Hello everyone!
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make this simple Cartoon Logo in photoshop.
After following this tutorial, you will create your own Cartoon Effect PSD file...
And with that file, you will be able to recreate a cartoon logo out of any image within A FEW SECONDS!
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Step 1. Remove The Background.
First, Let's start by making a new document.
Set dimensions to any values above 2000px, with 300 Resolution, and RGB color mode. Then click Create.
From File> Place Embedded, go and import the image you want to work with.
Resize it as you want, then press ENTER.
Now pick the Quick Selection tool, and make a selection around your object like that.
Or if you have a newer version of photoshop, just click on the "Select Subject" button, to let photoshop automatically make the selection for you!
Adjust your selection like that, then click on the mask icon to hide the background like that.
Now go and delete the background layer, And right-click the mask and choose "Select and Mask".
Pick the "Refine Edge Tool" and start refining the hair like that
Make sure that the "output" is set to "Layer Mask", then click OK.
Now our image is fully isolated with the hair refined.
Just select your layer and right-click and choose Convert to Smart Object.
and with the quick selection tool, start selecting the head like that.
Adjust your selection as much as you can.
And with your layer selected, press CTRL+J to take the selected head to a new layer.
Select the full body layer, and press CTRL+T and resize it like that.
Also, select the head layer, and adjust the its size and rotation if you like.
Now select both layers by holding the CTRL key.
Then right-click and choose Convert to Smart Object.
and Now let's move on to the next step.
Step 2. Create the Cartoon Effect.
First, select your layer, then go to Filter> and choose the Liquify filter.
To get this updated version of Liquify filter, you will need any photoshop version above CC2015.5.
Please consider using an updated version of photoshop, or just ignore this step if you want!
Now go to the Face-Aware Liquify section, and there you will find that Photoshop has detected a face in our image!
and there is a bunch of settings to control its facial features.
Let's start with the eyes.
Just move the sliders to control the eyes' settings like that.
Also, increase the nose Height & Width to 100.
And for the mouth, increase both upper and lower lips sizes to 100, and -100.
And Finally for the Face Shape, you can set it to -50, -10, -100, and 15. Or just use any other values you want.
Let's see the before & After.
That's great! Just click OK to submit, and let's continue!
Now select your layer, and Press CTRL+J to duplicate it.
Hide the top layer, and change the name of the bottom layer to "Effect"
Also, change the name of the top layer to " Tone "
Select the "Effect" layer, and let's apply the Oil Paint filter from here.
If your Oil Paint filter is missing or doesn't work, please check this video description.
Now change its values to 5, 3, 0.1, and 0.
This will add an oil paint effect to your image like that!
Click OK to submit, and now let's apply the Surface Blur filter.
Just Change Radius to 20Px,and Threshold to 10.
This filter will wipe away the skin texture and make it smooth like that.
Now let's go to Filter> and choose the Filter Gallery.
Under the "Artistic" folder, choose the "Poster Edges" filter.
Let's reset the values to see what's going on!
First, Change Posterization to 2. and this should divide the skin tone into different levels like that.
Then change Edge Intensity to 1, And this should add a thick black lines to you image edges.
Finally, increase the edge thickness all the way to 10. and this will make the edges thicker like that.
Click OK. and lets decrease the opacity of this filter.
Just double-click on this little icon to open the filter's blending options.
Decrease Opacity to 35, then click OK.
As you can see, this will decrease the filter density to a very good level like that.
Again with your layer selected, go and re-apply the oil paint filter.
Leave all values as previous, and just click OK.
Finally, let's apply the Unsharp Mask filter from here.
Change it to 150, 6, and 6
This will increase the overall sharpness and details like that.
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First, select the "Tone" layer, and unhide it.
Then go to Filter> Blur > and choose the Gaussian Blur filter.
Set Radius to 5Px, and click OK.
And with your layer selected, go and create an Invert layer.
Clip mask it from this little icon.
Also, Create a Black&White layer to and clip mask it.
Now select the top layer, hold the SHIFT key, and select the "Tone" layer to select all 3 layers.
Press CTRL+G to group them
Then name the Group (Tone - Opacity), and finally change its blending mode to Overlay.
This will add an HDR tone to your final effect, and you can control it by changing the group opacity from here...
I usually keep it in between 10 to 40%.
Now let's move on to the next step.
Step 3. Make the cartoon logo.
First select the Ellipse Tool from here.
And from the Options Panel, Make sure that you're drawing a Shape, with any Color Fill, and 0 Stroke.
Then hold the SHFIT key and start drawing a Circle like that.
Select the Circle layer and drag it below the "Effect" layer.
Double-click on the circle layer to open its layer style, Then go and add a 100Px white border from here, then click OK.
Now Select the top 2 layers by holding the CTRL key. Then press CTRL+G to group them.
Finally, hold the CTRL key, then click on the circle layer's thumbnail to make a selection around it.
Select the group, and make a mask from your selection like that.
Now select the mask itself, then go and pick the brush tool.
Change the foreground color to white.
Then start painting over the mask to unhide the top parts like that.
That's it! Now let's move on to the final step.
Update the Effect with a Click!
First, open the image you want to work with.
Repeat what was in the step 1, to remove the background and enlarge the head.
Then Open the "Effect" layer smart object, by double-clicking on its thumbnail like that.
Drag your new isolated image and drop inside the smart object like that.
Press CTRL+T to resize & reposition it.
Hide the other image, then press CTRL+S to update your effect.
Get back to you main document.
And here is the updated result!
Please note that, you can save this project as a PSD file for any future use from here.
That's it for today!
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