AKVIS Sketch - 6.5

I started using this back when it was version 3. I used the 10 day trial and posted a bunch of pictures to the different art gallery sites I post to and many people liked the way my artwork looked and I started to tell them what I was using. I then contacted the guys who made it and told them about my pictures and that I had been advertisiing it by way of word of mouth and they asked if I could send some examples of my work and a small tutorial on how I mad the pictures. I did and they gave me a home license so I thought "Hey, that was really cool of them" so I did some more stuff and they gave me a full license for the program. I didn't pay the price and have always thought it was a little steep.. They have updated this a bunch of times and have made a few changes, some I liked, some I found useless for my type of artwork. They continued to honor my license up to Version 9 and then have decided I had enough "FREE" so I would now have to pay to upgrade.. Even though 9 and up has some new features that I think are very nice I still feel the price is too high so I won't be upgrading unless I can get a reduced price as I still tell people all about the plugin.. I must say that the plugin when used in photoshop does seem a little touchy and will either crash or just locks up and won't save but the stand alone has always worked fine for me. I don't work for the company and would never recommend something that I would not use myself so we can kill the talk of me being a shill and as you can see not all of my review is on a positive note (ie. the price and the crashing of the plugin.) this program does however make some of the best sketch and paint simulations of any of the Mac programs I have ever found.. If only it would come down in price and fix the plugin part of this item.. I might be convinced to buy in at 30 or 35 dollars US but not at the high price it has at present.. You would think they would make a lot more money with a lowered price as their sales would probably be a 400% increase with a more reasonable price... I am not upset that they won't give me a free upgrade because they were so good about my license through 6 versions and the changes they made and the increased quality of the end results are worth an upgrade... JUST not at that high a price... so if you are a rich guy and don't care abourt price so much as results I highly recommend this product but if you are an average kind of guy like myself then I am afraid we will both be out of luck....sorry akvis but I had to be honest...

I have been using this plugin almost every day since I installed it... and now they made it even better! If you haven't tried Akvis Sketch, you don't know what you are missing. Every Photoshop friend I have has become addicted to the Sketch plugin. The developers listen to the users and keep making it better with each release. Try it, buy it, and thank me later.