"Cartoonize" an image

[bearclawd]

First post, hopefully the right place to post.

Just wondering how one would go from this:



To this:



Is there a way to do it in PS? I wanted to do this for some of my favorite NBA/NFL players, but not make them into memes. :lol:

 

[Inkz]

I'm pretty sure this has been posted before...

Or am I having a Deja vu lol.

 

[Paul]

Yeah i think it as.
Pen tool and trace like the one above.

 

[Tom Mann]

Bearclaw, just looking at the original and the result, you know that they couldn't have used something like a completely automated plugin because how could such hypothetical software possibly know that your intent is to turn the very dark jacket completely white (except for the outline).

T

 

[bearclawd]

Yeah I KNOW that. Just wondered what steps to reach the image.

 

[Paul]

Have you got a wacom tablet by any chance?

 

[Tom Mann]

The pen and related tools to make paths are so much better in Illustrator than in Photoshop that, if at all possible, I would do it in Illustrator, or even sketch it on a piece of paper and scan it, than do it in PS, but YMMV.

Here's about 3 or 4 min in Illustrator...

 

[Paul]

Really wish i could get into illustrator, for me it is a perfect weapon of choice, just so confusing to grasp.

 

[Tom Mann]

Really wish i could get into illustrator, for me it is a perfect weapon of choice, just so confusing to grasp.

Don't feel bad -- It took me a huge amount of time to get up to speed with Illustrator, and even now, I regularly feel that it must have been designed by frustrated monks in the middle ages wearing hair shirts whose main job was to torture people for the inquisition. :mad2:

Even so, you can do an awful lot more in AI than in PS using just its most basic tools, so it's not as bad as it might seem.

T

 

[ExProsiveGaming]

Well you can create a new layer above the picture that you want to cartoonize.

Then simply draw the lines you want to be seen on the new layer.
Now if the lines are a bit edgy, try selecting all the lines with the magic select tool, go to refine edge under the select options, smoothen the selection (and feather it just a little bit if you want). Then simply select inverse and go over all lines with the eraser tool.

Never actually done this but I think that's the way to go.

Else, use illustrator (no clue what that is)

 

[ExProsiveGaming]

Either do the above or check this out

http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum...rn-your-image-into-beautifull-pencil-art.html

I just found it in our tutorial section. Simply follow those easy steps and erase whatever you don't need.

Excuse the doublepost.