Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit system.

A Russian company with address, phone&fax.

We had had version 1.3.0.0 (as Sketch Drawer "Pro") on January 7th 2014. Here are the old reviews.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/sketch-drawer-newyear/

The .exe is still file version 1.3.0.0 and slightly greater the the .exe from the last GAOTD.

It installs this time in a "Photo to sketch" directory.

A resizable window opens, you add a photo and with the default option you start to convert it to a pencil sketch. Under options you can change the language and with the presets you have a detailed option to change the sketch drawing process to your impression. A picture on the left shows the effect of the preset (not of the actual picture)

My former opinion is still valid :

The Sketch drawer is a simple to use program. You choose your picture and choose a mode for the drawing process. That’s all, but is much to less for a good result. There is the most important tool missing, a pencil or a brush, where YOU define, which parts of the picture should be altered to a drawing. e,g. keep the eyes nearly original, the face as a color pencil sketch and the surrounding background as a rough and low contras black pen.

And yes, they have now added the watermark tool. In the last version this was only included in the "Pro" version. If you are missing a watermark program. This does this simple task, too.

Still not impressed. A simple tool, compared with others on the market. It will replace the former version on my computer.

Karl  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+75)

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I'm an artist (amateur mind you). I've tried today's giveaway a little while back. It's interesting, but a bit too limited for what I intend to do with such a tool.

A few years back, I found Fotosketcher (www.fotosketcher.com) by a French programmer who lives in France. You take any picture and transform it into a pencil drawing, B&W or color, oil painting, pastel, watercolor, etc.

The results are simply amazing! I don't know this guy, but I wrote to him a few times to give him some suggestions. 90% of the time he implemented them. Talk about customer service!

I have no relation with him, just an avid amateur artist!

I suggest you give a try to today's giveaway, and then compare it to Fotosketcher, which is free by the way, and lots of improvements coming along in the near future (according to the author.)

JackieK  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+64)

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My download before was version 1.3, today's is version 1.4 which I had no trouble installing and registering.
Testing on the same photograph as last time I do see an improvement in the affects on the image.
In fact I was really pleased with the result as it looked very much like a charcoal sketch.
Most certainly will be keeping this program.

XP-Man  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+48)

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registered without a problem, used to draw a photo..no problem, saved the photo...no problem...reopen the photo and it said my copy is unregistered and has a big red line through the photo by the bottom, ..reinstalled my code again..no problem it said registered again, did another photo and saved it...no problem. don"t know what that was about, but looks like it is fixed now. program works fine, easy to use and results are ok.

Jeff  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+41)

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Agree with comment 7

Fotosketcher better AND free;

http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1414&ts=1262560810

FrankP  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+34)

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