AKVIS Sketch

I have tried many applications that allow photo manipulation, but this is without equal as a standalone or plug in for your favourite graphic program.
The interface is clean and simple, easy to use and the results are spectacular, this is a very addictive piece of software and will keep me occupied for hours experimenting with it.
Well done Akvis, for producing something truly wonderful.

AKVIS Sketch v.9

I love this version of Sketch. The developers have really created an exceptional program. And I do appreciate the pre-sets they included in this version.

AKVIS Sketch

The new Sketch is fabulous, the results are stunning! Apparently a lot of effort went into developing the latest version. I was very surprised by the wonderful results I got using the default settings in Sketch 9.0.

AKVIS Sketch

Your search is over, you don't need anything else to accomplish what Akvis Sketch can, along with your beloved Photoshop. I found the answer with this excellent plugin.
Nothing compares to Akvis Sketch. I have tested almost every competitive product available. Akvis Sketch is by far the most accurate and detailed. I have tested it against other Photoshop plugins, Photoshop action scripts, and standalone applications. I have been using Photoshop since the day they released it, and am currently using version CS4.
If you are an Adobe Photoshop fanatic, and you want the ability to extend Photoshop into another dimension, do yourself a favor and download a trial copy of Akvis Sketch and test it out for yourself. I'll bet you end up purchasing Sketch. You will not be disappointed. It is well worth the price. Don't waste your money purchasing another program to do what Akvis Sketch can, along with every professionals favorite... Photoshop.

AKVIS Sketch

I use Sketch an awful lot and find it simple to use and easy to achieve the results I am seeking.
The interface is really user friendly.
I'm saving for Artwork at the moment.

AKVIS Programs

I have I think all of your plug ins and they are great timesavers.

AKVIS ArtWork

I am an artist who generally paints in too tight a manner. This program is great for me because I can simplify my photos (convert them into oil paintings), print them and then use the results to help me learn not to focus on details quite so much.

AKVIS Sketch

I work here in India to create/edit photos, sketch portraits, and paint oil based landscapes. I have been using computer-based-tools from years, and tried almost all the available products. I came across Akvis-series early this year....and I liked it. It is simply a great product...and has great future.

AKVIS Sketch

I wish I would have found your Sketch program sooner as I have spent many hours using PhotoShop trying to achieve the same results but did not even come close to your Sketch program which I'm more than happy with. In fact I will try all your programs offered.

AKVIS Programs

Let me bring my testimony on AKVIS products, I am very pleased with all the plugins created, a huge thanks to all of you for the work you do.
Your products work well, are full of so many options and very simple to use.
You can achieve fantastic work in a short time.
Collaborators AKVIS are always available to help in difficulty or for clarification, thanks to them.
The creation of new AKVIS, ArtWork is very good and certainly will be improved with time.
Sorry for my bad English, I write from Italy.

AKVIS ArtWork

ArtWork funziona benissimo! E' un plugin fantastico, come tutti quelli che Akvis ha creato. Io sono entusiasta dei vostri prodotti che funzionano bene, sono completi e si usano con molta semplicità.
Grazie a te e a tutti voi per il lavoro che fate.

AKVIS Programs

Over the past two weeks I have downloaded and used several of the Akvis programs including Retoucher, SmartMask, Enhancer, ArtSuite, Magnifier, and Sketch.
The Magnifier program is the best I've seen. I used it a lot while I had the trial. The images can be magnified without losing detail. I tried it going double the size of the original image and it still looked perfect.
The Sketch program is amazing. It gives you the choice of black and white, color, water color, charcoal. You use the sliders to control the strength of how the image will look.
As you roll your cursor across each selection it tells you what it does and how to do it. It's easy to use and the finished image is great. I loved playing with the program.
ArtSuite makes some of the most amazing frames. It puts the perfect finishing touch to any image.
Akvis programs make editing and creating so much easier, quicker, and fun! I will be recomending Akvis programs to everyone on the photo sites I'm a member of.
Even if you are just starting out you will be surprised at how easy the Akvis programs are! Download the trials and see for youself!

