Akvis Sketch Plugin

**molucca** · 13 December 2006, 10:37 PM

A waterfall example. Recoloring is somewhat desaturated, and I made a round white circular transparent brush in XXP. I set the brush to saturation transparency and painted over the folage areas.

Rich

**molucca** · 14 December 2006, 11:57 PM

An Akvis poppy painted with a saturation brush in XXP. Rich

**Estrella** · 15 December 2006, 01:26 AM

amazingly, indeed

**molucca** · 15 December 2006, 01:15 PM

A fairly large image. It took a little while to process, but due to my system limitations. I locked the effect when it was returned to XXP.

Top is the original, middle is processed and the bottom is locally resaturated in XXP.

Rich

**molucca** · 16 December 2006, 12:37 AM

Trying the plugin on one of my PNG images. Rich

**WolfMoonHP** · 16 December 2006, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by molucca

An Akvis poppy painted with a saturation brush in XXP. Rich

OK, Rich...What is a saturation brush and where do I find one?

As usual, the images you show us are truly superb!
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Will

**molucca** · 16 December 2006, 01:52 PM

Will,

I make a round object in Xara with no line, and apply a circular transparency. Usually white of a lighter shade. Make a bitmap copy.

Use the freehand and brush tool to make a brush. Go to edit brush, fill properities, and turn off tile fills. Get a spacing you like.

Draw a path with the freehand tool, and set the transparency to saturation. Go to utilities and set the most recent attrubutes on.

I have probems getting the sequence just right, and you might have to try a little. You can adjust the saturation or make a brush of a different shade to control the amount of effect. Sometimes a white brush is way too much.

Then draw where you want to locally adjust saturation.

It is similar to drawing a filled rectangle filled with white and setting it to saturation. Just that now you can control the application by brushing on.

I always start with the recent attributed off. Otherwise it may not work to have a brush that paints with saturation. It would paint white, and you woould have to set it to saturation. The other way, you can see the effect as you paint.

Rich

**molucca** · 16 December 2006, 08:58 PM

A view of the brush before Saturation transparency. Seems to draw white and change to saturation transparency when ending the path. Nothing special. I set this to 90% to build the effect a little at a time.

Rich

**WolfMoonHP** · 18 December 2006, 04:30 PM

Rich...

Thanks so much for taking the time to explain. This looks like an extremely useful tool to have in my workshop.

I truly appreciate it!
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Will

**joa1** · 07 June 2007, 05:05 PM

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