Aperture Cartooning Effects Tutorials for ToonIt!.
ToonIt! Photo is an Aperture plugin that creates beautiful cartoons out of photographs and other still images. These tutorials will get you quickly started with the plugin. Most of the tutorial movies refer to use in Photoshop. Because the plugin opens its own proprietary intrface, the plugin works exactly the same in Apple's Aperture.
- Quickstart for ToonIt! Photo.
- NEW! Using Plugins in Aperture.
- Control the color fields.
- Control the outlines.
- Learn about Presets.
- Create Stained Glass, pt 1
- Create Stained Glass, pt 2
- Using Smart Filters
- Create a Graphic Novel, pt 1
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Want to watch from your deskop? Download all of the ToonIt! tutorials from here. There are 5 tutorials in this Zip file. (94 mb) |
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Quickstart for ToonIt! Photo.Get started quickly creating gorgeous cartoons in ToonIt. This tutorial goes over the basics of the plugin interface, like the Effects Palette and Style Controls. We explain how to make basic changes to the outlines and color fields that make up the cartoon.
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Using Plugins in Aperture.Most of our tutorials refer to using ToonIt! inside of Photoshop. But this tutorial is all about using ToonIt! inside of Apple's Aperture. There are a few workflow tips that you will want to know about, including how to NOT delete your original Master image. Our PDF Supplement is also helpful in learning these tricks.
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Control the color fields.Cartoon colors are what really sell the ToonIt effect. In this tutorial, we discuss how ToonIt translates your photograph or graphic image into distinct regions of color. We talk about Simplicity and Flantess in the Flat Shaded style, then Strength and Level in the Flat Detailed Style. We also explain No Roto, the Main Blur group and the Outline Blur group.
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Control the outlines.A cartoon is typically made of color shades and black outlines, but ToonIt's outlines look nice on their own as well. In this tutorial, we talk about how to push around the Outline controls. Settings covered include the Comic group, Soft group, Outlines Only, and Outline Blur.
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Learn about presets.The Preset Manager is a simple interface area that lets you work with pre-made groups of ToonIt! settings. We’ve shipped a whole bunch of presets to get you cartooning quickly. This video explains how to use them (it's pretty easy).
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Create Stained Glass, pt.1.Learn how to create a Stained Glass look. This is done with the Crackle Style, the Marker Outlines Effect, and some basic changes to their properties.
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Create Stained Glass, pt.2.The lines that make up your stained glass image may look a little soft and jagged. There's a simple technique called 'super sampling' that takes care of this issue, and we show you how in this tutorial.
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Using Smart Filters.This tutorial discusses the advantages of using Photoshop's Smart Filter functionality, and how to use Digital Anarchy plugins that way.
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Create Graphic Novel, pt.1.Learn how to create a graphic novel using Photoshop's built-in tools and plugins from Digital Anarchy. This is the first of a four-part series.
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