Turn yourself into a cartoon

For this assignment, I will turn yourself into a cartoon and inspire your self with a note, quote or poem to yourself.

Me in cartoon:

For the font in the image, I follow one of the instructions in the video, which duplica the text three times, and for each one, go to the layer styles -- advance blending, uncheck one of the RGB for each, so first one uncheck G and B except R, second one uncheck R and B except G, and third one uncheck R and G except B, and then just use Ctrl + the arrow keys to move the duplicate text and end up with the text below.

Link of the video:

https://youtu.be/Lo6RxFD5cds

Me before:

The steps for my cartoon image:

1. Go to Image - Image Size, set resolution to 150, 1000 pixels for both height and width.

2. Select the image from the background, then create a layer mask of the selection.

3. Make a new layer below the image by Ctrl-clicking New Layer Icon, then use Ctrl + Backspace to set it white. If you have it already then ignore this step.

4. Make both the bottom layer and the image layer active by using shift-click, then convert into the smart object.

5. Then make a copy of the smart object and name it Line Art and name the bottom layer Color.

6. Active the LineArt layer and go to Filter - Filter Gallery

7. Open the Artistic folder and click Poster Edges

8. Set edge thickness 0, Edge intensity 5 and Posterization 6.

9. Go to Image - Adjustment - Threshold, then set threshold level to 80

10. Go to Filter - Stylize - Oil Paint, set stylization 5, Cleanliness 3, Scale 0.1, and bristle detail 0.

11. Uncheck lighting

12. Click Adjustment Layer Icon - Levels and since level layer was created, click the clipping mask to let it affect only the layer below it

13. Set the input highlight 160 and input shadow 100

14. Change the blend mode of Line Art layer to Multiply

15. Active the Color Layer and go to Filter - Blur - Surface Blur, set the radius 20, threshold 10

16. Go back to Filter - Stylize - Oil Paint, keep the same setting as before and click OK.

17. Filter - Filter Gallery - select Cutout in the Artistic Folder, make the number of levels 4, Edge Simplicity 4 and edge fidelity 2.

18. Create the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer above the Color Layer, and click the clipping mask to let it only affect the Color Layer. Increase the saturation to 40.

19. Create Levels, and clip it only to affect the Color Layer, set the shadow output level 40.

20. Make a new layer below the Line Art and name it Eyes.

21. Click the Pencil tool, set foreground color into white and background color into black.

22. Change the hardness of pencil and Opacity both 100%, and start brushing the areas of the eyes that you want to be white. You can change the foreground color into grey and make some realistis into the eyes. And you can change the foreground color to the color you want then paint it into the eyes.

23. Double click the Line Art Layer to open the source image.

24. Use the move tool to move the image from the source back to the project itself by just dragging it to the tab of the project document. Without releasing the mouse, press and hold the shift key, then move the mouse and drag the image to fit with the image on the project, because the shift key can make it centered on your previous image.

25. Control Click the layer mask of that new image from the source page to make a selection of the shape of the image, then you can delete that entire image from the source into trash.

26. Go to Select - Modify - Contract, set Contract By 2 pixels and click OK.

27. I use the gradient tool to color the background of my cartoon. And Duplicate the Color Layer and set its blend mode into Light Color.