Make a cartoon from your image

This is the first part of a little tutorial about how to cartoonize an image.
The same i followed to realize the image i posted.

I tried to simplify the tutorial because layers and mask tools that were used in they would be difficult explaining to you.



Well let's start.
It's better choose an image without human parts. Better if the colors of the image to carto0nize are pastel colors.

How to select a part of the image.
For making the selection there are many ways.
One of the easier (in photoshop) is to use the fast mask tool and to paint the area with a paint brush. Press the button showed (red colored) in this image



...select the black as foreground color, then start to paint the area to be selected. When all the area is colored of red means that it's done. Release the button fast mask

(showed in the upper image) and the area will be surrounded by a selection. If you are not satisfied press again the button fast mask and repaint.
Using white as color foreground you cut out the part from the selection.

For the part with uniform colors a fill tool would be perfect, for the not uniform it's better to use a tool that posterize (photoshop) the colors.



Open the image in your image editor and make a selection of the border of the umbrella and use the posterize tool.
Then go in Filter menu, then Artistic, Cutout( if are using Photoshop) and use this settings: number of level 8, 4 for Edge simplicity and 3 for Edge Fidelity.






With the selection active use from Modify menu the Trace option, set to 9px and black color.


Deselect the umbrella now and make a selection of the coat. Using a paint brush paint inside the selection. Use this color R:237 G:216 B:132.
With the selection active use from Modify menu the Trace option, set to 9px and black color.
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Deselect the coat now and make a selection of the jeans. Using a paint brush paint inside the selection. Use this color R:23 G:56 B:107.


Repeat the same 2 steps (paint brush and trace the border) with the boots but using the color R:220 G:149 B:181.


Final image.


That's all for now.
In the next article we'll the see how to go on.

This tutorial and the image of the girl with the umbrella are taken from an italian magazine called Photoshop Magazine (number 45, April 2010).

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