Cartooning

[dirty daddy]

Hello
is there a setting,option. on being able to make a photo say into a cartoon?..or like that movie Keanu Reeves did "scanner darkly"..
Thanks

[Bob Hahn]

No easy button for that. Here's a couple of links on the subject: Vector Art Goes Hollywood / Imitating A Scanner Darkly

Although techniques are shown with another program - you can do it in Xara.

-Bob.

[handrawn]

poster edges in photoshop may be the quickest 'one-touch' method for one sort of cartoon effect

[handrawn]

one stage further - this you can do in xara with the right filters [little ink pot and xero]

[handrawn]

and finally a shot of the all vector result - xar file is 1MB [ there are a lot of shapes in a xara 10 pass photographic trace] so not posted unless anyone is interested

I enjoyed anyway - like Bob says, no quick fix to get the 'scanner darkly' effect

[steve.ledger]

Here's a couple of links on the subject: Vector Art Goes Hollywood / Imitating A Scanner Darkly

Although techniques are shown with another program - you can do it in Xara.

-Bob.

Brilliant stuff that - looks deceptively dead easy.... I love the 'blue-blacks' result, far more arty than the filled result - but maybe that's becasue I'm lazy?

[handrawn]

lazy not going to get you far with that technique - I'll stick with the gillot pen, cos I'm lazy too

[steve.ledger]

Here's a rough'n'ready work-around to create a sort of similar (scanner darkly) result using two bitmap filters and combining the results.
Might be a useful technique for something?

REDFIELD http://www.redfieldplugins.com/filterSketchMaster.htm
DCE http://www.mediachance.com/plugins/index.html

[handrawn]

Yep

the sort of thing a xara photographic scan is for [and other 'artistic effects' of the playful kind] - but 'easier' in raster

[Albacore]

Sledger that really is quite a nice effect and I tried it with the little Ink Pot filters but because I used your original graphic as a comparison the effect was not as good as your. I think size matters.