{"id":344,"date":"2011-02-25T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-02-25T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:22:05","slug":"344","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/344\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudeight Freeware Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

FotoSketcher<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>What is it? A photo editor
\nWhat operating systems? Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows Vista, Windows \t\t7
\nHow is it distributed? Freeware, Windows EXE file
\nHow big is the file? 2.9 MB – Dialup users will take about 15 minutes to \t\tdownload it. Broadband users – a second or two.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Have you ever \t\twished you were an artist and could paint or sketch Arcadian scenes or bucolic \t\tlandscapes? Most of us aren’t so talented so we have to rely on the talent \t\tof others to provide us with paintings and sketches. EB was an artist at \t\tone time, but she lost her artistic talent at the age of five when she fell \t\thead-over-heels in love with Robert, a svelte seven year-old from Tasmania. \t\tIt was love at first sight. But, alas, Robert’s parents returned to Tasmania \t\twith their pet devil and EB was heartbroken and never picked up a palette \t\tagain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, \t\tnow, we’ve all wanted to create beautiful works of art but few of us have \t\tthe talent. That’s where this week’s freeware pick of the week can fill \t\tthe void. With it, you can take your digital photographs and turn them into \t\tpen & ink drawings, pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, oil paintings \t\tand more. Best of all you don’t need any talent – just play around with \t\tthe settings until you get the look you wand and click “File” “Save as” \t\t– that’s all the talent you need. And, we’re not kidding when we say that \t\tthis is one of our best freeware picks ever – everyone can have fun with \t\tit and everyone can use it. You don’t have to be a software engineer or \t\teven read the help files to fire this program up and use it the first time. \t\tReally. We’re\u00a0 not kidding! <\/span><\/p>\n

Here, take \t\ta look at something we did in about 45 seconds with FotoSketcher. We could \t\thave made it look even more like a painting had we played around with the \t\tprogram’s slider adjustments a bit more. But, hey, it looks great to us \t\t– how does it look to you?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The picture above was a digital photograph taken at Sandusky Bay and rendered \t\tby FotoSketcher. You can see all kinds of different renderings in the \t\t FotoSketcher gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At \t\tthis time we’d like to introduce FotoSketcher’s creator, Mr. David Thoiron:<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

“FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert \t\tyour digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, \t\tthe photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a \t\tsketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in \t\tjust a few seconds.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks to FotoSketcher you can create stunning images to make original gifts \t\tfor your friends or relatives. Create birthday cards, season’s greetings \t\tstationary or simply print your work of art and hang it on the wall.<\/p>\n

Different styles are available: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various \t\tpainting renderings. You can also improve your original photo with simple \t\ttools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color \t\tsaturation etc…).<\/p>\n

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FotoSketcher is completely free and does not contain any adware, spyware \t\tor virus. It runs on any version of Microsoft Windows (sorry, no Mac version \t\tavailable)…”<\/em><\/p>\n

There you have it, from us and \t\tfrom the program’s author – we will be shocked if you’re not fascinated \t\tand amazed by this really great program with the really great price tag \t\t– $0.00. So, ,if you’re interested in \t\t reading more about FotoSketcher or in downloading it<\/a>, \t\t please visit the FotoSketcher home page right now<\/a>. It’s one of our best \t\tfreeware picks ever.<\/p>\n

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FotoSketcher What is it? A photo editor What operating systems? Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 How is it distributed? Freeware, Windows EXE file How big is the file? 2.9 MB – Dialup users will take about 15 minutes to download it. Broadband users – a second or two. Have you ever wished you\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75,147,150,149,146,148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}