• In either Expert or Quick mode, choose Filter→Sketch→Comic. • In the filter dialog box, choose from four presets. • From here you can adjust the default setting of the sliders for the various settings for the Color and Outline areas of the filtered image: • Soften: Creates rounder or rougher areas of colors.

May 7, 2015 - Easy Photoshop tutorial, how to make or give effect comics and cartoons on an image by combining features of existing filters in Photoshop, with plugins and adjustments layers to create effects such as cartoons and comics with easy and fast, requiring only a few minutes in the editing.

• Shades: Use a higher value to add more tonal levels. • Steepness: Use a higher value to make the colored areas more defined and contrasting. • Vibrance: Brightens the overall color of the image. • Thickness: Affects the thickness and blackness of the outlined strokes.

• Smoothness: Fine-tunes your edges and enhances the overall filter effect. • Adjust your view as needed by using the following controls.

• Zoom: Zoom in and out for your desired view. You can also use the 1:1 view (recommended) or Fit in Window view.

• Hand tool: Moves you around the image window when you are zoomed in. • Click OK to apply the filter and close the dialog box.

Photoshop plugins offer a quick and easy way to extend Adobe’s seminal image-editing tool with time-saving, feature-adding and workflow-easing goodness. Despite ever-growing competition, Photoshop continues to rule the roost as the best-in-class, go-to image manipulation and generation tool – but that doesn't mean it can't be improved with a great plugin. While it was once solely about pixel-based bitmap images, is now a capable vector editing tool, with 3D and video support built in. This collection of core features offers a powerful range of possibilities out the box, but occasionally it's worth adding a few extras to get the most out of your investment.

• As it’s been around for such a long time, Photoshop has support from thousands of plugins. It can be bewildering trying to sort through the array of options available, so we've selected the cream of the crop that you can download and use straight away. • Promoted: Filter Forge 8.

Backup tool offers over 12,000 effects and textures, covering almost every use case you can imagine. In version 8.0, tabs have been added.

You can now load any image or filter into separate tabs, and compare them or fine-tune their settings. Essentially you now have multiple Filter Forge copies under one hood. Need to move from one computer to another? The new backup tool compresses filters and settings into a single archive file that you can restore later on another computer, another version of Filter Forge or even another platform. RH Hover Color Picker. Actively being developed Ready to start creating your own fonts? It’s easier than you think with this handy Photoshop plugin.

Lets you turn any image or vector layer into colourful bitmap fonts using Photoshop CC 2015.3 and above. It’s worth noting that if you want to create vector-based fonts, the plugin can also be purchased for Illustrator.