As promised I have just uploaded an early beta of FotoSketcher 2.00. Here is the download link: http://www.fotosketcher.com/FotoSketcher_beta.exe
It is still a bit rough around the edges and only supports English and French for the time being. The undo/redo function is also a little bit funny sometimes.
BUT apart from that it is perfectly usable and as far as I know stable.
Now for the goodies! The new features present are:
- Crop
- Rotate (in 90° increments, lossless)
- improved interface (12 skins and flicker-free icons)
- one-click automatic contrast adjustment (based on histogram stretch and unsharp mask)
- check for updates
- automatic saving of window size, position and chosen skin
- 4 new realistic frames
- more responsive preview
- new custom brushes loading for Painting 7 effect
- new old photo effect (sepia, vignette, old photo texture)
All the best,David
22 comments:
I tested the new version, it worked very well.
Thanks for your feedback Ari ;-)
Looks real good, David!
Found textures a bit wonky -- Right arrow goes up to 9, click left arrow and you have 10 - 9- 8, etc.
Really like the new frames.
Played with all the 'skins'. Don't do ITunes. So is it common that the close button is on the right as opposed to on the left in all the other skins?
This program just keeps getting better and better. Thank you.
Bonsoir David
Je me suis fait un plaisir de télécharger ta nouvelle version mais impossible de l'installer sur mon PC le programme plante à l'exécution.
Mais je vais persévérer!!!
Avec mes amitiés provençales.
Jean
Well spotted Gene. I had never noticed this bug with the texture numbers. As for the iTunes skin, it might be a bit confusing with the close button. I'll put another skin instead.
Thanks for your help :-)
Bonjour Jean,
Aaargh, c'est bizarre ce plantage... Y-a-t'il un message d'erreur ?
Bonjour David
Le message "Foto...a cessé de fonctionner...window recherche une solution....etc..."
La version 1.98 marche très bien mais la 2.00 ne veut rien savoir.
Amitiés aubagnaises.
Jean
I've just uploaded a new beta version (3 MB lighter).
-> Jean : j'espère que cette version fonctionnera mieux
Great fun to play with the new toy.
A few small things:
In cartoon 1, some of the setting have no effect until >150, then they kick-in (edge strength, for eg) (I think it might have been like this for a while).
In the loadable brush strokes, isn't black supposed to be transparent, with opaqueness coming in to 100% with white? - I've found a few jpg brushes of mine that have square boxes all around the brushes - or is it this way while it's painting, and gets 'cleaned-up' after the finish?
Great beta though!
Hi Barry,
Thanks for testing the beta. Regarding brushes, it's actually the opposite. The white (or very light gray) part of the brush is completely transparent. The darker pixels are more opaque.
Basically, FS compatible brushes need to be black on a white background.
Thanks mate - I forgot that bit, it explains it all!
Un grand merci David tout baigne !!! ça marche !!!
Passe un bon WE avec toute mes amitiés
Jean
Excellente nouvelle!
Bon week-end également,
David
Now that I've fixed my stupidity with negative brushes, here's a sample of the brush loading thingy.
brush - http://i53.tinypic.com/2cr9amu.jpg
image - http://i51.tinypic.com/xbbbzl.jpg
painting - http://i52.tinypic.com/11gq8uq.jpg
It looks better at 4400 than 3200, but you can still see the strokes..
As an aside, David, can you increse the number of strokes allowed to 255 (like the other slider), if you set brush minimum size to 1,2,3,4,5, i feel it's not giving enough strokes, maybe?
I hate to be a pest - could you also change the auto generated save as name to "filename - fotosketcher.jpg" or "filename - .jpg" - it makes it easy to compare pix when you try lots of styles on the one picture.
(This new thing would REALLY benefit from a multi core approach, it's very slow - and that's NOT a complaint, just an observation)
Not found any real bugs yet either.
Merci David !
Superbe travail!
Je vais tester ta nouvelle mouture plus attentivement bientôt. J'aimerais apporter une suggestion :
- Serait-il possible d'ajouter un outil "zoom" avec un "+" et un "-" (plus-moins) pour agrandir la vignette (thumbnail) dans la fenêtre de pré-visualisation ?
Je travaille avec des images parfois très grandes et il m'est difficile de pré-visualiser l'effet souhaité. Je dois donc le tester et c'est parfois très long.
Merci encore !
Hi Barry,
Good suggestions! I'll definitely look into them (perhaps not in version 2.00, but maybe in the next one).
Bonjour Peter,
Je vais voir s'il est possible facilement de faire un zoom sur la fenêtre de prévisualisation (tout en conservant un temps de traitement raisonnable). La aussi, ce sera peut-être pour la version 2.1 !
Really like Fotosketcher. Just one small request. It would be nice to have a "zoom" button to view the whole image (including frame) to save keep zooming in and out.
Hi Stargazey,
You're in luck, there are actually 2 ways to view the whole image:
- you can simply double-click on the image to view it in full screen mode
- or you can right-click on the middle magnifying glass icon to best fit it to the panel (each panel can be resized by moving the divider with the mouse)
Ahh - I did find a bug..
Cartoon 1 (at least) with texture setting to medium or strong and about 4 texture right clicks gives NO texture at all in final picture (maybe on other texture setting too, but this is the one I tried and failed on).
Hi Barry,
Well spotted, thanks!
I've corrected this bug and will soon upload a new beta.
Hi David!
I have enjoyed using Fotosketch over the last year. Is there any chance of a version for iPod Touch, iPad etc?
Thanks
Hi,
I have no plans to port FotoSketcher to the iPad (or iPod) for the time being (Windows only).
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