User manual DIGITAL ANARCHY TOONIT PHOTO QUICKSTART GUIDE

[. . . ] In just a moment, a new window opens up showing all of the Toonit controls. You can see that a cartoon effect is applied immediately to our image. ToonIt has three main parts to its interface and they all work together to create this cartoon. The default look of Toonit is a limited number of color fields that create a flat celshaded look. [. . . ] This is great if you are treating similar photographs or want to run a batch process in Photoshop. If you want to start fresh, however, just click the Reset button down here to go back to ToonIts original settings. Now lets make some changes to our cartoon. I like what Toonit created by default, but with a little tweaking, I can make it even better. Were mostly going to play around with the Flat Shaded color settings in the Style Controls and the Outline Effects that are tucked into this tab here. (click on tab) The concept of Outlines is pretty easy to understand. If you click on the Use Comic option and uncheck it, you will see that the black lines disappear, leaving only flat fields of color. Not having outlines gives the cartoon a totally different look & feel. There are two other checkboxes in the Outlines area. If I turn on Use Soft, (click on Soft) you will get outlines that have some gray values mixed in. This produces a slightly softer look to the lines, as if there was a bit of charcoal shading added, and thus the name soft. If we go back to Use Comic, (click on Soft, then Comic) you can see that by comparison, Comic Outlines produces comic-book style hard edges with very little shading. You can think of Comic as looking like rough pencil or the inked edges of a graphic novel. You can also checkmark the Outlines Only option. (click on Only) This ignores the color fields and reduces the image to edge detection only. As you can see, the default colors are black for outlines and white for the solid background area, which makes our cartoon look more like a traditional line drawing or stylized pen and ink. We can make those outlines thicker by changing Comic Thickness. This sets the thickness of the major lines, mostly the ones that Toonit feels set the depth and structure of the cartoon. If I change Thickness to 6, you can see that the lines around the womans neck and hair get much thicker but the lines around her eyes and nose stay delicate. Lets change Thickness to 3, and then uncheck Outlines Only. Doing this immediately brings back those terrific color fields that weve had hidden for awhile. Now lets look at how we can change how our colors behave. [. . . ] Weve limited this parameter to 20 because cranking it any higher would give you some really high render times. Now lets click the Use Comic option to turn our black outlines back on. These lines give us some nice, sharp edges in the womens faces while still preserving the subtleties of their expressions. That is very important when cartooning the human face and something that Toonit excels at. [. . . ]