There are several cartoon effect scripts available for GIMP, nonetheless I felt compelled to write my own. The one that ships with GIMP ("Filters->Artistic->Cartoon") is rather dismal, and while there are some improved ones provided by third parties, I feel the one I've written offers some advantages and produces results that GIMPers might find useful.

The script is available from my GIMP Script-fu repository and, once installed to your scripts folder, will provide the command Toon-inator under the "Filters->Artistic" sub-menu (I'm not thrilled with the name either, but all the good ones were taken ).

The command does not require any parameters and your original layer is left unmodified. The script will add two layers above the original: one which adjusts the colors and another which provides some black outlines to the image. The idea behind this approach is that you are free to adjust the separate layers if running the script does not produce exactly what you want.

Here is a sample image.

Like the pinup like result you got with it Saul. Will check it out later. Thanks.

For what it's worth, the bulk of the filter effect is accomplished by duplicating the layer, setting the duplicate's layermode to Value, then running Retinex with a Scale of "16" and a Dynamic of "0.1". I am not entirely sure why this works, but it seems to handle all manner of colors (even B&W).

Just tried to download it and it popped up with an error with something like cache not available. I just copied the text file on that site and saving it that way, but wanted to let you know.

edit: well originally it said cache something, but now it just said file not available (just read the error message I got when I revisted; lol).

Would you mind trying the link now (it is the same link but without the https: connection):

http://chiselapp.com/user/saulgoode/rep ... acd7d151ab

Thanks Saul, downloaded and installed

That is the absolute perfect picture for your script, saulgoode. Very cool script. Thanks!

Argh!!! I ran the wrong script for the Santa. The one below is not the result of saulgood's tooninator script. - O

I got a Santa image and a background image from stock exchange. These are thumbnails of the actual images. After I ran the cartoon script, I cleaned out the white bg.
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Disclaimer: This image is NOT a result of using saulgoode's tooninator script.

Result of saulgoode's real tooninator script and I like it much better. Thanks saulgoode.

I had already copied the text and pasted into a .scm and it worked find, but I did try your link and it works now too. Played with it some and do like the result but that was before I had a concert to play in. Squeak I did but I got throught alright for the most part. lol

I like the resulting border when you add an alpha channel to the image, add some canvas and then run the script.





Links to original images:
http://blog.costumecraze.com/gallery2/d/1276-2/dc_1.jpg
http://www.lolcostume.com/pictures/Mermaid_Costume.jpg

I have this image of the fabulous Helen Mirren....so I made a matte around her, blurred and darkened the people behind her and then ran the toon-inator script. Merged the layers and ran that Rodilius filter (numbers way down). it added a bit of glow to her. she has plenty of internal glow anyway.

Nice script Saulgoode!
Took me a couple minutes to find it (was looking for Cartooninater) not toon-inator

Here is my go at it with a PSP file.



Original

best cartoon script I have run across! Wondering if there are any hints to prepare a pic to be cartooned that can tweak the results either to be more or less colorful, or have more or less black lines?

One of things I've noticed is that the amount of black is inversely proportional to the amount of saturation in the starting image. This can be effectively used by running the filter on a duplicate layer that has been desaturated to obtain more black shadows and lines, and then hiding/deleting the duplicated layer.

Or conversely, increase the saturation of the duplicate to reduce the amount of black.

You can use the Value Propagate filter set to "Make more opaque" to increase the thickness of the black edges a little (it can get ugly if done to excess).

As far as changing colors, most any color adjustments made to the original layer after running the filter will adjust things as expected. In the following image, I adjusted the hue and saturation a bit with the Hue-Sat filter and also used my Quantize filter to smooth out the colors even more.

cool script, love The little Mermaid O.

error when running the script in 2.7.4

It works it just gets a deprecation error.
You can open the error dialog Windows/Dockable dialogs
And keep the error window dialog open (i keep it tabbed)
This way all the errors will go into it instead of popping up all the time.

Awesome Script.
Is there any possible way this could be converted into a file to download?

It is available as a scm download. Here is a direct link to the script file.
http://chiselapp.com/user/saulgoode/rep ... acd7d151ab

Here's the results I got using this filter... I'm not that impressed, but the photo wasn't in the best of shape.