ToonIt! Photo Cartoon Effects Plugin for Adobe Photoshop

Cel-Shaded Cartoon Styles.

Styles add a second layer of detail over the Cartoon Effect that you have chosen. They set the type of rotoscoping algorithm used by ToonIt! and gives you options to control the appearance and behavior of the cartoon.

The Styles that you will spend most of your time in are the ones that resemble a traditional hand-drawn cartoon. Their settings determine how many levels of shade a color will break down into, and how wide or detailed those color fields will be.

It's always fun seeing a cartoon become, well, more cartoonish, so let's explore the three main Styles.

Let's toon this man! Image from ArtBeats.com.

Flat Shaded Style.

Flat Shaded creates a pure cartoon look. This is the meat n' potatoes of the ToonIt! Photo plugin and the default Style setting. You will spend most of your time here. In Flat Shaded, we’re using Simplicity and Flatness to define the cartoon’s color regions.

Flat Shaded at its defaults.

Flat Shaded with Flatness at 3 and Simplicity at 5.

Flat Detailed Style.

Flat Detailed creates a more stylized rotoscoped cartoon. In Flat Detailed, we’re using Strength and Level controls to affect how many color fields the cartoon breaks down into.

Flat Detailed at its defaults.

Flat Detailed with Strength at 60 and Level at 100.

No Roto Style.

No Roto generates a minimalist cartoon-type smoothing. Its results are close to a low Flat Details setting. There are no controls in the No Roto group; it's a WYSIWYG style.

The purpose of No Roto is to let you access the main color controls -- the ones in the Blur/Color Effects tab -- without any stylization layered over.