I tried Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Irfan view and even Paint but they didn’t give me satisfactory results. I remembered that I have a great yet free image manipulation program on my computer which I don’t use much – Gimp for Windows (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) and started it up.
After playing around a bit I found a filter, which was already installed.
Just click on Filters > Artistic > Cartoon.
Just tweak the Mask Radius and Percent Black to manipulate the picture (here I used a picture of my daughter).
It’s not perfect but good enough for most purposes.
I don’t use Gimp that often because it crashes a lot (FYI, I have the buggy version 2.2.7. The new version 2.2.8 has already come out). For a free program, it sure has a lot of goodies and is ideal those who can’t afford to buy the more commercial programs and don’t want to buy pirated software.
Some of the best things in the World are available for free.
4 comments:
how cute rahil is... i feel like i've seen her grow up through your blog. hehehe:)
salaam!:)
Will Photoshop do it? :p
It's very fun to play with photoshop, too!
haha, thats intersting. i wonder how danish would look in cartoon image! haha... was sometimes since i last used photoshop... that's quite an idea, really! how's the haze in ur area?
Babypink: Thanks.
Narrowband, Justin, Acid: Bit tough on Photoshop as you have to play around but the results are probably better than using a filter on Gimp.
Kedah is Ok. However, I heard that some stupid/ irresponsible people started some fires on their paddy fields in Kepala batas. These people should be arrested and fined.
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