We often seek to take the best photos. Photos with good quality, good lighting, perfect portraits, etc. Thanks to the impressive cameras of smartphones, we can take advantage of any situation to take a snapshot. And the result will be excellent. However, surely on occasion we have thought how to give those photos an original and totally different look. And then we are going to see various programs, and websites, to convert any photo into a cartoon , or cartoon.
For both Android and iOS we can find a large number of applications to convert photos into cartoons. At the end of the day, it is from where we take the photos, and we save having to transfer them to the PC. However, when we start looking for alternatives to do it from Windows, things get a bit complicated. There is a wide variety of alternatives to go from photo to drawing and turn them into cartoon. You just have to know how to search.
Next, we are going to talk about the best options we can find to carry out this task.
Programs to convert photos into cartoons for free
Paint.Net
Paint.Net is a completely free program created as a middle ground between Paint and Photoshop. This program has a large number of options and tools that allow us to edit and retouch our photos. But the most interesting thing that we will see will be the function of “drawing” our photographs.
To convert a photo into a drawing with this program, what we must do is open the “Effects” menu and there select the “Artistic” section. Now we can play the 3 tools that appear to us to achieve the desired drawing effect. We can also add noise or some kind of blur that can improve the final appearance of the image.
We can download this program from its main website .
XnSketch
This program is characterized above all by being very simple and fast to use. It is compatible with a large number of image formats and will allow us, in just a few clicks, to draw our photo in the program. It has different effects, and a series of adjustments (tone, saturation, brightness, contrast, etc.) that help us to give the final touch to the image.
We can download this program from here .
FotoSketcher
This program is designed so that applying or combining two or more effects to a photo is child’s play. We have several cartoon effects that allow us to draw our photo. We can also choose the combination of colors that we want the final image to have, the intensity, the edges, etc. It allows exporting the resulting photo in different formats.
We can download this software for free from the following link .
Sketch Me!
This program is completely free and exclusive for Windows 10 users. In it we will find everything we need to turn our photos into cartoons. Thus, we can leave the conversion in the hands of the automatic process, or use the tools we want to carry out this task. The most used effect in this program is to draw, but there are many other effects, such as comic, paste or neon, that we can use if they better adapt to what we are looking for.
This program is available for Windows 10 users directly from the Microsoft Store.
Paid programs to turn a photo into a cartoon
iToon
iToon is the easiest way to cartoonize our photos from Windows. The operation of this program is very simple: all we have to do is open the program, import the photo to which we want to give the effect and choose the effect we want to apply, nothing more. iToon will take care of the rest.
This program has more than 50 different effects, and each of them can be customized to achieve the desired finish with it. When we have adjusted the parameters, we apply the changes and that’s it.
We can download this program from its website .
Photoshop
Photoshop, Adobe‘s photo retouching software, allows us to turn our photos into cartoons. However, it does not have an option that allows us to do it as such, but we will have to do it by hand playing with effects, layers, blending options and masks. It is a difficult task for inexperienced users, but it is the only way to get something really original that does not rely on the presets of other programs.
We can download Photoshop for free from here .
Image Cartoonizer
Its name leaves no room for doubt. This program allows us to convert any photo that we have saved on the computer into drawings, helping us to get 100% original images. This program has more than 100 fully customizable effects that we can use to choose the finish of our photo that we like the most. In addition, we are seeing the results in real time, which helps us to fully adjust the desired effect.
We can download this program from here .
Adobe 2D Animation Software
Although it is not the main purpose of this software, Adobe’s 2D animation program can easily help us turn our professional photos into cartoons. Of course, the process is very complicated, since we will have to convert our photo into a vector image, and then carry out the corresponding tasks within the program to turn it into a cartoon. Once done, we can export the video format (MOV), in GIF or in HTML5, Canvas or WebGL.
We can download this program from the Adobe website .
Webs to go from photo to drawing for free
If we do not want to install any software on our computer, we can use the browser to carry out this same task.
PhotoCartoon
This is a totally free online service designed to process our photographs (it doesn’t matter whether they are portraits or otherwise) and to be able to convert them into cartoons, paintings, hand drawings, caricatures and much more. When the photo is processed we can download it without problems to save it on our computer.
We can access this website from here . In addition, we can also find software for Windows that will allow us to do it faster and easier.
Befunky
BeFunky is another similar website that will allow us to convert any photo into a cartoon with just one click. This website is made up of a complete online image editor, with a large number of effects that we can apply to our photos to give them the cartoon effect we want. It has a large number of different effects, and all of them are adjustable, so we can easily find the finish that best suits our tastes.
We can access this online service from the following link .
