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Photoshop tip: turning your sims into drawings

Choose a proper image. You need a good (3+ different light sources) lighting for filter to work better. Make sure there are no black spots on your sim or they're covering a very little spaces. If you render in Cycles, don't forget to enable denoise option.

Open Photoshop, go to Filters --> Artistic --> Cutout

3. We have pretty decent result already but don't be afraid to play with available settings. Press Ok.

4. Let's make a copy of our image using CTRL + J shortcut.

5. While this new layer selected, clean Cutout filter and follow the same path: Filters --> Artistic but this time it will be Poster Edges

6. We'll use it to restore the details that were lost after using Cutout. We won't need them all, just enough to make our sim more cartoonish.

7. Grab a basic hard round brush, reduce the size and check the opacity and flow to be 100%. I also recommend to play with layer filling, in my case it set to 65%.

8. Invert the mask (default is white - 100% layer visibility, CTRL + I to make it black with 0% layer visibility)

9. Now draw the missing details with white color on the black mask. It can be anything you think should be preserved.

10. You can add as many similar adjustment layers as you want, use it wisely!