Photos to cartoon tutorial uploaded!

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:40 am

i finally got around to doing it, the tutorial for making a picture into a cartoon for photoshop. it's at www.trp.ne1.net there's a link on the mainpage. and if you know how to do this easier or faster let me know. and i do know that you dont need to copy the layer twice you can just use an empty layer but thats no big deal. tell me what you think.

mark_essex_87 · Post by **mark_essex_87** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:10 am

Woo that's great, been looking at doing this to some photos but other tutorials never really provided the result I wanted, might give this a go!

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 6:30 pm

now i have to figure out how to do this with video!

film fanatic · Post by **film fanatic** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:23 pm

I suppose you could do it painstakingly with a filmstrip

Good job

santi · Post by **santi** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:23 am

What do ya think about this:

http://sfx.histo.pl/video/toon_test_small.avi

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:13 am

What do ya think about this:

http://sfx.histo.pl/video/toon_test_small.avi

the video doesnt work, it says unknown error.

I suppose you could do it painstakingly with a filmstrip Good job

I was thinking if its a static shot i could do the background and then add in the movement and characters later, so i wouldnt have to do the whole scene every frame, just the background and then just the characters. and if i wanted to pan the shot i could take a really wide shot and then zoom in and pan over and add the characters.

santi · Post by **santi** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:03 am

Try this one: http://sfx.histo.pl/video/toon_test.mpg

ssj3gohan · Post by **ssj3gohan** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:22 pm

cool.. butehm.. you're just standing there being cool. I dig the picture effect, it's just not cartoon, more like solarized or reduced to 128 colors.

are you the real thnikkaman? oh, so cool..

mark_essex_87 · Post by **mark_essex_87** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:51 pm

That was pretty kool yea, isn't this known as the walking life look?

I'm sure you could just basically use AE or another program to do what you did in Photoshop but apply it to the clip instead of a picture.

mark_essex_87 · Post by **mark_essex_87** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:55 pm

My mistake, it's known as 'waking life look' - well the idea of the cartoon anyway, I think - based on a programme called Waking Life?

http://www.aefreemart.com/tutorials/oth ... glife.html

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 6:32 pm

I'm sure you could just basically use AE or another program to do what you did in Photoshop but apply it to the clip instead of a picture

not really because the way i did it was paint everything on.
hey santi, what did you do to make that video? it wasnt what i was going to do but it still looks kinda cool

santi · Post by **santi** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:27 pm

justsomeguy wrote:hey santi, what did you do to make that video? it wasnt what i was going to do but it still looks kinda cool

There was some work with it. You probably discovered that I was filmed with green screen - I replaced green with solid black. Reduce framerete to 15 frames per second in Virtual dub and made clip with black and white matte (to use it later when composing everything together) and split the footage to bitmap sequence. I used Actions in Photoshop.
First: the "sketch"
- resize image to 200% - to keep the detailes
- duplicate layer and desaturate copy
- duplicate again and make it negative
- set blending mode to Color Dodge - image should turn white
- use Gaussian Blur until it will look like the outline
- merge this two layers
- correct with Level
this is the basic outline. I made about two or even three more in diffrent ways ang blend them (Multiply mode and opacity) together.
example:
- duplicate original layer
- desaturate
- increase contrast
- use filters like Graphic Pen, Poster edges etc.
You can also duplicate the outlin layer and modified it. You have to experiment a bit.

When the outline layer is ready set its mode to Multiply and take care about colors:
- select original layer
- increase contrast
- use Median filter to make it more smooth
- use Cutout filter to reduse number of colors

I saved all this steps in Action and transform whole sequence automaticly.

Whew... guys... it's almost a tutorial ;>

EDIT: Maybe you'd figure that out but forgot to tell that it has to be resized to original size.

Nomaden · Post by **Nomaden** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:10 pm

you can make an image look cartoonish in photoshop, simply by adding poster edges (experiment with the values) and then cutout, then you get that comic look cartoonish thingy

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:11 pm

you can make an image look cartoonish in photoshop, simply by adding poster edges (experiment with the values) and then cutout, then you get that comic look cartoonish thingy

yeah i tried that awhile ago but it just didnt give the look i wanted.
how i figured out how to do it this way was a long time ago i saw on tv this guy saying how they take black and white comics and put it in the computer nad add the color. i knew using find edges it would look close to those comics. so about a year later i tried doing it and viola, it works.

insert_coin · Post by **insert_coin** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:41 am

the princibles used in photoshop can be applied to after effects quite easily... just think about it guys.