{"id":18726,"date":"2020-02-13T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=18726"},"modified":"2020-02-14T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:13:48","slug":"18726-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/18726-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FotoSketcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 28pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">FotoSketcher<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Have you ever wished you were an artist and could paint or sketch Arcadian scenes or beautiful bucolic landscapes? Most of us aren\u2019t so talented;\u00a0 we have to rely on the talent of others to provide us with beautiful paintings and sketches, and other works of art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But I think at some time or other, we\u2019ve all wanted to create beautiful works of art but only a few of us have the talent. That\u2019s where our freeware pick \u201cFotoSketcher\u201d can help. With it, you can take your digital photographs and turn them into pen &amp; ink drawings, pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, oil paintings and more. Best of all you don\u2019t need any talent \u2013 just play around with the settings until you get the look you want and click \u201cFile\u201d \u201cSave as&#8221;, give it a name and that\u2019s it! That\u2019s all the talent you need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And, we\u2019re not kidding when we say that this is one of our best freeware picks ever \u2013 everyone can have fun with it and everyone can use it. You don\u2019t have to be a software engineer, a computer expert\u2026 heck, you don\u2019t even need to read the help files to use FotoSketcher. Just fire it up and use it. Play around and you\u2019ll create something unique. Honest! We\u2019re not kidding!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here, take a look at some of the things we did while we were testing FotoSketcher. None of these took more than a couple of minutes to do. We could have made these look even better had we taken more time and messed around the program&#8217;s slider adjustments and settings a bit more. But, hey, it looks great to me &#8211; how do these look to you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Below you can see FotoSketcher&#8217;s simple, clean, and modern interface. It even comes with a bird to help you get started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/fotosketch.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudeight Freeware Pick: FotoSketcher\" width=\"588\" height=\"469\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We took a picture of a seascape with a lighthouse&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/fotosketch1.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudeight Freeware Pick: FotoSketcher\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And made it look a more like a painting than a photograph&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/fotosketch1a.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudeight Freeware Pick: FotoSketcher\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And playing around with FotoSketcher a bit more, we made it look like a watercolor painting&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/fotosketch1b.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudeight Freeware Pick: FotoSketcher\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And how about a pencil sketch?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/fotosketch1d.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudeight Freeware Pick: FotoSketcher\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And here&#8217;s a photo of Sandusky Bay that looks a bit like an oil painting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/fotosketch2.jpg\" alt=\"Cloudeight Freeware Pick: FotoSketcher\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I created all of the variations of the pictures shown above in just a minute or two using FotoSketcher.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How about a word from the developer of FotoSketcher?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">About FotoSketcher<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Message from David, creator of FotoSketcher<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">FotoSketcher is a 100% free program for Windows (there is also an experimental version for MacOS) which converts your digital photos into art automatically and in just a few mouse clicks. Over 20 different styles are available from pencil sketches to watercolor or oil paintings, pen &amp; ink drawings, abstract art and cartoons. From photo to painting (landscapes, architecture, portraits, etc.) in seconds!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You can also improve your original photos with simple tools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation etc\u2026) and add simple or realistic frames and text.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">For advanced users, some more powerful tools allow you to batch process several images, manually retouch some areas of your pictures, combine multiple filters and even create your own effects by using the script function.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">FotoSketcher is completely free (even for commercial use, if you wish to sell your pictures) and does not contain any adware, spyware or virus. It runs on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and the latest Windows 10 (an experimental Mac version is also available from the download page).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I have created FotoSketcher as a fun project and I hope that you will enjoy using it&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">FotoSketcher comes as a standard Windows installer and as a portable version (no installation needed- just click and run). You can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotosketcher.com\/\">learn more about FotoSketcher here<\/a><\/span>. The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fotosketcher.com\/download-fotosketcher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download page is here<\/a><\/span>. Have fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Note from us to the developer of FotoSketcher: <\/strong><em>T<\/em><em>hank you, David, for all the time you spend creating this program and for your generosity in giving it away free.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; FotoSketcher Have you ever wished you were an artist and could paint or sketch Arcadian scenes or beautiful bucolic landscapes? Most of us aren\u2019t so talented;\u00a0 we have to rely on the talent of others to provide us with beautiful paintings and sketches, and other works of art. But I think at some time or other,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/18726-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1668,3602],"tags":[3798,153,3799,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18726"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18742,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18726\/revisions\/18742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}