Making pictures look like cartoons or drawings

Any very simple programs that make pictures look like cartoons or drawings?

I think Graphic Converter has filters for that....

hmm not seeing it

Guitarist said:

hmm not seeing it

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Since you have a PowerBook, you need to install it, it comes with the pro Macs.

You can do this by installing bundled apps from disc 1 of your restore DVDs.

Graphic Converter can be installed from there.

Not sure if it does the effect I am thinking of but what you may want is something to do edge detection with a posterise filter - that usually works well.

I should note the best way to cartoonise images is do to a lot of the work yourself :flower:

Vicky

Below is something I just tried with Photoshop's posterise and Accented Edges filter - anything that can offer those kind of filters should be able to get the rough result below.

Origiunal image:

http://www.iinet.com/~cfenison/images/ipod.jpg

Edited one:

iPod Cartoon

Vicky

Photoshop or Illustrator. In CS2 the Live Trace does pretty good conversions.

vicky-
your cartoon version of the pic was a broken link. can you fix it? i wanted 2 see how the effect worked.

Hiya,

I'll re upload it today; as it was stored on my sites folder on this Mac here, and I gave it a good clean out a few days ago! Will post a permanent URL in due course.

Vicky