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I was messing around with the toys that come with the kodak easyshare camera- its considered messing around because I am no expert. Any how, I inserted a picture of one of my females and subjected it to the cartoon effect. I thought the effect was interesting, maybe an image that could be transferred over to a t shirt, poster or something similar. comments please...
daveb

Boyle's Egg Company

is the cartooning the weird resolution or ? Chris

Its done by adjusting the sharpness. It does give the pic a pretty cool effect. If you have adobe go to "fix" photo then click on the sharpness several times until you get the desired effect.

Here a pic I just "fixed".

CG

pretty cool pic there, I may learn to fiddle around with it more.
db

Hello, been lurking about and learning while awaiting my first snake purchase.

I can post on this topic however, as it is my field of expertise.
The original "cartooning" image in this thread is not just sharpened. It looks like daveb's image editing application performed several operations to achieve the final image there. Most probably, some sort of posterization(throwing away colors and gradation to achieve a blocky result). Then a slight bluring, and finally an edge detection filter of some sort. Basically one that darkens the edges of colors to near black.

It's hard to tell exactly which algorithms were used to achieve the final image as different software packages do similar things differently. There is even a HUGE difference between Adobe Photoshop elements and the full blown Adobe Photoshop.

However, the three operations I mentioned earlier, or at least some variation on those operations, were performed to get the final image.

Your sharpening filter achieves a similar output, but gives the image an overall grainy appearance. Whereas daveb's output is soft blocks of color surrounded and/or overlayed by slightly grainy blacks.

Uhhh... sorry for the thread hijack. back to your regularly scheduled forum.

thanks for the thread hijack, it is nice to know a little about the technology i am playing around with.
db

Hey thanks for the info. You are right there is a huge difference between the Basic Adobe and the Photoshop. It's good to get some input from someone who knows a little more about it. I've just been playing with regular Adobe & have discovered how to do a few cool thing with it. Thanks again for the input

CG

Thats really cool Dave. I wish i could see how that effects yellow snakes like a classic south Florida king (brooksi) or a high red lavender brooksi.