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PANOSFX CARTOONS Photoshop actions - for PS CC, CS6, CS5, CS4 User Guide

CONTENTS 1. THE BASICS... 1 1.1. About the effects... 1 1.2. How the actions are organized... 1 1.3. Installing the actions in Photoshop... 2 2. BEFORE RUNNING THE ACTIONS... 2 2.1. Optimal photo sizes... 2 2.2. Photos with transparency... 3 3. THE ACTIONS... 4 3.1. The Cartoonizer actions... 4 3.2. The Dots action... 8 3.3. The Speech Balloons... 8 3.4. The Pop Art effects... 11 4. CARICATURES... 17 4.1. Turning a face into a caricature... 17

1. THE BASICS 1.1. About the effects The PanosFX Cartoons is a set of Photoshop actions, which you can use to turn your photos into beautiful cartoons. The effects also include various elegant speech balloons, as well as pop art backgrounds and collages. 1.2. How the actions are organized The actions are grouped in 4 groups, within the PFx CARTOONS set: The first group contains the 2 core actions, called the Cartoonizer : o o The first action is called Cartoonizer (for PS CC). This action runs in Photoshop CC2015 or newer. It creates softer cartoons with more artistic outlines. To run this action, you need to have a graphics card supported by Adobe. The second action is called Cartoonizer (for CC, CS6, CS5, CS4). This action runs in Photoshop CC (any version), and in PS CS6, CS5, and CS4. The cartoons created by this action retain more features of the original photo. The second group contains one action, called the Dots. It lets you modify the appearance of the halftone pattern imposed over the cartoon image. The third group contains 12 actions, which let you place 12 speech balloons to the cartoon. The actions in the fourth group let you spice up the cartoons with beautiful pop art effects. To use these actions, you will need to cartoonize a photo with a transparent background (e.g. a person or an animal extracted from the background). 1

1.3. Installing the actions in Photoshop If you don t know how to install and use Photoshop actions, please refer to this article on PanosFX.com: http://www.panosfx.com/installation-troubleshooting/installing-photoshop-actions 2. BEFORE RUNNING THE ACTIONS 2.1. Optimal photo sizes The actions have been optimized for photos whose size is in the range from 4 to 8 Megapixels. If your photo is much smaller (or larger), I recommend you resize it prior to running the Cartoonizer action. To check the size of your photo and resize it, use the Image > Image Size menu command, or press Ctrl-Alt-i (Mac: cmd-option-i). Example 1 (very big photos): You have selected the Image Size command; you read that your original photo is 6000 x 4000 pixels. Therefore It has 24 Megapixels (6000*4000), which is very big. In this case I recommend you reduce its size to e.g. 3000x2000 (6 Megapixels) and then run the Cartoonizer action: Example 2 (small photos): if your original photo is 1024 x 768 pixels, it has only 0.7 Megapixels. Don t worry; you can still turn it into a beautiful cartoon. Select the Image Size command and increase its size to 2400x1800 pixels. The Cartoonizer action will produce a very nice effect despite the interpolation. 2

2.2. Photos with transparency You can use the Cartoonizer actions on flat photos as well as on photos with transparency. You can therefore load a JPG photo, or a layered PSD photo with transparency, or a PNG-24 photo with transparency. The actions will preserve any transparent pixels. So, what s the big deal about using a photo with transparent background? If your photo has a transparent background, you can use the actions in the POP ART TOUCHES group to create various pop art inspired effects. For example, you can insert a sunburst type of background behind the cartoon. You can extract a person / animal / object from its background using the Quick Selection Tool : We will refer to the pop art effects later in this manual. 3

3. THE ACTIONS 3.1. The Cartoonizer actions The two Cartoonizer actions are the core actions in this set. Load a photo and run one of them. The Cartoonizer (for PS CC) runs in the 64-bit version of Photoshop CC-2015.1 or newer. The cartoons produced by this action have a softer appearance, with elegant outlines. Your system must be equipped with a graphics card supported by Adobe. If you have PS CC but your graphics card is old, or the driver is outdated, you will get an error, saying that the Oil Paint filter is not available. Press OK to ignore this warning or run the other Cartoonizer action. NOTE: It is strongly recommended that you download and install the latest driver for your graphics card. NVIDIA: http://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download INTEL: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/ The Cartoonizer (CC, CS6, CS5, CS4) runs in the 32 & 64-bit versions of PS CC, CS6, CS5, and CS4. The cartoons produced with this action retain more details of the original photo. Each action creates two different cartoons, so that you choose the one you prefer mostly. The first cartoon is richer in details, while the second has a flatter look. The photos below show the difference between the two actions: 4

