XnSketch is an interesting tool which makes it quick and easy to
turn regular digital photos into works of art. We looked at the Windows
version, but it's also available for OS X, Linux, iOS and Android.
Open your source image and you can apply one of 22 effects by
clicking its thumbnail at the bottom of the screen. There are pastel and
sketch options, cartoons, halftones, print and stamp options, and more.
And as you click each one so the XnSketch preview window immediately
updates to show you its results.
If you're not quite happy with an effect then you can tune it by
adjusting various settings. These always include brightness, contrast,
gamma, exposure and saturation, but some effects provide additional
options: edges, colours, opacity, blur and so on.
XnSketch still isn't quite as capable as some other graphics tools.
"Oil Painting" is such a popular effect elsewhere that we were sure
XnSketch would deliver great results, for instance, but actually it
proved disappointing. And there aren't enough dedicated configuration
options to help. Yes, the program lets you play with colours and
brightness, but we wanted to increase the brush size, amplifying the
effect, and there's no way to do that.
Still, other effects do deliver much better results. When you're
finished, you can save the results as a JPG or PNG file, or share them
via Facebook, TwitPic, Flickr, Picasa, email or a host of storage
providers. And this can be a surprisingly quick process: click File >
Share > Imgur, for example, and there's nothing else to enter or do.
XnSketch just uploads your current image, then ope
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