You can also save out your presets once you find settings you like. If you need to get into the other tabs in the program it is more complicated, but the basic presets they provide are pretty good for a starting point. Like Midtone Hatching and Stroke Thickness.
But this image turned out pretty nice using Sketch’s B&W Sketch preset. I also tried that and did not like the result. To be honest I am not a big fan of adding the texture in the plug-in although you can actually upload your own textures to add. In this example I added a texture using Sketch’s hatched texture. (See Image 6 info for all settings used.) In this case Coloration was added and Color Pencil was checked. Then they recommend moving the Stroke Thickness and Midtones Intensity. After looking at Akvis’s website, it seems that many of the images start by applying the Classic style using the Black and White default preset in the drop-down at the bottom of the Sketch panel. I was surprised how sharp and almost realistic this hubcap display from the 39th Annual Turkey Run turned out. I loved the trees but could never get it to look the way I wanted it to – until I started playing with Akvis Sketch and got this very artsy sketch feel in the image. I spent a lot of time trying to get Simplify to create the look I created with Sketch and the image of trees on the Big Island in Hawaii.
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Anyway, I was able to apply the blur effect on both the Classic Sketch car and the Colored Classic Sketch car, and it turned out very nice once it was done.īut I must say that Akvis Sketch offers different choices on how to set up your sketch look to get some very unique results that Simplify cannot reproduce. I also found the directions a little confusing for the Background tab – sometimes you cannot use the blur with certain slider settings and sometimes you can. See screenshot below to see how the Colored Car background Blur Sketch was created. It helped to zoom in to 300% to lay down the lines, and it did take several attempts to get it to look natural. It took me a while to get the hang of how to create a mask so the blurring effect was where it should be – the Instruction Booklet makes it look like you can use a very loose selection, but I had to keep redoing it to get it to look right. For info on how all the images were processed, see the end of the blog.įor a little introduction to the program, there are two basic styles you can pursue: the Classic style for creating color or black and white drawing with contour lines, and Artistic style for creating “expressive” drawings that look they were hand-drawn. I created a vertical tych (see my Using a Tych Panel to Show Off Your Images blog) as an example of how I was able to recreate a pretty similar result using both Topaz Simplify and Nik Color Efex Pro. Many of Simplify’s presets and adjustments can get you a very similar result. Just goes to show that sometimes you get lucky! I am a huge Topaz (for website see sidebar in my Tidbits Blog) Simplify fan which has a very functional Line and Ink and Sketch sections.
The image above is of the Pulteney Bridge over the Avon River in England – I actually took this shot from a tour bus. I decided to try the Akvis Sketch plug-in after reading Theresa Airey’s Digital Photo Art New Directions book where she used it in some of her examples. Digital Lady Syd Reviews Akvis Sketch Plug-in for Photoshop
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