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The layers: When the Cartoonizer action completes, a layers group called Cartoon layers is created. Click to expand its contents: it contains 5 layers that make up the overall effect. Out of these 5 layers, 4 are smart objects. You can double click on the smart filters and change the default settings to your preference. The fifth layer is the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. You can double click it to modify the overall saturation. At the bottom of the layers stack you can find two more layers: the Original Photo and the Background. Both layers are turned off. You can compare the original image vs. its cartoon version, by holding down the Alt key (Mac: option) and clicking on the small box to the left of the Original Photo layer. 7

3.2. The Dots action Having created the cartoon using the Cartoonizer action, you can now add / edit the cartoon halftone pattern, using the Dots action. The action will present you the Color Halftone filter window. By default the action uses the smaller possible value (4) for Max.Radius (the maximum radius of the dots). To create bigger dots, simply enter a higher value in the Max.Radius field. 3.3. The Speech Balloons The actions in the SPEECH BALLONS group let you add 12 different vector speech balloons, to the cartoon. You can run the same action as many times as you wish, to add multiple speech bubbles of the same type. 8

If necessary, drag a middle handle, to resize the balloon along the horizontal (or the vertical) axis: NOTE: All balloons are vector shapes. Therefore you can resize them freely, again and again. Use the corner handles to resize / rotate the balloon: You can also right click on the balloon, and select the two Flip commands to flip the balloon horizontally and/or vertically: 9

How to change the balloon color: A quick way is to apply a Color Overlay style to the balloon layer: Select Layer > Layer Style > Color Overlay from the menu (or click the fx button in the layer panel) and pick a color of your preference (make sure the Blend Mode is set to Multiply): A more elaborate way to change the colors of the balloon and its outline is to double click the balloon layer (it s a smart object). This will open a new document. Double click the Color layer thumbnail, to change the balloon color (default = white). Double click the Outline layer thumbnail, to change the color of the outline (default = black). When you finish, press ctrl-w (Mac: cmd-w) and click Yes to save your changes and update the cartoon. 10

3.4. The Pop Art effects To use the actions in the fourth group ( POP ART TOUCHES ) you need to have a photo where the photographic object has been extracted from its background: To extract an object from the background, pick the Quick Selection Tool: Carefully select the background. To subtract pixels from the selection, hold down the Alt key (Mac: option) while clicking. You can also use any of the other selection tools (such as the Magic Wand Tool) to create a more precise selection. Having selected the background, hold down the Alt key (Mac: option) and click the Add a mask icon, on the layers panel: This will mask out the background: TIP: To fine-tune the selection, hold down Shift and select the menu command Select > Select and Mask. This will open the Refine Mask window. Now run one of the two Cartoonizer actions. 11

The action completes and the photo is turned into a cartoon: The action preserved the transparent background pixels. It s time to use the 4 pop art actions. 12

PanosFX CARTOONS User guide The Collage (4 photos) action. The Collage (4 photos) action will turn the cartoon into a pop art collage, that shows 4 different versions of the photo, placed over colored tiles: You can easily change the colors of each one of the 4 tiles, by double clicking the respective color fill layer in the layers panel. 13

The Collage (9 photos) action. The Collage (9 photos) action will turn the cartoon into a pop art collage, with 9 different versions of the photo: You can easily change the colors of each one of the 9 tiles, by double clicking the respective color fill layer in the layers panel. 14

The Sunburst background action. This action places a sunburst graphic behind the cartoon: When the action completes, a layer group called Starburst background is created. It contains 2 layers: Color 1 and Color 2. Click on the layer thumbnails, to change the default colors to your preference: 15

The Halftone background action. This action places a halftone pattern graphic behind the cartoon: The action lets you select the two pattern colors (default: red & yellow) and define the maximum dot radius. When it completes, a layer group called Halftone background is created. It contains 2 layers: Color 1 and Color 2. Click on the layer thumbnails, to change the colors to your preference: 16

4. CARICATURES 4.1. Turning a face into a caricature Adobe introduced the face-aware Liquify tool in Photoshop CC 2015.5. You can use this amazing technology to turn one or more faces into caricatures, prior to using the Cartoons actions. You need to have a photo showing at least one human face, which is facing forwards. Select Filter > Liquify from the menu. Use the settings on the right, to modify the facial features. If Photoshop recognizes more than one faces in the photo, you can select the face that you want to change, from the dropdown list: Adjust the settings and press OK to apply. Repeat as many times as you wish, to create a funny face. Finally run the Cartoon action. 17

If you have any questions, please use the contact form at panosfx.com Panos Efstathiadis www.panosfx.com The photos used in this guide were kindly provided by Shutterstock. The Shutterstock IDs are as follows: 140378221.jpg 169057235.jpg 136789808.jpg 18