AKVIS Sketch is software for conversion of photos into art, from graphite and color pencil to charcoal and watercolor illustrations. With a few sliders you can process an image in seconds and then touch up the photo adding color, or trying different techniques. You can make the hatching denser or finer and change the pitch angle of strokes. The results come very close to hand-drawn works by a human artist.

The application is available in two versions – as an independent program (standalone) and as a plug-in to a photo editor. The plug-in version is compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro etc. and offers Batch Processing support that allows you to automatically convert a series of images. Just create an action in Photoshop or a script in Corel Paint Shop Pro and apply the plug-in with the same settings to a folder full of images. You can even create comics from home videos in this way!

You can download and use the software for 10 days free of charge.