Changing a photo into a 'caricature'

Any way to do this?

[Reflection]

I am wondering if anyone can help me with this. What I want to do is take a jpg photo of someones face and modify it so that it looks like a black and white 'caricature'.

Is there anyway to do this using photo shop or paint shop pro etc.?

[benihana]

tricky. very tricky.

ok in photoshop you could try (off the top of my head)

1) using the liquify tool/filter to distort and exaggerate certain features.

2) use levels a bit to exagerrate the contrast a little.

3) use the smart blur filter with quality set to medium, and mode set to overlay edge - which gives a kind of line drawing effect, and then inverting and tweaking levels to get a black and white line drawing effect.

then you're on your own, try playing with hues, contrast, levels, colorfills, just anything that might help.

i really dont know if this will work, but it would be a my starting point if i were to tackle this.

Good luck :^}

ben

[percentages]

Reflection,

This is very, very difficult even for the artistically gifted, the results are never as good as a professional caricaturist can produce.

There are several companies/individuals on the web that will accept a scanned photo by email and return a professional .jpg for $20 to $40 a few days later.

Unless you are going into mass production I would send it to those folks, it is much less hassle :)

[limbo]

I agree - I would not attempt this from a photo.

If you live in a city I would think the cartoonists that caricature the tourists would be able to do you a load on the cheap. Probably just have to ask nicely and barter a good price for the artwork. And they will do them there and then right from the photo.

[Reflection]

Thanks all. I figured it would be difficult but I thought I would investigate the possibility anyway.