The Comic Filter

The Comic Filter creates a "comic book" style rendering of your image by flattening colors and outlining key areas with black. Below is an example.

Open an image and select the Comic filter

Here is what the image looks like after the filter has been applied using the default settings:

When selecting the Comic Filter, there are four options available within the function window that will affect how the image is rendered:

Radius Of Mask: Affects the degree of filter applied by moving the slider left or right. With the radius at 100% (far right), solid areas are more textured. With the radius at 5% (far left), the image is lightly outlined but the solid areas are not altered.

Percent Black: Affects how much of the image is rendered with black outline by moving the slider left or right. With the percentage at 100% (far right), more areas of the image are outlined in black. With the percentage at 5% (far left), the outlined is more confined to hard edges, such as the outside perimeter of the image.

Line Width: Affects the broadness of the line for areas that are outlined.

Posterize: Affects the amount of color transtion that is applied to solid colors by moving the slider left or right. With the percentage at 100% (far right), the solid areas are almost completey washed out. With the percentage at 25%, shaded areas are converted into solid colors.

  Note that it is not necessary to change the sliders. The default settings are applied when the filter is invoked, and are designed to acheive a good overall comic effect. The image example above was created by applying the default settings.

You can easily create your own comic and cartoon panels! Open your image and apply caricature effects. Then, apply the Comic Filter. Finally, add talk bubbles and text.