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AKVIS ArtWork 6.0.1489.8028
Create art from photos, imitate different painting techniques. Shareware ($72)
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AKVIS ArtWork is photo to painting software, it is designed to imitate different painting techniques.
AKVIS ArtWork helps you to create a piece of art out of any digital photo!
AKVIS ArtWork is an ideal solution for your creative expression. Combining advanced technologies with an artistic approach, the new AKVIS creative suite is a perfect virtual artist.
The transformation of a picture into a painting happens before your very eyes - you can follow the birth of a work of art in real time!
AKVIS ArtWork offers these painting styles:
AKVIS ArtWork helps you to create a piece of art out of any digital photo!
AKVIS ArtWork is an ideal solution for your creative expression. Combining advanced technologies with an artistic approach, the new AKVIS creative suite is a perfect virtual artist.
The transformation of a picture into a painting happens before your very eyes - you can follow the birth of a work of art in real time!
AKVIS ArtWork offers these painting styles:
What's New
Version 6.0.1489.8028:
- New painting style - Pastel - which bridges the gap between painting and drawing. The pastel sticks or pencils form soft velvety strokes with subtle edges which can be smeared with your fingers. A distinctive feature of the pastel technique is the "glimmer" of colors in the form of small specks. Unlike paints, pastels don't cover the whole surface. The small gaps left uncovered let the background paper color show through the strokes and increase the general color effect of the painting.
The Pastel effect comes with nine ready-to-use presets which will help you create pastel drawings in a variety of styles: from sketches made with short strokes (as if with a thin pastel pencil) to drawing made with soft delicate strokes. The presets can be applied "as is" or be modified. You can also use the Stroke Direction tool to add your own creative touch by changing the direction of the strokes and the Smudge tool to improve your result by manually refining irregularities after processing.
Attention: the Pastel style is only available under Home Deluxe and Business licenses. Please consult the comparison table for more details about the license types.
- New color scheme of the Hints Panel: a white font on a gray background. If you prefer the old style (a navy/black font on a yellow background), you can change the Hints Panel mode in the Preferences.
- Added Batch Processing to the standalone version (formerly was available only in the plugin, as a Photoshop action). Batch processing is useful when dealing with a lot of photos. For example, you can create cartoons from your home videos.
- Added support for RAW files (CRW, CR2, NEF, ARW, RW2, PEF, etc.
- Added the possibility to use the OS File dialog for loading and saving files.
- Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
Version 6.0.1489.8028:
- New painting style - Pastel - which bridges the gap between painting and drawing. The pastel sticks or pencils form soft velvety strokes with subtle edges which can be smeared with your fingers. A distinctive feature of the pastel technique is the "glimmer" of colors in the form of small specks. Unlike paints, pastels don't cover the whole surface. The small more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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| Downloads:3,727 |
| Version Downloads:324 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:27 Jul 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $72.00 |
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AKVIS ArtWork is photo to painting software, it is designed to imitate different painting techniques.
AKVIS ArtWork helps you to create a piece of art out of any digital photo!
AKVIS ArtWork is an ideal solution for your creative expression. Combining advanced technologies with an artistic approach, the new AKVIS creative suite is a perfect virtual artist.
The transformation of a picture into a painting happens before your very eyes - you can follow the birth of a work of art in real time!
AKVIS ArtWork offers these painting styles: Oil, Watercolor, Comics, Pen & Ink, and Linocut. In the future, the program will learn additional painting techniques.
The Oil effect converts your photographs into oil paintings. The program lays brush strokes naturally using the original photo as a reference.
Unlike many other programs, ArtWork creates a real painting out of a photo, not just adds twisted geometric lines to make it look like one. Even with the default settings you can achieve a realistic result coming very close to hand-painted works. Tweak the options, and you can research a variety of oil painting styles.
For those in need of more flexibility and having ideas on how the final panting should look, there is a tool called Stroke Direction. This semi-automatic and highly intelligent tool is a real godsend as it gives you full control over the strokes. Use a special brush to define the guiding lines, and the virtual painter will convert the image into a painting directing the strokes to follow the drawn guiding lines. With this technique you can achieve truly realistic paintings with human hair, patterns and textures going in the right direction.
The Watercolor style converts a photo into a watercolor painting. Watercolor is one of the most difficult painting techniques and it is hard for a machine to emulate this effect, but ArtWork handles this well. Watercolors unique appearance is due to the water soluble pigments in watercolor paint and their interaction with wet paper. ArtWork lets you create beautiful, airy, and light watercolor paintings. The watercolor pictures made with ArtWork look like realistic paintings. You can achieve an effect very similar the work of a real artist made in the Glazing technique.
Both Oil and Watercolor styles also provide Post-Processing tools for manually retouching a processed image. For example, you can refine the image by removing paint irregularities, add some final touches to your masterpiece.
