Today guys, I'm gonna show you guys how to make a cartoon portrait using adobe photoshop CS6.n I'm gonna be using my nephew's photo for this tutorial. He was about 2 years old when this was taken. And now he is already 5. Time really flies too fast so you have to treasure every small moments like this photo.

This style is an easy way to make your photo more cartoony or anime-ish. I'm gonna show you guys below the step by step process on how to make this.



So let's start.


Open the picture on photoshop





CLICK CTRL + SHFT + N to add a new layer. And then fill it color white.





Change the opacity to 50- 25%.





Click CTRL + J to duplicate the layer but this one is going to be 100% opacity





Add another layer. This is going to be the layer for the outline.





Click the brush tool and make the size 4 px and 100% hardness





Then click the brush properties and set the minimum diameter to 50% on shape dynamics. This setting will give you a great shape of line which will make more cartoonish.





Click to pen tool afterwards.





Start to trace out the shape of the subject using a the pen tool.





Then right click. Choose "stroke path"





then choose brush as a tool and check the simulate path. Make sure you are doing this on the outline layer





Keep in mind that this wont have to be looking like the real picture since you are going to do a cartoon style of it. so you don't haveto follow all the lines.





If you hide the original picture it will look this.





For the coloring. First I will start with skin. Make another layer for this. Then by using a pen tool trace out the parts where the skin color is going to be. It doesn't have to be perfect since it is going to be covered by other layers as well.





Click the color adjustments then solid colors.





Choose the color that will fit the skin.





So next is the jacket. I choose a darker shade of blue. I highly suggest to do first the layers that will be covered by the other layers.





Then the table.





After that I added another layer of a ligher blue on the jacket.





so as you can see them darker shade of blue became the shadows.





Now, the hair.





Next, the hair shadows





The eyes









And then I just added a simple background.





And just added on a shadow for the finish





And there you have it





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