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Turning Photograph Into Cartoon-Style Picture
Wondering how those guys on the internet turn photograph into a nice cartoon-style picture? Eager to make one yourself but don't know how to do it? Looking for an Adobe Photoshop tutorial on it but couldn't find any that satisfies your need? Search no more. You've already found it! Now here's how to turn your favorite photo into a cartoon photo. Be aware though, a photo cartoonization process (or cartooning, some people may say) is a patience-demanding job. But the result is very much satisfying. For this tutorial we will use a photo of Rihanna.
Here's the original photo 
And here's the final result of this tutorial 
First of all, download the original picture of Rihanna here. And start to work.
Step 1: Preparing the Canvas
On choosing the photo to be cartoonized, choose a clear and sharp
photo with the face of the person clearly seen. Blur, out of focus,
or under-exposed photo is a bad choice. The larger the resolution
of the photo is the better
Rename the new layer to 'original'. (To rename a layer, right-click on the name in the Layers Palette and select Layer Properties). We will keep the original photo (the 'original' layer) intact in
case something ''wrong' happened in our cartooning activity and need
the original picture.
5. Create a new layer. Rename it into 'background'. We will use it as background layer for our cartoon photo. Fill it with orange using Paint Bucket tool.
6. Move the layer to the bottom. Now our layers will look something like this:
Step 2: Removing Unwanted Areas of the Picture
Isolate the object. Clear out all unwanted parts of the photograph. Use Pen Tool for this purpose. If you've never used this tool previously, I suggest you to take a look at Melissa Clifton tutorial first. Take the Pen Tool, create a path around the object (Rihanna for this case), load path as selection (ctrl + Enter), inverse the selection (ctrl + shift + i), cut (del), then deselect the selection (ctrl + D). Note: You could use Eraser Tool, Magic Eraser Tool, or Background Eraser Tool which is simpler and faster for this purpose, but the result won't be as professional.
Step 3: Creating outline of the picture
Our next step is to create the outline of the picture.
Rename it to 'outline'.
2. Menu: Image :: Adjustments
:: Shadow/Highlight... This step is not a must. But most of the time it will improve the
clearness of the outline.
4. Turn the picture into outline using photocopy filter.
Set 'Detail' to 3. Set 'Darkness' to 8. Click 'OK'
Experiment with this setting. The goal is to make the outline as detail as possible so we can recognize the result as Rihanna, but not over-detailed that the outline becomes 'dirty'.
5. Turn the outline into solid black lines. menu: Image :: Adjustments :: Threshold...
Click OK when you're satisfied with the result.
That's it. Now we're done with the outline. Here's the result so far..
Next, we will apply some shading to give depth to the picture and then colorize it. Go on to the next part of the tutorial.
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Cartoon photo by cartoonized.net is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
button to duplicate it.
), and turn the visibility of this layer off.
menu:
Filter :: Sketch :: Photocopy...
The
value for 'Detail' depends on the picture. Most of the time a value
of '2' gives the best result. 
Turn
the slider right and left, experiment with it, until the preview displays
the best outline you can get (a compromise between 'detail enough'
and 'clean enough').