AKVIS SmartMask

First I have to say that the Akvis programs make editing so much quicker and easier. It's even more fun.
While working on editing a portrait I needed to remove the background so I could add a solid one. I downloaded a trial of the Akvis SmartMask, opened it up, and gave it a try.
The instructions are very easy to follow. All you have to do is hold your mouse over an icon and it will tell you what it is and what it does.
It took me about 5 minutes to do what used to take me 30 minutes or more. I was even able to add the new solid background.
Thank you, Akvis!

AKVIS Retoucher

I recently needed to create a portrait image from a photograph. The person in the image has tattoos all around the chest area. I've tried so many times to cover the tattoos and couldn't. I downloaded a trial of Akvis Retoucher to see how it would work.
One pass over the area with Retoucher and the tattoos were gone. I was absolutely shocked at how fast and easy Akvis Retoucher made it.
You would never know the young lady in the image has a single tattoo.
Thanks, Akvis!

AKVIS Sketch

I have to compliment you on your sketch program. I have a friend who uses some expensive products to create sketches and I used yours and I produced a much cleaner and more accurate rendition than his product did! Akvis Sketch does an excellent job of creating accurate sketches from the photos. They are clear, crisp, and excellent reproductions of the photos.

AKVIS Sketch

I recently downloaded the 10 day trial of Akvis Sketch. I fell in love with it and have been showing my art work to my customers and telling them how easy it is to use. Akvis makes it so easy to create professional looking work.

AKVIS Sketch

The more I use it, the more I like it. I have tried a large amount of the Photoshop filters, but none come close to achieving what I want as "Sketch" does. For anyone who likes or liked to draw, I would recommend purchasing you program, as it releases one from the bounds of Photoshop.

AKVIS Sketch

I love that plug-in and I believe it to the best of its type available to-day.

AKVIS Coloriage

I am finding it excellent and will definitely buy it. It's doing exactly what I needed and is not complicated. So I am delighted with it.

AKVIS SmartMask

Thank you for this fabulous software. This is the best I have tested on my mac G3.

AKVIS Sketch

I can't say enough about this program...I LOVE it. Gives me just the effect I need. The free upgrades are a real plus!!!!!!!

AKVIS Enhancer

Since I discovered the HDRI form me as a possibility to make great image even as an absolute beginner, I was looking for a tool, that could merge my single images together to HDRI. I have tested some tools and was NOT satisfied.
But with AKVIS Enhancer, I got immediately good results. I don't know much about all the technical conditions behind, but with some clicks I had an nice HDR-image.
I knew, that AKVIS is good, but now I am really convinced, that AKVIS is more than this, it is superior!

AKVIS Sketch

This is a fantastic plugin. It does everything that I have been trying to accomplish using Photoshop Filters.

AKVIS PlugIns

I have already bought Chameleon, and Noise Buster, then I downloaded Stamp just to try it out. Wow! what a tool! Your filters are just the best, and you are very fair letting us try them for 10 days. Anybody who buys your tools will move their skill level up overnight.
Thank you for all your hard work.

AKVIS PlugIns

Dear AKVIS,
I don't usually give testimonials but your programs have me so excited, I feel I must commend you. I've tried hundreds of plugins in the past and only a few are truly innovative and useful. Yours meets both these goals plus has an interface that is clear and easy to use. That is really an accomplishment not many developers can claim. I especially find your Decorator program useful and the Coloriage program is amazing fun. I look forward to what else your programmers come up with and know they will also be 'a must have' for my collection.
Thanks for so many great products. Looking forward to what you dream up next. I know it will also be a MUST HAVE. Good luck and thanks again.

AKVIS Coloriage

DR SIRS
what wonderful program you have, Coloriage.
Have been struggling for years hand painting photos' and seemingly the turnout was never like this.
looking forward to a great project.

AKVIS PlugIns

If you guys keep on creating this great photoshop addons you're going to put me in the poor house,
just kidding.        KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

Decorator

Decorator is a very cool program. I have spent hours just "playing" with the different settings. I can see where this program would be very useful - for designers, decorators, people remodeling their homes, set designers for plays, and many many more useful and fun projects.
It is amazing how well it follows the pattern and layout of the original object. You can do very realistic textures or you can get very creative and make up your own set of "weird" textures. Thank you!

Sketch

All I can say is that this is the tool that I have been searching for to produce a sketch from my photos. It is outstanding and performs perfectly. It just needs a Preview function.
It produces true sketches when you play with the sliders.

