BeFunky Cartoonizer: Free Online Photo Effects
Turn Photos into Cartoons Free with BeFunky Online Cartoon Effects
Jun 3, 2009
There are many software solutions available for turning photos into cartoons. At the top end of the market, retailing at around $500, is Adobe Photoshop. A cheaper alternative for making cartoons from photos is IntoCartoon Pro, which costs $29.99. BeFunky offers an even more cost effective method for creating cartoons from pictures: the BeFunky cartoonizer is free, and doesn't require downloading or installation.
BeFunky is a website with an embedded art program that allows the user to upload a photo or other image and apply a variety of cartoon effects. The resultant images can be used to create forum avatars, digital art or animations from a series of cartoonized stills.
BeFunky Cartoon to Photo Effects
While BeFunky is known mainly for its cartoonizer, there are currently 9 artistic cartoon effects that can be applied to uploaded photographs:
- Cartoonizer: Turns uploaded photos into cartoons.
- Warholizer: Renders a photo in the artistic style of Andy Warhol.
- Charcola: Creates a charcoal sketch from the photo.
- Patriotic: Renders a red, white and blue stencil of the photo.
- Inkify: Makes an ink drawing from the photograph.
- Line Artopia: Creates a line drawing of the photo.
- Stenciler: Turns an uploaded picture into an digitally aged stencil.
- Sunburst: Applies a light source that appears to penetrate the uploaded image.
- Scribbler: Creates a sketch from the uploaded picture.
Any number of these photo effects can be applied to an uploaded image. For example, the user could apply the cartoonizer effect to create a cartoon from the photo, then apply the Warholizer to the cartoon, and finish by applying the inkify effect to see what the image would look like as a black and white ink drawing.
Cartoons from Pictures the Quick and Easy Way
BeFunky prompts the user to upload an image when a photo effect is clicked. Then, there is an editing option, where the uploaded photo can be cropped or rotated. Finally, the chosen photo effect is applied, and the image can be saved or shared in .jpg format. BeFunky even offers the option to have the created cartoon image made real by printing it on a t-shirt or a mug.
Each of the BeFunky photo effects has additional options to alter the default effect. For example, the cartoonizer allows the user to manipulate the color detail, sketch detail and the sketch brightness of the altered digital image.
Fun and Fast Free Photo to Cartoon Software
While lacking the artistic range and power of advanced (and more expensive) cartoonizer software, the BeFunky online cartoonizer offers a fast and easy to use solution for turning photos into cartoons without downloading and installing a program, and all for free. For the would-be artist who needs to convert an image into a basic cartoon likeness or into a line drawing in a hurry, BeFunky is ideal. For a more controlled conversion, a program such as Adobe Photoshop or IntoCartoon Pro is recommended.
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