Artoon

The online space is heavily populated with multimedia content, especially in the sense of pictures. Most of them undergo heavy editing, depending on what they want to depict. For instance, Artoon is a neat application with which to turn nearly any picture into a cartoon and enhance it with various other effects.

The application takes little time to install, and is good to go from the moment setup is over. As far as the interface is concerned, the application presents its set of features in a modern interface with clear functions and areas. Most of the space is your interactive canvas, with an effects selector at the bottom, as well as parameters in a side panel.

The name is pretty suggestive so by the end of the operation you can turn any picture into a cartoon. You can only process a file at a time, and file supports leaves much to be desired. As such, you’re only able to work with images under formats like JPG, PNG, and TIFF.

You get to choose from a pretty large collection of preset cartoon effects. These are found in categories like vectoon, cartoon, poptoon, and monotoon. Effect thumbnails help you better understand it before it’s applied. The original picture can be displayed at the press of a button for comparison.

However, preset effects aren’t the only way around the operation. You have control over all effect parameters, such as color smoothing, color vibrancy, outline color mode and strength, outline width, as well as outline detail. Custom profiles can be saved to be later applied with a single mouse click to other pictures. You can also try surprising effects by randomizing parameters.

In conclusion, Artoon might not be the professional image editing tool you’re looking for, but it can surely add a neat effect to a picture. Various preset profiles are at your disposal, and you can even create your own, save them, or randomize effect parameters.