My Sketch - Pencil Sketches

I really like this app. It uses a lot of different effects to create hand drawn effects of your pictures. The only reason I rated it 4 instead of five is because I had a super hard time figuring out how to just save it to my photos album! It wants you to share on social media - but I finally got it to save to photos! If the developers make it easier to just save the image - I would give it a 5 star rating. If you draw and understand the different techniques that they offer for your effects of your photos, you will enjoy this apps sophistication of drawing skill. The only other tho g that bothered me is that I crop my images carefully and want to include All of my image in the effect- this app ends the effect and leaves part of your image faded out- or missing in the artistic drawing effect. Some of its filter effect do give you the entire image, but you really need to try them to find them.

This is the first time I have left a review for an app that was not offering me an inducement. I have an odd hobby...I collect photo (and video) editing apps. Currently, I have over 90 that I actively use. My Sketch is THE zest of the bunch. There are many fine ones, but this is the first to be a work of art in and of itself. It makes you happy to work with it. This is one fantastic app. You will not be disappointed.

I agree with the other reviewer. This is a great app and I particularly like that is one of the few drawing apps that allow you to process a photo in a format other than a square — but I cannot figure out how to save to my Camera Roll. I’m always having to email the images to myself so that I can then save them to the Camera Roll. I gather that there is a way to do it directly but I haven’t been able to figure it out. Please make it more clear within the app and, in the meantime would you post instructions as part of your listing on iTunes. Your users are tearing their hair out over this issue!

Search for "pencil sketch" on the App Store and you will get a ton of terrible apps that all use the exact same filters. This is not one of them. This one has a pleasant, non-obnoxious interface. No bugs. No nagging to rate it or buy upgrades. It has some pretty ok filters. If I want an edge detection-based filter I think I'll use this app. It doesn't have any real sketch filters that use strokes. It instead has a scan of a piece of paper with scribbles on it and composites your photo over it in black and white. Kind of a joke if you want a pencil sketch but it's an ok look if that's what you want.

My Sketch is a great tool for making your profile picture stand out. It does an admirable job converting photos into sketches - better than any of the other free apps I've tried. And it doesn't try to sell you add-ons. That said, I can think of 3 ways to improve it. 1. Give us square as an alternative to rectangle. This is the age of Instagram and profile photos on Facebook. 2. Let the user choose between a sketch with a border and a full image sketch. 3. Add a third slider to adjust the hue of the sketch. Or possibly a pop-up range of color choices. My Sketch is very impressive as is, and these options would make it even better. Especially square images. 5 stars because it does a great job and it's absolutely free.