Tutorial | Cartoon You

I decided to make a easy tutorial to turn any photo into a cartoon, or comic style image.

I used Photoshop CS6, but I’m pretty sure the steps are similar in most recent pS editions.

1.  Open an image

File>Open>choose the image

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2.  Convert it to Black and White

Image>Adjustments>Black and White>make any customizations you would like within the menu

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3.  Use the Posterize function

Images>Adjustment>Posterize>3 levels

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4.  Make it an Outline Only

Filter>Filter Gallery>Stylize>Glowing Edges

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5. Invert so you can see what you made!

Image>Adjustments>Invert

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6.  Color that thing in!

Markers, crayons, paint or digital paint…

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Hey! I’m a cartoon!

Cartoon you was one of the assignments that randomly came up on the design assignment page and it’s worth 2 stars.  For this assignment I choose a picture of myself and made it look cartoonish using Photoshop.  To create this picutre I had to go through a lot of steps.  Cartooning the picture wasn’t the difficult part, but I was concerned about the quality of the picture.  The original picture I used was very poor quality, so I chose Photoshop to enhance the coloring, add brightness, crop it, change the lighting and the background to a darker color so that the image would stand out and AFTER all of that I finally decided to use the cartoon option to make my picture a cartoon looking one.  With the choice of making a cartoon picture I also had to choose what kind of shading I wanted to picture to have, but the overall quality of the picture turned out great.  I’m really pleased with the work I did, specially spending the time to make the original picture better in order to increase the quality of the overall project.

Cartoon me

I loved how the picture came out and I love my flower dress that I was wearing :P

“2 STAR DESIGN ASSIGNMENT # 4? “CARTOON YOU”

The “Cartoon You”  assignment was the most fun for me then the others in my perspective !! I had a very great experience trying to figure out how to turn myself into a cartoon character or animated version. So I basically just surfed the web and found websites that could turn my real life photo into a animation. So I used Picnik.com and from there I uploaded my photo, went to effects and used the effect called “sketch tool” which is located all the way on the bottom of the effects tab once you scroll down. Their are plenty of other effects you could use as well on your images which is so much fun! The sketching effect was my favorite of course!! Here is my original picture, and the animated version ^_^ !!!

Cartoon You

Remake you (or someone you know and love) into a cartoon character. Draw you on a piece of paper, on a tablet, take a photo and use software to convert it to comic book style, or use online programs to create a cartoon version of your character. Extra bonus points if you can come up with an origin story or add comic book elements to your final image.