maximumfitness

hi everybody

is there a way or a (plugin), (program), (tutorial) on how to make a picture look cartoonish?

thanks

retired_paddza

Depends on what you exactly mean by "cartoonish". Combinations of settings while running filter >artistic > cutout and then blurring and noise>median can give you a cell shaded look. Depends on the style you want and the original you are working with.

Maybe posting some examples would be helpful so we can get a better idea of what you are trying to do.

Sanby

Yeah, I agree it does depend on the style you are looking for. There are a few filters in PS that can do a certain cartoonish style.

May not be what you are looking for, it is very blocky but try filters>artistic>cutout

Sanby

maximumfitness

lets say a photograph of a person sitting in a chair.....?

retired_paddza

It's not so much the subject of the picture, when I said that it has to do with what you're doing it do, I was more talking about the lighting and contrast of the picture. That's why it's kind of a case by case basis.

Try things like the cutout filter, try doing a gaussian blur and then posterizing. Try duplicating the layer and doing a median filter on the image then super impose at reduced opacity another layer based on the luminocity channel of an L*a*b image to bring back the details. It's mostly experimentation.

What you're trying to do is flatten out the gradiation between tones. Cartoons often are simply filled with one color rather than subtle gradiations in color. So if you want to make an image look cell shaded, you want to get rid of those gradual tone shifts. Posterize and cutout do just that, it's just that they might not give you the exact effect you want, so you'll have to fine tune it.

maximumfitness

okie doke, i'll see what i can come up with

many thanks

maximumfitness

kinda, sorta, in a way.........

Sanby

Looking good, Even if it's not the exact effect you wanted, it still loks cartoony.

Sanby

Geoff

hey thats great there's a tut exactly like that in the tutorial thread, i don't know if you used that or not [excited] [excited]

wbiss

Hi Bobzworld!

"Poster Edge" is a good filter for this sort of thing.... once you've got your rough picture, you can colourise (simplify) the extra shading.

Here's an example to the extreme (with no tweaking)...