Enhancer

BTW, great program. Really helps liven up the family pics.

Coloriage

I would certainly recommend your software to anyone I know that might utilize the programs. The software is beyond belief, and the support is certainly beyond compare, which is not always the case.
The Akvis programs have already and will continue to be useful to me. Thanks to the programs, I have all of my school pictures that look as if they were made in color! I graduated from high school in 1962, and all my pictures were, of course, black and white.

AKVIS PlugIns

You guys do a wonderful job! Keep up the good work!!!

Sketch

Your sketch plug in is a gas. A buddy thinks I'm a genius. I don't think I'm going to tell him all I did was push a button.

AKVIS PlugIns

First of all I'm not a person who has a great deal of financial resources... just a guy trying to self-learn how to be better at restoring pictures and so on... SO, the fact that I bought your whole plugin set is a big compliment to you!! I played with the trials over a weekend and found great value in them for what I like to do with pictures and such.
Thank you for good service and great products!

AKVIS.com

I'm love this great website. Many thanks guys.

Sketch

I have been using no less than 4 other pieces of software for sketching. I can tell you sincerely that none of them will touch Sketch 1.1. It is the best by far.

AKVIS PlugIns

First of all let me tell you that your software is about the best I have seen in years. Your noise reduction software is better than anything that I have used. Rather than mention the names of other companies, and I have tried them all, yours is the best. I am beginning to recommend it to my fellow ASC cinematographers that are also photoshop users. Where have you been all of these years?

Retoucher & Coloriage

Hi! When I installed the demo and recolored a photo I said wow! That's the plugin!
I've always wondered why developers don't try to match the gray scale of a black and white photo with the color scale? If the grayscale levels could be matched to the color scale the problem could be solved. I think you've done something like this!
Thanks for this ***** 5 star plugin!
Also Retoucher is very very good and a time saving plugin!
I give ***** 5 stars to AKVIS TEAM!

AKVIS.com

Hello. I liked your site very much. Great design and content!

 

AKVIS PlugIns

I very much enjoy using the Akvis plug-ins, which I believe to be the best in the market - very easy to use and yielding superb results. Everyone who deals with digital images should use these products!

 

Retoucher & Coloriage

I tried your product Retoucher and Coloriage and am very impressed. What an outstanding job you have done in creating such an ease of restoration of old photos. It's truly amazing. Thank you very much.

 

Noise Buster

Thanks for giving us digital photographers yet another option in improving the quality of our work.

 

Coloriage

The greatest software of this kind - Pure Magic !!!
I have a lot of old B&W pictures taken with my first 35-mm camera back in the sixties that I like to colorize, because the pictures seem to come alive. I used to colorize in Photoshop Elements using several layers (one for each color) and it worked fine, but it took a lot of time and was tiresome to paint the colors inside the different areas of the photo. It could take hours to colorize a picture.
That is - until I tried AKVIS Coloriage. The program (plugin) is so smart that you only have to mark inside an area (i.e. face or clothes) the color you want, and in some mysterious way AKVIS Coloriage manages to find the areas and fill them with the specified color exact to the area-border. It's like PURE MAGIC, and colorizing a whole picture only takes a few minutes with a little practice.

 

Retoucher

I thank you sincerely for creating the Retoucher plug-in. It has been an enormous help to us in restoring the quality of damaged photos that has historic significance.
Whoever devised it in its current form is a genius and deserves public acknowledgement. It was conceived with the dictum in mind, "simplify, don't complicate," and that in itself is a wonderful achievement. If only other software creators might emulate this rule. All too frequently, the opposite applies, then they can sell tutorial books on how to do this and how to do that, etc.
I salute both the creators of Chameleon and Retoucher and I willingly and wholeheartedly endorse both products without reservation.

 

Chameleon

I am the owner-creator-manager of a web site called "Voices Of The Outback" (www.outbackvoices.com) which has an international readership. It is designed for Australian outback writers, poets, photographers, cartoonists, historians, journalists, etc. in a magazine format.
I have used your Chameleon software (on trial) to achieve various effects and I must say I am much impressed with its capabilities and possibilities. Apart from doing montage/collage work, I would also like in future to restore and colour old historic photographs for display on the web site and to have them preserved for the archives of Heritage Alice Springs and our Community Public Library.