Next style, the Comics effect, allows ArtWork users to replicate works of famous comics artists with just a few clicks. This effect reduces the tones of the photo to create an image similar to a poster or a cartoon. You can make a comic strip from your party photos or create an original poster.
The Pen & Ink effect creates ink drawings from digital photos. It is emulating a special technique in which colored inks are applied to paper using a pen - from modern pens to a quill dipped in an inkwell. This style produces graceful images composed of object outlines.
The Linocut effect creates an image in the style of a linocut print. Linocut is a method in which a raised pattern is carved into a piece of linoleum, which is then used with ink to print an image on paper. Linocuts are known for their characteristic expressiveness, strong contrast between black and white, and rich and exuberant strokes. This effect is ideally suited for images of architecture or nature scenes.
In Linocut as well as in Pen & Ink you can change the color of drawing and the background color.
The software includes ready-to-use AKVIS presets which help you start working. They can be applied "as is" or can be modified. The program lets you save your favorite photo-to-painting settings as a preset and use them in the future. It's possible to import and export your presets.
The virtual painter will take care of converting a digital picture into a painting, but what else makes a painting look like a work of art? Canvas and the artist's signature! ArtWork offers the choice between a flat background and a rough surface (canvas, paper, etc) that makes the impression even more stunning. You can add a signature or an inscription to the picture with your own font and color.
AKVIS ArtWork is available in two versions - as an independent program (standalone) and as a plugin to a photo editor.
AKVIS ArtWork helps you to create a piece of art out of any digital photo!
AKVIS ArtWork is an ideal solution for your creative expression. Combining advanced technologies with an artistic approach, the new AKVIS creative suite is a perfect virtual artist.
The transformation of a picture into a painting happens before your very eyes - you can follow the birth of a work of art in real time!
AKVIS ArtWork offers these painting styles: Oil, Watercolor, Comics, Pen & Ink, and Linocut. In the future, the program will learn additional painting techniques.
The Oil effect converts your photographs into oil paintings. The program lays brush strokes naturally using the original photo as a reference.
Unlike many other programs, ArtWork creates a real painting out of a photo, not just adds twisted geometric lines to make it look like one. Even with the default settings you can achieve a realistic result coming very close to hand-painted works. Tweak the options, and you can research a variety of oil painting styles.
For those in need of more flexibility and having ideas on how the final panting should look, there is a tool called Stroke Direction. This semi-automatic and highly intelligent tool is a real godsend as it gives you full control over the strokes. Use a special brush to define the guiding lines, and the virtual painter will convert the image into a painting directing the strokes to follow the drawn guiding lines. With this technique you can achieve truly realistic paintings with human hair, patterns and textures going in the right direction.
The Watercolor style converts a photo into a watercolor painting. Watercolor is one of the most difficult painting techniques and it is hard for a machine to emulate this effect, but ArtWork handles this well. Watercolors unique appearance is due to the water soluble pigments in watercolor paint and their interaction with wet paper. ArtWork lets you create beautiful, airy, and light watercolor paintings. The watercolor pictures made with ArtWork look like realistic paintings. You can achieve an effect very similar the work of a real artist made in the Glazing technique.
Both Oil and Watercolor styles also provide Post-Processing tools for manually retouching a processed image. For example, you can refine the image by removing paint irregularities, add some final touches to your masterpiece.
Next style, the Comics effect, allows ArtWork users to replicate works of famous comics artists with just a few clicks. This effect reduces the tones of the photo to create an image similar to a poster or a cartoon. You can make a comic strip from your party photos or create an original poster.
The Pen & Ink effect creates ink drawings from digital photos. It is emulating a special technique in which colored inks are applied to paper using a pen - from modern pens to a quill dipped in an inkwell. This style produces graceful images composed of object outlines.
The Linocut effect creates an image in the style of a linocut print. Linocut is a method in which a raised pattern is carved into a piece of linoleum, which is then used with ink to print an image on paper. Linocuts are known for their characteristic expressiveness, strong contrast between black and white, and rich and exuberant strokes. This effect is ideally suited for images of architecture or nature scenes.
In Linocut as well as in Pen & Ink you can change the color of drawing and the background color.
The software includes ready-to-use AKVIS presets which help you start working. They can be applied "as is" or can be modified. The program lets you save your favorite photo-to-painting settings as a preset and use them in the future. It's possible to import and export your presets.
The virtual painter will take care of converting a digital picture into a painting, but what else makes a painting look like a work of art? Canvas and the artist's signature! ArtWork offers the choice between a flat background and a rough surface (canvas, paper, etc) that makes the impression even more stunning. You can add a signature or an inscription to the picture with your own font and color.
AKVIS ArtWork is available in two versions - as an independent program (standalone) and as a plugin to a photo editor.
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Deltam reviewed on 08 Feb 2012
It is not very fast software but produces amazing paintings.
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Magosilvan reviewed on 20 May 2010
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AKVIS Team rated on 08 Feb 2012