#TOPAZ SIMPLIFY SAMPLE HOW TO#

Have a great New Year week!….Digital Lady Syd Have some fun and see what results you can get. Lots of creativity here and these few techniques were all pretty easy to try out. Many others incorporate a half-tone look in them and many paint parts out to make the image less detailed. If you like this kind of look, these are just a few of the techniques that can be used to get that cartoon or comic effect. It has a bit more of a drawing effect to it. Chris uses the same technique of creating a duplicate layer smart object and then added these filters: Shadows/Highlights, Oil Paint, Poster Edges, Reduce Noise, Unsharp Mask, Smart Blur, and Cutout.

#TOPAZ SIMPLIFY SAMPLE HOW TO#

This technique was by Chris Spooner and he shows you how to do it in his video called How to Create an Illustrated Cartoon Effect from a Photo in Adobe Photoshop. This image looks very similar to the second image by Jesus Ramirez above – that is because they use some of the same filters but with different settings. I think it creates a rather unique cartoon effect and the colors look great without having to manipulate them much back in PS. Created the wonderful lines which I believe only Topaz Simplify can do. I used the older version and added some Simplify and Adjust slider changes, but the big result is from the Edges (which Topaz Studio 2 has) set to a strong Edge Strength of 3.63 using a Normal Color Line and a fatten Edge of 2.57. A lot of you may remember Topaz Simplify (which is still part of Topaz Studio 2 (for website info, check out my Tidbits Blog sidebar) but does not appear in quite the same format). Yep, here he is again – still sound asleep.

If you have a person’s face, this could be easily smoothed out using several different methods. I could have used a mixer on a New Layer set to a lower opacity to get a smoother coat and face, but the pattern looked rather nice on the overall lion. The video is called Smart Way to Quickly Make Comic Book Drawings from your Photos. Then on a duplicate of the image he applies the Poster Edges and Oil Paint filters again. Then the Filter Gallery -> Artistic -> Poster Edges, Threshold, and Oil Paint (you can see this in the image as a typical look for this filter) adjustments were added. He recently created a video which basically creates a Smart Object of a duplicate layer of the image. Obviously lots of touch up to get the effect, but overall it was a lot of fun to do.Īnother iteration of the same lion, this time using a technique by Jesus Rodriguez. This brush is really fun to use!) A Scatter brush on the lion fur and Kyle’s Inkbox Classic Cartoonist brush (also in the default wet media brushes from PS) for the black outline was used. (Used orange and tan as the colors, created a separate layer, painted in the dots, and set the layer to Hard Light at 73% opacity. The one above used Kyle’s Spatter Blot Tilt brush (in regular PS specialty default brush) with Color Dynamics turned on to get the different colors on the bark of the tree and the ground around the lion. The same basic image was used and up to a point for all four images. The image above is one I just did with mainly painting. And you can tell there are many different types of cartoon effects that can be achieved. I am not sure I would like the effect on all my images, but they are fun to create. I had found several videos on how to create a comic or cartoon effect over the past few years so I though I would share them. Sometimes it just takes time working with an image to get the effect wanted. It took some time to pull this little blog together.

Topaz simplify sample