Photoshop Tutorial Changing Photos Become a Cartoon

Tutorial Index:

• Part 1: Creating Outline
• Part 2: Coloring Board
• Part 3: Giving Shading
• Part 4: Staining

You often wonder to myself how to make a cool cartoon pictures as much scattered on the internet? Curious to try to make their own cartoon picture but do not know how? Trying to find tutorials that explain how to make it but did not find a match to your taste?

Relax, now you've found it!

In this tutorial will explain the steps to change your favorite photo into a cartoon photo using Photoshop.

But before that you must remember is that the process of making a cartoon photo (kartunisasi photo) is an activity that requires patience and time. However, the results will be very satisfying indeed.

Is still keen to give it a try?

Well then, let's get started ...

In this tutorial we will use a photo of Rihanna.

This is the original photo

And this is the end result of this tutorial later

First of all, download the first real photo of Rihanna here . 

Step 1: Prepare the 'canvas work'

1.  Rihanna Open the original photo in Adobe Photoshop. (This tutorial wears Adobe Photoshop CS. I do not have other versions of Adobe Photoshop, but I think the steps that are described in this tutorial applies also in other versions)

In choosing photos to be dikartunkan, choose sharp photos (focus) and a detailed face clearly visible. Photos are blurry, somewhat blurry, or that tend to be dark, not a good choice. The larger the image resolution is getting better.

2.  On the 'Layers Palette', drag and drop the layer 'background' button to the 'New Layer' to make a duplicate of the layer.  

Change the name of the new layer they will be 'original'. (To rename a layer, right click on the layer name and choose Layer Properties).

Layer 'original' we used to 'store' the original image, so that if at any time it takes the original image is still there.

3.  Lock this layer (click the 'lock all' ), and turn off its visibility.  

4.  Double click the layer 'background'. Click 'OK'.

5.  Make a new layer. Change the name to 'background'. We will use this layer as the background color for our cartoon photo. Fill this layer with orange color using the Paint Bucket tool.

6.  Move this layer to the bottom.

Up to this stage the layers we look as follows:

Step 2: Eliminate The Unwanted Images

Separate object that wants dikartunkan of background images. Erase the parts that do not want dikartunkan photo. Use the Pen tool for this purpose. If you do not already know how to use the Pen tool to select the object image, maybe you should check out this tutorial Melissa Clifton .

With the Pen tool, draw a path around the object (in this example is Rihanna), change the path they will be a selection (keys: ctrl + Enter), inverse selection TSB (keys: ctrl + shift + i), remove (key: del) , then remove the line selection (keys: ctrl + D).

Note: Actually you can also use the Eraser tool, Magic Eraser, Background Eraser or for this purpose (which it will be much faster), but the results will not look neat.

Step 3: Make a 'Outline' Object Image

The next step is to make the 'outline' the object of our images.

1.  Make a duplicate layer 'Layer 0' (drag and drop this layer to the 'create a new layer' ). 

Change the layer name to 'outline'.

2.  Menu: Image :: Adjustments :: Shadow / Highlights ... Click the OK button. 

This step should not do. But often these steps will make the outline we will become sharper.

3.  sure the color in the color palette is black and white for the foreground to the background. (Type 'd' if the colors in the color palette instead of the default color TSB).

4.  Modify picture into an outline using the Photocopy filter.

menu: Filter :: Sketch :: Photocopy ... 

Set 'Details' to 3.

Set 'Darkness' to 8.

Click the 'OK'

Values ​​/ figures for 'Details' depends on the photos that are processed. Usually a value of '2 'gives the best results.

Experiment with setting the 'Details' this. The result we want is an outline drawing of Rihanna looks detailed but not to cause the outline looks 'dirty' full black spot.

5.  outline Change lines become solid black line.

menu: Image :: :: Threshold Adjustments ... 

Slide the slider to the right and left, as he visits preview, until the preview looks best performing (looks detailed outline but not full of dirty spots).

Click the OK button when you are satisfied with the results SDH.

Well, we've got the outline of what we expect.

Until at this stage, this is the result we get ..

Next we will add the shading for the image to be seen to have 'depth', and subsequently to the coloring stage.

Continue to the next section of this tutorial . 

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Tutorial Index:

• Part 1: Creating Outline
• Part 2: Coloring Board
• Part 3: Giving Shading
• Part 4: Staining

This is the second part of the tutorial change photographs into cartoons ( kartunisasi photo). (If you have not done so, please Consider first the  first part of this tutorial  ).

In the first part of this tutorial, we have made our outline cartoon pictures. So far our results are like this:

At the end of this second part, we'll get a result like this:

Let's get started ...

Step 4: Coloring Board

The next step is coloring the body.

1.  the Select / activate the layer 'outline'. Then press Ctrl -J to duplicate the layer (or do drag and drop on the layer button to 'create a new layer'). Change the layer's name to be 'white'.

2.  then we change the layer color to white.

Select the menu:  Image :: Adjustments :: Brightnness / Contrast ...

Slide the slider 'Brightness' to get stuck right (+100) and the slider 'Contrast' to get stuck left (-100).

Click OK.

We will get something like this:

Note:  If you are Unable to get a pure white color layer using the method above, try this alternate method:

Select the menu:  Image :: Adjustments :: Levels

Change the "Output Levels' to 255 and 255.

Click OK.

3.  Move the layer 'white' under layer 'outline'.

4.  the Change the layer's blending mode to 'outline' to 'Multiply'.

5.  Press the 'd' to restore the foreground and background colors to default (black foreground and white for background)

6.  Select / activate the layer 'white' in the Layers Palette.

7.  Click the 'Create new fill or adjustment layer'   at the bottom of the Layers Palette. On the popup menu that Appears, select 'Solid Color ...'. The next dialog box will Appear 'Color Picker'.

In the 'Color Picker', choose a creamy brown color. This will the make our colors as skin color. (I wear color # FAD594 to skin color. You do not have to be afraid to pick a color Because We can replace them at any time very Easily).

Click OK

8.  result like this.

9.  Choose tool 'Paint Bucket Tool'  . Click on the canvas to fill the layer mask with black.

10.  Rename the layer to 'skin'.

The result will be like this.

11.  the Make a clipping mask layer 'skin' layer 'white'. Press Ctrl + G in a state layer 'skin' is active / selected.

12.  On the 'Layers Palette', click on the layer 'outline' while pressing the Ctrl key. This stance is ordered rows of ants to march around Rihanna . Uh no, I mean, this style will display the mark selection (selection line) around the picture of Rihanna .

13.  Press the 'x' to swap the foreground color with the background color.

14.  Choose tool 'Paint Bucket'   , click on the canvas to fill the selection with white color.

15.  Press Ctrl + D to deselect the selection.

Finished coloring the body.

And here's the results we have so far:

1. 

Cartoon photos by cartoonized.net is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License .