There is no way to have foreseen all possible scenarios. Also, smaller photos (in my experience, images of less than about 800 x 800 pixels) don’t end up looking great.Īs with all the macros I have submitted, please remember that I am one person with one computer, testing on a limited number of images. You should be aware that this macro may not look great on every single photo, mostly based on the overall complexity of the photo and the number of different colors in the original. I’ve attached two images below, showing the original photo, the Cartoon Effect settings used, and the cartoon result obtained. However, once you have made adjustments to the sliders for outline width, darkness, and grey values, this slider can decrease the overall prominence of the outlines. The default value is 100%, and setting this slider to 0% will effectively make the outlines disappear. This slider affects the overall opacity of the outlines. The effect of the slider is to make the grey outlines (those that are not entirely black) either more or less prominent. This slider defaults to 0.75, and corresponds to the Gamma slider in that same Levels adjustment. Values of 90% or lower are generally OK.ĥ) Adjust Grey Outlines (higher = darker) Values over 90% will start to have an adverse effect on the overall colors of the image, and setting the darkness to 100% will turn the entire image black. It corresponds to the Black slider in a Levels adjustment. This slider defaults to 60% and affects the “blackness” of the outlines created. Like the smoothing slider above, once you get above a certain value, the results will be atrocious. In general, keep the values fairly low (the default value is 1 px). This slider allows the user to increase the width of the outlines, as needed.

Outlines are placed at the edges of the posterized colors. Change this slider as needed, but the practical upper limit is far lower than the slider will allow!ģ) Outline Width (keep low, increase only as needed): At some point, though, increasing the edge smoothing will make the image unrecognizable. The default value is 4 px, but this can potentially be turned up quite high. Higher values will simplify (smooth) the edges more. This slider simplifies the edges of the colored areas formed by the Posterization. I’ve found this to be the best value for most images, but feel free to experiment. This is a Posterize adjustment, and the default value is 3. The choices you can make during the macro’s run are: The final effect is written to the image only when you click the “Apply” button. As you use these sliders, each change will run the macro again in order to invoke your change. When you click on the macro, you will be faced with a dialog box that allows you to make 6 different choices. The important ones are labelled, so you can edit the effect after the fact. If you look at the contents of the group, you’ll find a reasonably complicated multi-level collection of layers. Because of this, you can turn the group on and off to show and/or hide the effect entirely. When you invoke the macro, it will create a Group named “Cartoon Effect” and all of the edits reside within that group. Once the category resides in your Library, you can move the macro to a different category if you like – click and drag it to the destination you desire. It can also be imported into the iPad version (although I have not tested it on my iPad as of yet). afmacros file, which must be imported into the Library panel of Affinity Photo’s desktop version. Today, I’m posting a Cartoon Effect macro that I’m happy with, and that I think will satisfy some users. So, I tackled an effect that, until now, I’ve never accomplished in a way that I considered satisfactory.

I haven’t posted any “artistic filter” macros in a while, and I needed to break my dry spell.

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