Cartoony effect?

[philmetz]

Is there anyway to make a picture look cartoony? Like i have a picture of myself, how can i make it look more like a cartoon?
can i do it with photoshop 9 or do i need a plugin? if so where can i get it from?
Thanks

I got adobe photoshop 9.0

[Alk]

er... there is the filter>artistic column, where there is loads of ways to turn a picture into a drawing, but i'm not sure which on is to be cartoony.

but to make actual cartoon of urself, u would have to redraw it...

[philmetz]

hmmm so theres no plugin or the sorts then. ok

[Alk]

well u could always buy plug-ins, like wacom, spyder ect.... but i don't have any plug ins so far.. so i don't know which on to use...

[zora]

Is there anyway to make a picture look cartoony? Like i have a picture of myself, how can i make it look more like a cartoon?
can i do it with photoshop 9 or do i need a plugin? if so where can i get it from?
Thanks

I got adobe photoshop 9.0

you mean, like the cartoon-style pictures shown in http://cartoonized.net/cartoonme.php ?

basically, you can make the outline of the face using the filter menu in gimp or photoshop. the widely used filters are poster edges and photocopy. and then 'threshold' the result to give it a pure black and white color. ( a cartoon outline is usually drawn in pure black and white, not gray scale)

to reduce the 2D appearance, we should give it a shading. use a cutout filter on the original picture, and then threshold it also.

[zora]

oops, forgot one thing. sorry.

for the coloring job, you should read a tutorial by melissa clifton.
Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein (http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-popart2.html)