Photo To Sketch

Pros

• Plenty of effects to create your custom images.
• Lets users create paintings, pen drawings, pencil sketches or pastels from digital photographs.
• Easy and simple to use.

Cons

• Lacks an undo feature.
• Does not offer as many features as other photo sketch programs do.
• Easy to choose the wrong feature or effect.

Photo to Sketch is a basic program that lets you create artwork and sketches from the photos you take and those you already have on your computer. Though you can do similar tasks with PhotoShop and other programs, those programs are often quite expensive and require a large amount of experience. This program is so simple that anyone in your family can use it. Your kids will have fun changing the pictures they take of their friends into sketches that they can print out and take to school, and you can use the program to create artwork for your home, scrapbooks or even party invitations and thank you cards.

This program gives you two different options. You can do the transfer yourself, or you can request that the program automatically adjust your images. Many users find that when the program does the conversion, their images do not quite meet their needs. Doing the job yourself lets you make adjustments to create the perfect image. The program lets you adjust the size of the brush from a smaller pencil brush to a larger paintbrush. You can also make the final image look like a painting, a pen and ink drawing, a pastel or a pencil sketch.

If you think that you don't have enough computer experience to use Photo to Sketch, think again. With its simple slider buttons, you can just move your mouse to change the size of the brush or pencil, but you can also adjust the exact lines that the mouse hits and make other changes. If you decide that you don't like the final image, you can completely redo the entire thing. The program lets you save your image with each step you make, discard your changes or save your work and come back to it later.

Photo to Sketch does not come with an undo prompt, which might frustrate some users. When you make a minor mistake, you need to start over again from scratch. Saving your work as you go is a simple solution to that problem. When you reload your image, it picks up from the last step you saved and not the last mistake you made. It also lets you add an effect and drag it across the image, which makes creating a custom image fast and easy.

Some users will find that they can easily select the wrong feature and apply it to a photo, which requires that they start over again on their work. Others complain that it does not come with as many features or effects as other similar programs do. Photo to Sketch does have a few small problems, but it is a simple and basic photo editing program that many users enjoy.

Pros

• Plenty of effects to create your custom images.
• Lets users create paintings, pen drawings, pencil sketches or pastels from digital photographs.
• Easy and simple to use.

Cons

• Lacks an undo feature.
• Does not offer as many features as other photo sketch programs do.
• Easy to choose the wrong feature or effect.