AKVIS Pastel 6.0 | Turn Photos into Pastel Paintings

AKVIS Pastel is the best software for conversion of photos into pastel paintings. The program turns your image into a lifelike digital art imitating one of the most popular artistic techniques - pastel art.

The pastel technique bridges the gap between painting and drawing. The pastel sticks consisting of powdered pigment generate soft velvety strokes with subtle edges which can be smeared with your fingers. To paint in pastels, you need a rough textured surface which holds the pigment.

A distinctive feature of the pastel technique is the deep vibrant shimmering colors and rich velvety texture. Unlike oil and watercolor paints, pastels don't cover the whole surface. The small gaps let the paper show through the strokes and increase the general picturesque effect.

AKVIS Pastel is a powerful tool to unleash your creativity. Once you load your image in the program, you can choose one of the effect presets or change the pastel settings to create a unique painting. The adjustable effect parameters give you a strong sense of control over your digital art. The software starts creating your new pastel by a mouse click.

The advanced brush tools will help you to refine the result, change the direction of the automatic strokes, strengthen or weaken the pastel effect on different areas, put the finishing touches to your picture.

To obtain a true pastel painting, it's especially important to choose a right surface. Generally, pastel artists use a textured paper. With the software you can put your painting to any surface: sanded paper, MDF board, brick wall, and others.

Using the AKVIS Pastel program, you can not only create a pastel painting from your photo, you can also personalize your artwork by adding a signature, a title, or a greeting.

In addition, a rich library of amazing frames to decorate pastel drawings is accessible directly in the program.

Abstract artworks are hard to look away from; they express the balance between order and chaos, geometry and nature. The Abstract Art tab expands the range of creative opportunities by enabling you to create non-objective pastels in vibrant, vivid colors.

Experiment with shape, form, color and line to make your digital paintings come alive!

The Batch Processing option in the program lets you apply the artistic effect to a folder full of images and automatically convert all pictures. It is a very useful and time-saving feature especially when you need to make a number of drawings at the same style for a site, blog or booklet.

The incredible Timeline feature makes snapshots during photo to painting processing and lets you choose between them.

AKVIS Pastel is available as a standalone program and as a plugin to a photo editor.

The Pastel plug-in is compatible with AliveColors, Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel PaintShop Pro, and other graphics editors, thereby expanding their creative potential. Consult the compatibility page for more details.

The functionality of the program depends on the license type. Some tools are only available for the Home Deluxe and Business licenses. During the trial period you can try all options and choose the license you like.

The software offers a multi-language user interface.