Adobe Photoshop Cartoon Effect Plugin

There is a cartoon effect in After Effects. If you join the Creative Cloud you will have access to After Effects. You can do it with Photoshop actions as well. Sep 30, 2013  Photoshop Cartoon Effect in 5 Minutes or Less. September 30, 2013 by Bryan Wilde. Mastering Adobe Photoshop Filters explains the Smart Blur tool in more detail. As you can see in the example, you want to retain the features but smooth out the all the highlights and lines. There are other ways to create cartoon effects in Photoshop, many.

Updated by Kate M. On February 28, 2014 Cartoon and comic effects from Photoshop are not only fun, but will make you look like an artistic pro.

There are tons of ways to use these: a personal greeting card, on your Facebook page, or even a coffee cup that Walgreens can make for less than ten bucks. This technique is easy, relatively quick, and certainly painless.

Let’s get going! Let’s make a few assumptions before we start: You have a basic understanding of Photoshop and know your way around, you’ve explored the artistic filters, you understand what layers, are and you aren’t afraid of blowing up the program. (It may give you the black screen of death if you run out of memory, but it won’t explode.) Check out the to get the most out of this tutorial and most importantly, don’t be afraid to experiment! How to “Cartoonify” Your Portraits The first thing you’ll need is a high-resolution image of a person that you want to turn into a cartoon. Uncle Bubba or Aunt LouAnn are always good choices because they like seeing themselves in anything.

The image should be clear and sharp with good detail and fairly flat skin tones. Don’t worry too much about the background, as you’ll get some unexpected but interesting effects with objects behind the person. But just make sure your subject has well-defined facial features without excessive contrast (no heavy shadows). These shadows may not translate well into the cartoon effect techniques explained here. Boring portrait photos don’t make for good cartoons, either. If you have a choice, pick the one of Bubba drinking beer, sitting on the bumper of his ’68 Chevy. Open your image in Photoshop and immediately duplicate your background layer by right clicking it in the Layers Palette; then choose Duplicate Layer from the pop-up menu.

This protects the original file from being accidentally destroyed or getting otherwise discombobulated. Next, you want to reduce skin textures and smooth out your image using Smart Blur. At the top of the Photoshop window, navigate to Filters>Blur>Smart Blur. The dialog box that pops up presents you with four primary options including Radius, Threshold, Quality and Mode. The best way to find out what these options do is to just play around with them (as with most all other filters in Photoshop), but for now, the following values will work reasonably well for this step: • Radius: 19.8 • Threshold: 31.4 • Quality: Low • Mode: Normal explains the Smart Blur tool in more detail.

As you can see in the example, you want to retain the features but smooth out the all the highlights and lines. Already by using the blur filter, you can see the beginning of the cartoon. Next, we’ll adjust the contrast. This can be quickly accomplished as a Levels adjustment.