What program will turn a photo into a comic?

Tiffany · 2 Apr 2006

Preferably a software program that will do it in as few steps as possible & is easy to understand.

Thanks

Not Bman · 2 Apr 2006

You mean like a comic strip?

If I remember right, Photoshop can do it. I'll check that out and get back to you.

Aprox · 2 Apr 2006

Illustrator CS2 can do it quite well, its called live trace.

here is a quick example, it can do all sorts of different styles.

madmatt · 2 Apr 2006

Good to know, I might have to invest.

Techno Child · 2 Apr 2006

http://www.arcsoft.com/products/photoimpression/ you can "sketch" images in grayscale and adjust the intensity...also it's only like 50bucks

Before:

After at 50%:

Aprox · 2 Apr 2006

That looks really nice, I mean check out those rims!

Illustrator can also do color, you can pretty much customize how it looks. It takes your raster image and traces it into a vector shape (thousands of them). I will admit though that for 50 bucks you cant go wrong with that app.

Techno Child · 2 Apr 2006

tell you what else.... if you really are interested in photoimpression... go to walmart and buy a cheapo vga vivitar cam for like 20usd and it comes with most models

LeeJend · 2 Apr 2006

Gimp has a 'posterize' option under tools-color tool menu. You can make a cartoon with many different levels of detail.

Give it a try.

As far as I have delved into the two programs GIMP seems to be as powerful as photoshop.

Note: GIMP is freeware available for download under the GNU Liscence.

Techno Child · 2 Apr 2006

YESSSS!!!! (someone else likes gimp!) i was going to recomend gimp but in my previous gimp thread, nobody liked it

Aprox · 2 Apr 2006

Gimp is great if you dont have the money for PS or just dont like how PS works, but from a personal stand point I use PS everyday at work I cant stand to use the gimp. I find its layout and lack of more advanced features a real turn off. The way it does really subtle things really bothers me. However its been quite a while since I actually used Gimp.

Tiffany · 3 Apr 2006

Aprox said:
Gimp is great if you dont have the money for PS or just dont like how PS works, but from a personal stand point I use PS everyday at work I cant stand to use the gimp. I find its layout and lack of more advanced features a real turn off. The way it does really subtle things really bothers me. However its been quite a while since I actually used Gimp.

I can't figure out how to use Photo Shop or even Paint Shop Pro by Jasc.

I meant a comic like a cartoon or anime, with color like this:

Thank you all for replying.

American Zombie · 3 Apr 2006

In Paint Shop Pro you could try the following after opening your image.

Effects > Plugins > Virtual Painter

Dublex · 3 Apr 2006

Could be an interesting plugin that, an animeise colour plugin.

But I reccommend GIMP as well as a good free tool

LeeJend · 8 Apr 2006

Tiffany said:
I can't figure out how to use Photo Shop or even Paint Shop Pro by Jasc.

I meant a comic like a cartoon or anime, with color like this:

Thank you all for replying.

Yes, Gimp can do something like that.

Down lood it and try it, it's free and has a lot shorter learning curve than photoshop does.

Amusingly I use Photoshop at home and GIMP at work (the SOB's are too cheap to buy me Photoshop at work. I had to beg and plead just to get Adobe which I have to use on a daily basis.)

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