 

Stamp

This software is simply Amazing. I just tried the free trial of Stamp and IT WAS SIMPLE AMAZING. So easy to use and install, so many features. Fixing up image imperfections is easy to do and very quick with this software. I am rushing out to buy the full version to use it for my design business and I will recommend it to everyone. Great product.

 

AKVIS PlugIns

I have been playing around with the software on the 10 day free trial and I was so incredibly pleased with the results that I decided to buy 'em all BEFORE the trial ended. Kudos to your design team...these plugins are better than anything I have in Photoshop!

 

Coloriage

I was STUNNED, SHOCKED and BOWLED OVER by what your software allowed me to achieve. In just one hour I was able to do what would have taken me 4, 5 or more hours manually using Photoshop standard tools.

 

AKVIS company

Akvis is one of those companies that wants you to know what you are buying and how to use it.

 

Chameleon

I just wanted to let you know that I'm having a lot of fun playing with Chameleon. It's a wonderful plugin :-) Thanks for making it!

 

Retoucher

I just tried your 10 day free trial of Retoucher. Totally blew me away!! One of the best software programs I have ever seen. Just ordered the full business version. I'm sold, your guys are incredible!!!

 

Chameleon

Just tried the free download of Chameleon and it great! I was able to Create some really great artwork from this. Just wanted to let you know how easy it was to use. Great work!

 

Retoucher

I spoke of your plugin in the thread at the forums for our online school, Pixelcorps (PXC). This school is for learning multimedia. We often have Photoshop challenges and your plugin was quite helpful in this Restoration challenge. On top of that, it provided me with the thought that I might add Photo Restoration to the list of skills that I can offer clients as I enjoy this type of detail work.

 

Enhancer

I have applied the Enhancer already on some illustrations I am doing for a Handbook of Fracture that I am helping in illustrating for the authors and the publisher McGraw-Hill. The Enhancer was very useful.
I also used it on images of some color photographs which I was unable to improve. The Enhancer again was very useful.

 

Enhancer

I'm amazed at how Enhancer brings out the detail and clarity in photos that are under or overexposed and even those where smog is present.

 

Chameleon

I have really enjoyed the demonstrations of Chameleon's features! This is a beautiful tool.

 

Enhancer

I just love your new filter Enhancer! I can say at once that your filter is the best one I have tried. Gives many possibilities to adjust the image just as I want.

 

Stamp

I have downloaded the trial version of the Stamp tool. I have to say that I am impressed! The tool was easy to use and for being simple, it gives powerful results!

 

Stamp

I had very good use of the Stamp filter today. A friend of mine had made a series of photos of her dogs, but forgot to remove the tick collar, so I helped her with that.
It is a terrific plugin!!! How well it reproduces the fur!!

 

Retoucher

I just got informed of your Retoucher in a newsletter I get. Downloaded the demo and fooled with it for about 30 minutes. I Like It!
It works much better than the healing and scratch and dent removers in Adobe, Corel, Jasc, etc.....Even if I have to clone a little in the end stages of a demanding restoration, your product does an excellent job of reducing my workload. I'm sure I'll be even more pleased after I work with it a little more.
I'm looking forward to spending a little more time with it. I probably don't have much use for Chameleon, but I'll download it and look at it anyway - because, one never knows...

 

Retoucher

Amazing plug-in! It will save HOURS and HOURS of tedious restoration. I can't wait to get the "healing" stamp plug-in when it's available!

 

Retoucher

With the Retoucher, what used to take me hours to complete I can now do in minutes and still have professional looking results.
I use to hate doing restoration of old pictures but now I enjoy doing it - and so does my director and customers.

 

Retoucher

I downloaded your plugin. The results are great! Clone stamp tool is no rival.

 

Retoucher

An amazing product! Everything is so quick and easy! Even though I'm not experienced in graphics I got perfect results. Thank you!

 

Retoucher

I found that the tool was very useful in many cases.
Scratches and letters I don't want to see in the final stage of working with a raster image have been removed quickly and easily - without thinking and exhausting stamping.
The only thing you should do is to press the "Go" button and wait for a moment. It does work!