FotoSketcher Studio 4.30 is officially here! 🎉

Hi all,

After a good round of beta and release candidate testing, I am happy to announce that FotoSketcher Studio 4.30 is now available for download. A big thank you to everyone who tested the earlier builds and sent feedback - it really does make a difference.

This version brings two main new effects, a handful of workflow additions and the usual round of polish. 

Watercolor done with the default sample script

Here is what is new.

New LUTs effect 🎨

In the Photo Lab category you will find a new LUTs (Lookup Tables) effect for custom colour grading. It comes with 18 presets built right into the application (Cinematic, Kodachrome, Golden hour, Portrait and more), each with a live preview so you can see the look before applying it. Right-click the preview to compare with your original image. And if you have your own .cube files, you can load those from disk too.

New "Stylize" category

I have added a brand-new Stylize category with four new effects. Three of them (Mosaic, Circles and Triangles) are built on the same space-filling idea, turning your photo into tiled mosaics, clusters of circles, or a low-poly triangle look. The fourth, Cartoon, is a bit different: it gives a clean graphic style with defined lines and solid colours. A little tip - set the colour intensity to 0 and Cartoon draws a pure outline drawing with no fill. Combined with the "Do not erase background" option, you can run it on top of any other effect to add crisp contours in two quick steps.

Auto-Enhance and Full Reset

Two small but handy additions. Auto-Enhance (just press E) tries to optimise your source photo - exposure, white balance, local contrast - for a 'dehazed', natural-looking starting point. And Full Reset clears everything back to a clean slate in one step (working image, history, LUT, script, brushes and sliders) without having to close and reopen the program. Press Ctrl+Shift+N, or right-click the exit button.

Scripts

The script engine has been updated to support all the new effects, with a few new commands and improved help. If you would like some inspiration, the recent scripting tutorial on this blog walks through several ready-made example scripts.

The usual improvements

The interface now uses new colour accents for better readability, the history gallery has had a few tweaks, and you can now open .webp images directly. On top of that, this release includes some performance improvements and a good number of bug fixes.

You can download FotoSketcher Studio 4.30 for free (Windows and MacOS) here: https://fotosketcher.com/download-fotosketcher/

As always, thank you for your support, whether you test early builds, share your artwork, or help keep the project free with a donation. It is all greatly appreciated!

Happy sketching 😊

David