Hello Everyone!
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make this Oil Painting Cartoon Effect in photoshop.
After following this tutorial, you will create your own Cartoon Effect PSD file.
And with that file, you will be able to to re-apply the same effect on any new image with a SINGLE CLICK!
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Step 1. Create the Cartoon Effect
Let's start by creating a New Document.
Set both Width & Height to 2000px, with 300 Resolution, and RGB color mode, then click Create.
Now go to File> Place Embedded to import your image.
Just select your image and click Place.
Resize your image to make your object's head fill the canvas like that, then press ENTER.
If you press CTRL+T, you'll find that your image is bigger than the document itself.
And I want to crop these extra areas to avoid any problems in step 2.
Just press CTRL+A to make a selection, and with your layer selected press CTRL+J to duplicate what you've selected.
This will make a duplicated layer with the same document dimension like that.
Now let's delete the old layer and the background layer.
Right-click your layer and convert it to a smart object.
Now Select your layer, and let's apply the "Liquify" filter from here.
To get this new liquify filter, you will need any Photoshop version above CC2015.5.
Now let's go to the "face-aware Liquify" section, to easily control the facial feature settings of each face.
In my case, photoshop will automatically detect 2 faces in my image! And If your image has one face you'll get a single face settings right here.
Now click on this little icon to link each 2 sliders together.
Then start increasing the eyes size to 100, height to 70, and width to 50.
Also increase the nose height and width to 100.
And for the mouth, increase both upper and lower lips to 100, and -100.
And finally for the face shape, you can change it to -50, -20, -100, and 15.
or just use any other values you want.
Repeat the same settings for the 2nd face if there are 2 in your image.
And Now let's see the before and after.
Click OK, and let's continue!
Now let's go to Filter> Stylize> and choose the "Oil Paint" filter.
If your oil paint filter is missing or greyed out, please check this video description.
As you can see, this filter will add an oil paint effect to your image like that.
Just change its values to 5, 3, 0.1, 0, and uncheck lighting. then click OK.
Now let's open the Filter gallery.
And Inside the "Artistic" folder, pick the "Poster Edges" filter.
Change it to 10, 0, and 6.
This will add a black outlines to your image edges like that.
Click OK to submit.
And again with you layer selected, go to Filter> Blur> and choose the "Surface Blur" filter.
Change its radius to 20, and Threshold to 10.
As you can see, this filter will make the skin smoother and remove any unnecessary details like that.
Now let's reapply the oil paint filter again.
Leave the values as before, and click OK.
Finally, Let's go to Filter> Sharpen> and choose the "Unsharp Mask" filter.
Change its values to 150, 8, and 8.
As you can see, this will increase the sharpness of the final effect and boost the details like that.
You can also add an extra "Smart Sharpen" filter from here. to increase the details and remove any remaining Noise.
Just change "Amount" to 150, "Radius" to 1.5, and "Reduce Noise" to 100, then click OK.
And here is the Final result!
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Now let's get back to our tutorial!
Step 2. Add Tone & Adjustment Layers.
In this step, we will try to give a depth to the final effect using some adjustment layers and a simple trick.
First, let's select our layer and Press CTRL+J to duplicate it.
And with the duplicated layer selected, go to Filter> Blur> and choose the "Gaussian Blur" filter.
Change its Radius to 20 Pixels, and click OK.
Now go and create an Invert layer from here.
Click on this little icon to clip mask it to the layer below.
Also create a Black and white layer to desaturate it.
Clip mask it too from here.
Now select the top layer, hold the SHIFT key, select the 3rd layer to select all 3 layers.
Press CTRL+G to group them, and rename the group -> "Tone - Opacity"
Change its blending mode to "Overlay".
And you'll only need to decrease the opacity of this group to get the perfect tone for your effect.
I usually use a value bellow 40%
Now let's add some adjustment layers.
Let's start with a "Selective Color" layer.
For the white channel, decrease the black all the way to -100%
This will increase the white color in the highlight areas like that.
Name it >> "White - Opacity"
Now let's add a Vibrance layer.
Change Vibrance to 15, and Saturation to 7.
And Finally, let's make a Levels layer.
Adjust its values to control your image Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights.
Now let's see before&after the adjustments.
That's GREAT!
Please note that whenever you update your image, you should change these 2 layer's opacities.
And also adjust the other 2 layers values if needed.
Now let's move on to the final step.
Step 3. Update the Effect Completely with a Single Click!
To update this image, you'll only need to double-click on this smart object's thumbnail to open it.
Once you're inside the smart object, go and import your new image from here.
Resize your object to make the head fill the canvas like that!
Press CTRL+S to update your effect.
Get back to your main document, and here is the result!
You should adjust Tone Opacity, Levels, and White opacity depending on your image like that.
And here is the before & After!
Before moving to the next example, Let's save this project as PSD file for any future use.
Let's have another example.
First, Open the smart object, and import your new image inside it.
Resize your object to make the head fill the canvas.
Press CTRL+S to update the effect.
Get back to your main document, and That's it for today!
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