Tutorial: AKVIS Sketch

Quiet Harbor: a Watercolor Painting from a Landscape Photo

The author of this tutorial is Manfred Altenkirch. He created a watercolor painting from a landscape photo using AKVIS Sketch.

Source image	Result

Manfred uses the Sketch plugin in this tutorial, but you can take the standalone edition.

Let's follow his steps to achieve the same result.

• Step 1. Open the image in Irfanview, or you can use any other photo editor compatible with AKVIS plugins.
  
• Step 2. Call AKVIS Sketch from the menu of the photo editor Filter->Akvis->Sketch.

  When the plug-in window opens, press the button .

  The photo will be converted into a pencil drawing with the default settings. The resulting pencil sketch will be shown in the After tab.

  
• Step 3. Reduce the value of the parameter Midtones hatching=50 to reduce the intensity in the midtone areas and press the button , to see the changes.
  
• Step 4. Move the slider of the Watercolor=9 to blur the image a bit. Press the button . Here is the result:
  
• Step 5. Let's add color to the image. Increase the value of Coloration=21. Press the button again.
  
• Step 6. To apply the result to the image and close the plugin window press the button .

  Here is the final result:

  

  You can add a photo frame if you like. Use the tools of Photoshop or, which is faster, the program AKVIS ArtSuite.