start using the numerous advanced controls and directing brush strokes during the creation process. You are likely to experiment with a number of adjustments to get desired effects.
This standalone program is especially useful for oil paintings.
Other Digital Art Software to Consider
Depending on your artistic requirements and style, the following software may also be of interest.
- AKVIS Charcoal (charcoal and chalk drawings)
- AKVIS Draw (highly expressive, loose drawing effects)
- AKVIS OilPaint (oil painting and oil pastel effects)
- AKVIS Pastel (crayon, oil pastel, and pastel effects)
- AKVIS Sketch (charcoal, color pencil, lead pencil, pastel, and watercolor effects)
- AKVIS Watercolor (aquarelle and watercolor effects)
- JixiPix Aquarella (watercolor paintings)
- JixiPix Artoon (cartoon drawings)
- JixiPix Moku Hanga (block printing)
- JixiPix Impresso Pro (standalone; oil painting effects)
- JixiPix Pastello (chalk, crayon, pastel, and pencil effects)
- JixiPix Watercolor Studio
- ToonIt! (cartoon, graphic novel, woodcut, and other effects)
Akvis Charcoal Crack
Useful Photo Editing Software
The following software is recommended for editing artistic works:
- Exposure (standalone and plug-in; very powerful full-featured photo editor with numerous useful presets; highly recommended)
- Luminar (standalone and plug-in; powerful full-featured photo editors, especially useful for light ray effects)
- ON1 Photo RAW (standalone and plug-in; powerful full-featured photo editor with numerous useful presets)
- Topaz Denoise AI (very effective noise reduction)
Purchase Advice
It is highly recommended that you download and test digital art software demos prior to purchase. Try all the presets. A software company's idea of what a good art effect is may not match your own, so experiment with changing the settings of unsatisfactory effects before concluding that the program cannot do what you want.
Some programs do not have a variety of presets. It is more difficult to create your own presets from scratch rather modifying presets.
It is especially important to test the limits of a program and to determine what features can be disabled. For example, see how much detail you can get in a painting and check whether it is possible to turn off the texture effect (i.e, canvas).
In some cases, it is worth buying a program for one or two unique effects even though the rest may not be satisfactory or may duplicate effects you already have in other programs.
If possible, save older versions of software. New versions may drop or significantly change features you rely on.
Software Licensing and Sales Policies
AKVIS has separate home, home deluxe, and business licenses. Only business licenses allow commercial use. Dynamic Auto Painter has home and pro versions.
Companies may offer one or more software bundles, which reduce the prices of included products.
Some companies, such as Exposure, offer their products at substantial discounts during sales, which typically occur during major US holidays. These are especially good times to buy software bundles.
About the Author
Digital artist Charles W. Bailey, Jr. transforms public domain and personal photographs into noncommercial digital artworks using specialized Photoshop plug-ins and art programs. He has made over 600 digital artworks freely available under versions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licenses, providing detailed information about how each artwork was created, and, for public domain images, attribution of the original image creator (if known).