SketchMee 4+
The original sketch filter
Studio Mee
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- £7.99
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Description
SketchMee is the most advanced automatic pencil sketch generator in the world, but very easy to use and super fast. Sketches are actually drawn, stroke by stroke, on a blank paper.
SketchMee was selected by Apple as a main front page feature app in Mac App Store, March 2011.
The successful SketchMee apps for iPhone and iPad have redefined what's possible to achieve in computer generated art with just a few taps, leaving even desktop computer software behind. Until now, that is.
SketchMee on a Mac brings the technology to a whole new level. The processing power enables the algorithms to shift into higher gears and generate new and incredible results. What became possible surprised even ourselves during development!
EASY TO USE
All you need to do is to open an image file. It is then automatically processed with the great default settings. Then just save the result.
The somewhat more advanced user may want to change some settings in the control panel. A small number of well balanced, very powerful controls are available for you to try out. A good way to start experimenting is to try the 10 built-in presets on your photos by pressing Cmd-1, Cmd-2 etc. And should you find your own favorite settings, store them as new presets.
If you want to use only a part the input image, just click "Crop Input…", select a width-to-height ratio, zoom, pan, and crop. Reset crop at any time to restore the original input image.
UNIQUE FEATURES
Traditional image filters just produce an image the same size as the input, but not SketchMee: A sketch is made up of thousands of mathematically defined pencil strokes, layered in clever ways to achieve the correct amount of shading in every part of the image. This powerful approach enables some unique features:
• Regardless of the size of your input image, your sketch can be saved as a 16 megapixel, perfectly sharp, high quality JPEG, fit for any use.
• Even if you crop your sketch heavily (click "Crop Output…"), you can save the remaining sketch fragment as a sharp, full resolution, 16 megapixel JPEG.
• Zoom in as deep as you like to inspect the strokes. They appear perfectly crisp at any zoom level.
HIGH SPEED
SketchMee performs the highly complex processing in parallel, making full use of every processor core in your Mac. Both when analyzing the input images and when rendering the finished sketches to screen at any zoom level, all to keep waiting times at a minimum. Processing is often finished in seconds!
GO PRO?
SketchMee Pro is now also available. It enables some very powerful features attractive to professional or advanced users, the main additions being *extremely* high resolution output, layered Photoshop PSD output, and vector PDF output! Also available in the Mac App Store.
What’s New
Version 1.6.1
- Fixed a but which could hang app during fast settings changes.
Ratings and Reviews
Disappointing
Bought as an impulse purchase and I rather wish I'd downloaded a demo first. Maybe it is very dependent on the original image, but I tried a number of images and various presets and never got a result that I liked. Not worth the disk space and now deleted.
Best app for a fiver to date!
Bought this as an impulse buy (priced right for that!) and based on a combination of the screenshots and reviews - and boy, am I glad I did!! As others have said, the app is lightning quick, extremely simple to use and produces results far better than many Photoshop plug ins costing far more. The results, while a little hit or miss depending on the original image (some images just end up better than others, irrespective of how settings are played with), are good in most cases and I would go as far as to say excellent in a couple. While the interface is simple (read few options to tinker with), I feel it could have been a bit better laid out, though everything is straightforward to use.
Positives:
+ Simple
+ Quick
+ Great results
+Dirt cheap!
Negatives:
- User interface could be a little better
- Would benefit from a couple of additional control options
- Output can be a little hit or miss depending on input
Overall, though, I am delighted with this app. I very much hope that it is expanded and further improved (additional "painting" styles, highlighting of primary feature lines, curved hatching, improved "blends" (some images show too much "stepping" between colour gradients) and that furthersimilar apps are developed. If the quality can be maintained and more apps/features developed, this could give the folks at Adobe a few headaches!!
Nice app need a 'save preset' option big time!
A good effort , these apps plugins are rarely worth getting but this is one of the better ones. Worth the money but the ability to save a setting you like is needed, at the moment im have to screen cap my settings.
It's about its money but put next to some plugins you can by it is quite reasonable, and out does a lot of them to be fair.
If this is continued to be updated, but not over developed, I could see it doing very well on the Mac app store.
I would recommend it if you need this effect alot. You need to play with your setting extensively to get the best otu of this, but you are rewarded with some good effects.
The draw time is good as well, pretty fast on my 2008 imac 3ghz 4gb ram.
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Information
- Provider
- Studio Mee
- Size
- 20.5 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.7 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2018 Studio Mee
- Price
- £7.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.