Photoshop Tutorial and Action – Comic Book Art – Cartoon Color Halftone Photo Effect

By David B On May 31, 2019

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In this photoshop photo effects tutorial, i will show you how to create comic book art in photoshop using native filters.

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How to create comic book art effect in Photoshop

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Duplicate layer & name cartoon effect

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Adjust shadows/Highlights

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Apply Poster Edges, it’s basically going to make your edges black

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keep edge thickness:0, edge intensity:1 & posterization:6

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now apply Cutout filter

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use Levels: 8, Simplicity: 0 and Fidelity: 1

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Now adjust sharpening and luminance noise reduction in camera raw

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Now add reduce noise filter, it reduce appearance of noise without sacrificing image detail

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Keep strength: 10 with remove JPEG Artifact

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again apply poster edges

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keep edge thickness:0, edge intensity:0 & posterization:6

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Add sharpen

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Then head to Filter – Stylize – Diffuse.

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Change the Diffuse mode to Anisotropic, it gives image that cool brushed appearance.

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Now apply smart sharpen

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keep amount:300%, radius:2px, reduce noise: 1% & remove: gaussian blur

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Again open layer in camera raw and adjust sharpening & luminance noise reduction

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Again Reduce Noise

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Keep strength: 10, details:30, sharpen:20% without remove JPEG Artifact

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Apply Diffuse again

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We finished cartoon effect

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Change cartoon layer blending to multiply

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Duplicate cartoon layer and change name to color halftone

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apply color halftone with radius of 5px

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change blending to screen or lighten and reduce opacity to 50%

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now apply plastic wrap

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Keep Strength: 4, Detail: 10 & smoothness: 15

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Now duplicate cartoon layer again and move it to top

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apply plastic wrap to the layer

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Keep Strength: 3, Detail: 15 & smoothness: 15

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change layer blending to normal

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apply poster edges

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Add film grain

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Reduce layer opacity to 60%

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Select Surface Blur from Blur menu

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adjust the values to around 50px Radius and 15 Threshold

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finally we need to eliminate worst of artifacts

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Add facet, it eliminates artifacts & smoothes out image

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That’s it. We’re done.

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Download action from my website and simply click on play button.

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With just one-click you can add the effect to photos.

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I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial.

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