Fotosketcher

[solo]

Hey guys, I know there are several threads regarding Fotosketcher, I remember I even downloaded it a while back but never really played with it, well recently I became interested when seeing Davidh's thread of amazing watercolors so I decided because I suck at Photoshop I will dust off Fotosketcher and give it a little stretch.

I found a great preset script online from Fotosketchers Facebook page and modified it slightly and I really like the results. I can share the script if y'all want and explain how to use it.

Here are some old renders of mine that have new life.

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[Rich O Brien]

DaveR has some cool presets also.

Sent from my iPad

[solo]

@rich o brien said:

DaveR has some cool presets also.

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Well then this could be a great thread to share.

When in Fotosketcher press F5 to open the script window, select load a script and navigate to the location you unzipped this script to, select and hit 'run script'.

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Zipped because board does not upload .fss files

[solo]

@unknownuser said:

Thx to the French guy who has created this true gem!

Fotosketcher (more 5 millions of downloads! )

Whith this free program anybody can be an artist!

Brilliant, I'd pay for this.

[pilou]

Thx to the French guy who has created this true gem!

Fotosketcher (more 5 millions of downloads! )

With this free program anybody can be an artist!

[Ben Ritter]

Solo, thanks for sharing. Will give this a try.

[Ben Ritter]

Solo, my version of Fotosketcher (current version 2.41) is asking for an fsk file. It wouldn't work by simply changing the file extension to .fsk.

[solo]

I'm using same version (new version), strange, I got the .fss from Fotosketcher and when I navigate to it in the script window it looks for .fss on my side.

[Rich O Brien]

Are you running the portable or installed version.

I've the portable and it needs .fsk drawing parameter files

[Rich O Brien]

My bad.....

.fss is something different to .fsk

I didn't know about the new scripting feature as compared to the old way of sharing .fsk files for custom parameters.

Pete is 100% correct on v2.4+ you can load a .fss using F5 to open the scripting box.

[Ben Ritter]

My bad too. It's a shame I don't know how to read your instructions. I was assuming that loading parameters was no different than loading a script. That's the difference in file extensions.

Thanks again.

[Rich O Brien]

Intensive Pastel sketch that applies watercolour, 2 layers of oil-painting and a pastel sketch....

Intensive Oil painting that doesn't apply the last pastel rendering....

[pbacot]

What's the "portable" version? I looked at the site but didn't find it.

[Rich O Brien]

it doesn't install. it just runs from a folder or usb stick

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[Dave R]

Pete, the images are very nice. I'll have to try that script. Thank you.

Thanks Rich.

[jsmith]

Thanks Solo for alerting us. I didn't have the latest version, and downloaded it. The scripts are a fantastic new tool. Thanks also to David Thoiron for developing and continued improvement of this freeware.