JixiPix Pastello Pro 6.0.106

Pastello Pro takes a photo and turns it into a pastel, chalk, charcoal, colored pencil, graphite or crayon drawing, then places the result on art paper with options to customize. There is no brush work to learn and no manual tracing: the app's pro workflow performs the transformation on its own, and everything after that is a matter of taste. Seven dry media are built to behave like the real thing, and any of them can be stacked into layers for an expressive sketch effect filled with colorful personality and depth.

Media that behave like real drawing tools
Pastel has a soft, buttery consistency and intense color that sits dense in the grain of the paper, a quality artists find especially good for plein air landscapes. Chalk gives a light, dusty hard-pastel effect with little specks of preserved paper and a velvety texture. Charcoal produces a velvety black effect with shades of grey, useful for warming up an underpainting or finishing a charcoal piece. Colored Pencil lays down soft colorful strokes that can be layered and then burnished with a light Pencil Layer or the Smudge tool, while Pencil draws fluid outlines with soft, limpid tonal shadings. Conté enhances highlights, midtones and shadows in five classic colors, with crosshatching and scumbling. Crayon builds a colorful waxy base that can be burnished with Conté White for highlights or Bistre for shading. Each medium keeps its own control over stroke size, stroke volume, color and other refinements.

Layers, paper and finishing
A Da Vinci effect mixes five fully customizable medias onto aged paper for an old-world appearance, and one-click presets let you start quickly while keeping full freedom to customize, blend and fine-tune. Smart Layers blend pastel styles with options to reorder, duplicate and delete them, and a Fill Layer lets you hand-brush color and texture into the drawing. The Paper Layer reacts to dry media the way real paper would, so the more you layer a medium the more it fills into the paper's texture, and smart links globally unify color and finishes across all layers. Smart Brushes and a Smudge Brush handle touch-ups, and Brush Masking inverts, clears or fills brushed areas.

• Seven dry media effects: pastel, chalk, charcoal, conté, colored pencil, pencil and crayon, each true to real media.
• Da Vinci effect: mixes five fully customizable medias onto aged paper for an old-world appearance.
• Stroke technology: inspired by real-world pastellists.
• Smart Layers: blend pastel styles, then reorder, duplicate or delete them.
• Fill Layer: brush color and texture into the drawing by hand.
• Paper Layer: reacts to dry media like real paper does.
• Smart Brushes and Smudge Brush: touch up strokes and smear media for a softer appearance.
• Brush Masking: invert, clear or fill in brushed areas.
• Presets: one-click starts, customizable presets and a User Preset category for your own style.
• Favorite presets: marked presets move to the front of the list.
• Papers and finishes: 5 paper textures, 41 artistic and aged papers and 70 artistic finishes for adding light and color.
• Smart links: globally unify color and finishes across all layers.
• 24 artistic edges: sketchy vignettes with options for edge stroke size and blend.
• Plugin: for Photoshop CS3+, Lightroom and Elements.

Bring the timeless look of dry media to your next photo — get Pastello Pro and start with a preset or build your own artwork layer by layer.