Hi here is another image of Lena to show a cartoon style image. Critique and comments invited, Thank You. I am reasonably pleased with this outcome

Is this a photo with filters or a drawing?

Either way it's nice. :>

Hi Moko. Lena or Lenna is a famous and accepted free image to be used as an image (This image is freely available on the net). I did NOT make the image. I used the image it to demonstrate a way of altering an image to make it into a cartoon like image. I used a few filters ( the normal filters with a standard installation of Gimp installation of 2.6.11. I had to use quite a bit of "hands on" to achieve this result. In other words ieach layer required some adjustments (total layers around 12)

That is very impressive wooble. I really like it, what ever you did with it.

Nice results

Nice one, wbool63!
That's an interesting example of Lena.

Very Nice wbool63

Molly, He4rty, Odin and Sallyanne, thank you for your comments.

@Mokonafan

Wikipedia has a nice article about the photo. Like the Utah Teapot, it's a standard test image.

really great result !
maybe you should have a look at what Roy Lichtenstein did, for some more inspiration

Thank You Esper, yes these cartoon style images are Lichtenstein inspired. Many Ps tuts on portrait cartoon effects mention his work. I plan to submit a few more images in different cartoon styles.

I keep getting drawn back to this one and the more I look the more I like it. Nice work!

I want to see yours Eris

If I'm in a good mood Molly!

looking very much forward to your results, wbool

hi wbool

i tried to make a halftone of the Lenna image in Inkscape
its not great as i dont really understand how to get better halftones, but i thought you may find this interesting

this is a bit better



EDIT:
halftone made in IS as layermask in Gimp with Lenna posterized

*runs off to make a fresh pot of coffee for Erisian as a bribe*

@Esper, Nice work, but why do the inkscape method. Perhaps Ps is easier? I played around with IS some time ago, but really never got familiar with it. I looked at the internet how IS makes halftone images. It looks quite complicated and then import the svg into Gimp to finish! Perhaps this duotone raster halftone type image (your first two images) can be done entirely in Gimp. Maybe Not. It does not seem so straight forward. Anyway nice results, Thanks for showing us !

and some toffee pavlova please