Photo to Cartoon Using Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is well known as bitmap graphics editor like photo editing, cloning, healing, changing from colored to black and white or vice versa, enhancing image properties and much more. But this software is not limited to bitmap alone. It is also useful in transforming image/photo to make it looks like a cartoon image. In this tutorial you will learn the basic, easiest and fastest way of photo to cartoon image transformation.

Here's a sample result of Photo to Cartoon Using Photoshop.

Follow the step by step procedure:

Step 1: Open any focus picture in Adobe Photoshop, you may also download free images here online.

Step 2: Adjust the Brightness and Contrast (it depends on the brightness of the image, the overall image must have a balance brightness/contrast to get good results, if you think its good enough then proceed to Step 3). Click on the Image menu, Adjustment, Brightness/Contrast. (Brightness: -60 Contrast: 20) then click OK.

Step 3: Go to Filter, Artistic, Poster Edges. On the lower left corner play around with the zoom button to view the image clearly. Navigate the Poster Edges slider to define the thickness, intensity and posterization then click OK.

Step 4: Click on Filter, Artistic, Cutout. On the lower left corner play around with the zoom button to view the image clearly. Navigate the Cutout slider to define the number of levels, edge simplicity, edge fidelity then click OK.

Step 5: Save your work. Go to File, Save as, then write the file name and choose the file format then click Save. Most common  file formats are .JPG, .BMP, and .PNG make sure that you also save it in photoshop format .PSD in order for you to edit anytime.

Basic Tips & Tricks:

Press [ to increase brush diameter and ] to decrease.

Press Ctrl + + for zoom in

Press Ctrl + – for zoom out.

Press Ctrl + 0 fit on screen.

Letter after each tool indicates keyboard shortcut (M for Marquee Tools, L for Lasso Tools, W for Wand Tool, C for Crop Tool and so on).

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