One of my favourite websites that I’m not directly involved with (although I helped them out a few times) is edupics
Edupics is basically searchable pictures to use in education.
Good on the green issue.
Fast. Easy and really nice people :)
Category: primary pictures
How to use Open source software to turn a portrait picture into something that resembles a cartoon (with additional alternatives) — (TECHNICAL)
Important notes: Not everyone thinks a cartoon looks the same, cartoons come in many different formats and I try to present some options on this page. This is a technical document and not for general purpose consumption.
ImageMagick++ and GMIC are required. GimpUI is not but Gimp is. Unix is probably required and is recommended.
What I have tried to do is take a normal picture of a primary school kid and treat it so that it is more appealing to the pupil to put on an object of their personal posession.
I have released my findings so if anyone else tries to do the same thing they can:
Simplfied instructions:
Install GIMP-Devel
Install Dependancies for ImageMagick++
Install ImageMagick++
Install Dependancies for GMIC (take note on ftw3)
Install GMIC (takes a long time)
Once GMIC is installed run the commands that I have placed above each example.
You may wish to process this with PHP or Python or so, that should be very simple to do 🙂
GMIC seems to have much lower overheads than ImageMagick++.
Original Image:
GMIC command:
gmic example.jpg -tetris 50 -o example3.jpg
GMIC command:
gmic example.jpg -edges 30 -o example5.jpg
GMIC command:
gmic example.jpg -drawing 30 -o example7.jpg
GMIC command:
gmic example.jpg -stencilbw 20 -o example6.jpg
Yes this looks very weird but if you apply the same effect to the picture of a boy they look like Harry Potter which is pretty cool if your a Primary School kid..
GMIC command:
gmic example.jpg -pencilbw 1 -o example8.jpg