FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds.
Thanks to FotoSketcher you can create stunning images to make original gifts for your friends or relatives. Create birthday cards, season's greetings stationary or simply print your work of art and hang it on the wall.
Different styles are available: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various painting renderings. You can also improve your original photo with simple tools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation etc...).
License: Freeware
Changelog
Main bug fixes:
a bug related to the default printer could prevent FotoSketcher from running
the manual brush would not work properly when the custom frame was applied with "autofit" on
the program would sometimes freeze when going to the fotosketcher.com website from the "About FotoSketcher" window
various small speed and stability enhancements
New and improved features:
New Pencil Sketch 5 effect (replaces the previous one)
New Light style for improved legibility
Possibility to run FotoSketcher in silent mode (via the command line interface or by editing a shortcut to pass parameters). The syntax is as follows:
FotoSketcher.exe -silent Source.jpg Dest.jpg 18 80 180 40 50 255 n y n
where Source.jpg and Dest.jpg are respectively the filenames for the source image and the processd image, followed by the effect number (1 is Pencil Sketch 1, 2 is Pencil Sketch 2, etc...), followed by the 5 parameter values, and finally n/y for soften edges, frame and texture.
For advanced users, this could be used to pilot FotoSketcher from another graphics program.
The standard custom frame has been updated and will adapt better (less distortion) to the image ratio (square, portrait or landscape)
Right-clicking on the small custom frame pictogram in the top-right corner reverts the custom frame to the default one if you had loaded another.
The script engine (press F5 to open the Window) now has a default script built-in. Just click the Run button to test it or the trash can to clear the script.
