Cartoon Effect Tutorial

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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