#Turn photo into sketch drawing update#

Connections to Twitter, Facebook, and other photo sites would be a welcome addition, but perhaps those features have been slated for an upcoming update.ĪutoPainter 3 is mostly a one-trick app, but with four styles and extremely realistic results, it's hard to complain. Your only option is to save the finished product to your iPhone photo library. One glaring feature omission with Autopainter 3 is the ability to share. You start by taking a picture or choosing one from your photo library, then you choose what style of painting you want to make from four choices including Monet, Camille, Val d'Orcia, or Van Gogh.Īs I showed this app to a few people around the office, they all had the same question: while the end result looks incredibly realistic, would the lengthy process become annoying after converting several images? I suppose it would, but I might argue that part of AutoPainter 3's charm is taking part in watching how the image turns into a painting and an instant change might take away from that effect. Anyone who likes that sketched look and wants to do something special with their photos should definitely grab this app.ĪutoPainter 3 (99 cents) takes a slightly different angle on turning your images into art, by going through a 3-step process to make your image look like a real painting. Overall, My Sketch is a very well polished image manipulation app that produces excellent high-res sketches of your photos. Like most apps these days, My Sketch comes with a number of sharing options including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Tumblr, or you can send the image to a friend via e-mail. The step-by-step process leaves little room for error as the app guides you from start to finish. Just upload any favorite image of yours or from the internet to sketch the outline and turn photo into line drawing. My Sketch was released late last year and you can tell the developers made sure theirs was something different from others in the photo/art category.

#Turn photo into sketch drawing update#

Hopefully the developers will update the interface to be more linear, because the unique effects are definitely worth checking out, but as is will become frustrating if you don't have a lot of patience. In the end, PowerSketch offers excellent and unique photo effects, frames you can add as a contrast to your image, and sharing capabilities that let you post your creation to several social networks and even international sites.

After some time with the app, I was able to figure out the process for making sketched images, but it seems like the developer could make it easier to navigate the menus. Sometimes I just wanted to go back to the last screen, but it wasn't possible, and other times I just wanted to go to the home screen, but there was no option to do that. A home screen makes it seem as though you're going to go through a 4-step process to making a neat looking sketch, but you'll quickly get lost as the app makes it hard to understand which step is which. Why do we need to convert it into a Smart Object? It's because, when a filter is applied to a normal layer, it remains a normal, static filter.That's the unfortunate problem with PowerSketch - the interface is all over the place. So how do we apply Gaussian Blur as a Smart Filter? For that, we first need to convert the layer to a Smart Object. By applying Gaussian Blur as a Smart Filter, we're giving ourselves the option to go back and fine-tune our sketch effect later rather than locking ourselves in with our initial filter settings.

They allow us to easily go back at any time and make changes to the filter's settings without any loss of image quality. What's a Smart Filter, and how is it different from a normal filter? Well, Smart Filters are just like normal filters in Photoshop, only smarter! What makes them 'smarter' is that while normal filters produce static results (that is, they make permanent changes to the pixels on a layer), Smart Filters are non-destructive and remain fully editable. But rather than applying it as a normal filter, let's apply Gaussian Blur as a Smart Filter. In a moment, we're going to create the main part of our sketch effect by blurring the layer using Photoshop's Gaussian Blur filter. Step 6: Convert The Layer Into A Smart Object Changing the blend mode to Color Dodge turns the document temporarily white.