Akvis Sketch Plugin

[Christine Farrelly]

Here's a tutorial on the Akvis site using Xara and their sketch plugin.

http://akvis.com/en/sketch-tutorial/vector-image.php

Christine

[Availor]

Thanks for the link

[jclements]

Okay Christine, now that you've let the cat out of the bag ... do you have an opinion about this plugin????

A good Value?

Speed in applying its affects?

Ease of use?

?

Regards, John

[Doug]

Okay Christine, now that you've let the cat out of the bag ... do you have an opinion about this plugin????

A good Value?

Speed in applying its affects?

Ease of use?

?

Regards, John

Try the demo? ;-)

I tried it, and it doesn't do too bad a job of creating pencil sketches. Rather slow rendering though. Dead simple to use, but not as many options or as versatile as Alienskin SnapArt for few dollars more if you are an existing customer.

Sketch isn't too bad for $72, just rather basic.

[Christine Farrelly]

I tend to use a either Sketcher or the Akvis sketch plugin - Sketcher is from Little Ink Pot and very reasonably priced - both work with Xara OK.

http://www.littleinkpot.co.uk/

Christine

[jclements]

Christine - Sketcher vs Akvis.

Pros? Cons?

[Doug]

Here's a tutorial on the Akvis site using Xara and their sketch plugin.

http://akvis.com/en/sketch-tutorial/vector-image.php

Christine

Interesting that SnapArt and Sketch both came out around the same time.

I do have reservations about these type of programs. They are fine as far as they go, but I think people would tire rather quickly of these as they are not the same as actually doing digital painting as in Painter, PhotoShop, ArtRage2, etc.

Iguess these plugs are a bit like the old 'paint by number' kits.

[joa1]

Greetings.
Any reason why the AKVIS SKETCH plugin does not work in XXP? If does load, it applies the effects, but when accepted, all I end up with in XXP is a ghost image and noting else... no borders, no pic (it vanishes), no effects...
I know it is there because if use the selection tool and drag around it, i can see the four corners of the original image... Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated.
Thks. Joa1

[molucca]

I believe I have seen that before. It seemed to be a refresh problem as far as I could tell.

I had a problem with the progerss bar before my system suffered from an overvoltage condition, and with the new system, that went away.

Sketch runs differently from XPE. In XXP, I lock the effect and make bitmap copies. This keeps the plugin from rerunning when making a bitmap copy. Difference bewteen running from vector and bitmap , I think.

Akvis is very good at responding to problems, and you might write to them.

If I see this again, I'll make a note of what happens.

Rich

[handrawn]

I can get this effect sometimes in different circumstances.

ctrl-shift-T to redraw, or minimise to desktop and restore, usually helps

think like said it is a graphics card refresh issue?