About Gertrudis Pro
Gertrudis Pro is an image manipulation software of a different
kind. It takes your digital camera pictures (or any other picture)
and transforms it to beautiful works of art that look like
everything from watercolors to oils and crayons to pastels.
The product is created by Gertrudis Graphics, an Argentina
based design software company that also creates several other
versions of Getrudis such as Gertrudis PS (converts pictures
to vector strokes).
My contact at Gertrudis Graphics for this review was Enrique
Nieloud - thank you, Enrique.
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Download and Installation
You can learn more and download a demo version of Gertrudis
Pro from
the product's web site...
The demo version is identical to the full version, but it
only allows you to work with the pictures provided with the
product. If you want to apply the effects to your own pictures
and save them (which you certainly want to after playing
with the demo!), you'll have to buy a copy of the product.
Installation is quick - and it creates a Gertrudis Pro group
in your Windows Start Menu.
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Using Gertrudis Pro
When you open an image in Gertrudis Pro, you will see two
panels as shown in the screensot below:
The left panel shows the original image and the right panel
shows a blank canvas. As you work with the image, the right
panel will show the modified image.
At the bottom of the working area, there are four panels
from where you can select the tool, size, color, and style.
Once you select the brush and the required style and colour
you are ready to create your modified image.
You can either apply the chosen style to the entire image
or just to a brush stroke that you draw on the right panel.
If you use the second method, you will be able to see the
image converting to a beautiful painting, and the best part
is that in-between this ,odification, you can switch to some
other style and also change the brightness, contrast and
saturation of the brush. All put together, this is truly
powerful stuff. The screenshot below shows what I was able
to accomplish in under five minutes.
You can save your finished painting to several file formats
including JPEG, BMP and TIFF. Moreover, you can save the
output to a much larger canvas and resolution than your original
image since Gertrudis Pro can save those strokes to any resolution
required! So the low resolution image you took with that
cheap digital camera can actually become a large sized print
that can be framed up and put up in your living room!
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End Note
Gertrudis Pro is priced at US$ 67 - support is by email.
From Monday to Friday, most responses are answered within
24 hours.
For its price Gertrudis Pro is a great product - and a perfect
complement to Adobe Photoshop or any other image editor.
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