Have you ever wanted to add a cartoon effect to pictures in Photoshop? Well we figured out how to do it. We found the steps from a website. Here are the easy steps to making your picture look like a comic book page:
1. Open photo
2. Go to image – adjustments – levels
3. When on levels make the input level 60, 1.00, 220
4. Go to filter- artistic – film grain
· Make grain: 4, highlight area: 0, and the intensity: 10
· Click “okay”
5. Duplicate layer and name it “ half tone”
6. Go to filter – pixelate – color halftone
· Set max radius to 15 and leave the rest alone. ( you may need to change for your picture)
7. Go to layers window and set drop down box ( that says normal) to darken
8. Select the halftone layer, then click the “fx” button on the bottom of the layers window – stroke
· Make the size: 20 px, position: inside, then change the color ( to do that click the color square and then type next to the # “f5ecel”), click “okay”
9. Add new layer and name it “rectangle”
10. With the rectangle tool make a small orange rectangle box at the top
11. Go to the “fx” button and select stroke
· Make size 3 px
12. Draw a larger white rectangle in the bottom corner
· Make sure stroke is at 3px
13. Add new layer above the rectangular layer
· Name “border”
14. Select the rectangular marquee tool
· Select from the top left corner to the bottom right corner
15. Go to edit – stroke
· Set size to: 4 px, color: black, location: center
· Click “okay”
16. Deselect everything
17. Go to filter – blur – blur more
18. Go to filter – distort – ripple
· Make the amount: 20%, size: medium
19. Go to filter – sharpen – sharpen more
20. Select the text tool
· Type the date in the orange box (except for the first letter of the month)
· Make the color: black
· Size everything but first letter: 120, ( maybe different according to your picture)
· Font: Mv Boli
21. Make another text box and type the first letter of the month
· Add stroke with the “fx” button
· Change the color of stroke to red
· Change the size to: 170 ( could be different for your picture)
22. Write a caption in the white box ( optional: bold some words to add more effect)
23. Flatten image and save as a jpeg
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