Photo to Cartoon: Turn a Picture into a Cartoon
Turn a photo into a cartoon: flat areas of colour inside bold, smooth outlines, like a hand-coloured drawing. Portraits, pets and places, free, nothing uploaded.
How it works
Open a photo
A portrait, a pet, a building or a landscape: JPG, PNG, HEIC or WebP, at full resolution, in this tab.
Choose the drawing
Pencil sketch, line art or a colouring page. Move Detail and Line weight until it looks drawn, not traced.
Download the PNG
At the photo's own size, ready to print, colour in, paint over or use as a reference.
Photo to cartoon: flat colour and bold outlines
Photo to cartoon redraws a picture the way a cartoon is made: the texture of skin, fur and fabric smoothed into a few flat colours, a little brighter than life, with bold, continuous outlines round the shapes and features.
To cartoon yourself, open a portrait and keep Detail near the middle; lower it for fewer colours and only the main lines, raise it for more. Picture to cartoon works for pets and places too, and the outlines are the same continuous lines the tattoo stencil draws, not a scatter of edges.
Unlike apps that cartoonize photo uploads on a server, this runs in your browser: turn photo into cartoon privately, and download a PNG at print size. For lines only, try photo to line art or comic ink.
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Why it matters
Drawn from the photo itself
Every line follows an edge in your picture: no generated face, no invented detail, nothing that is not in the photo.
Nothing is uploaded
The drawing is made in your browser. Family photos stay on your device.
Line art for tracing and colouring
Line art and colouring pages come out as clean black lines on white, which print well and trace well onto paper, canvas or a light box.
Questions
How do I turn a photo into a cartoon?
Open it here and choose Cartoon. Detail sets how many colours and lines; Line weight how bold the outlines are. Download the PNG.
Is it an AI cartoon filter?
No model is involved: the colours are flattened and the outlines found by image processing in your browser, so it is fast, private and the same every time.
How do I turn a photo into a pencil sketch?
Open the photo, keep the style on Pencil sketch and download. Detail darkens the strokes; Line weight makes them broader and softer.
How do I turn a photo into line art?
Choose Line art. Lower the Detail to leave out skin, fabric and background texture, so only the main outlines are drawn.
Can I make a colouring page from a photo?
Yes: choose Colouring page for bold black outlines with the specks cleared away. For a whole printable book, use the KDP colouring page maker.
Is this AI?
No. It is image processing, run in your browser: the pencil sketch divides the photo by a blurred copy of itself, and line art finds the edges with a difference of two blurs. Nothing is generated, and nothing is uploaded.
Which photos work best?
A sharp photo with clear light and shade. A plain background gives the cleanest line art; a busy one draws busy.