Below is a collection of some of the best apps to help you turn photos into cartoons, sketches, and drawings. Students can use them to create beautiful works of art to use in their multimedia projects or in activities that involve comic strips, digital storytelling, presentations and many more.
1. Clip2Comic
Clip2Comic enables you to turn your photos into cartoons and sketches. Clip2Comic offers various comic styles to enhance your images. You can choose among different cartoon effects to add to pictures. Clip2Comic also works with videos allowing you to transform your videos into cartoons. Here is how Clip2Comic works: choose a photo or video from your camera roll, select the effects of your choice (e.g., comic, poster, sketch, or caricature), adjust the outlines of the picture, add color filters, and save your final product as a video or image.
Price: Free, offers in-app purchases .
2. My Sketch
My Sketch is another good app to help you turn photos into sketches and drawings. The app offers over 20 different types of sketches and supports both photos directly taken from camera or uploaded from photo album. You can adjust the brightness and contrast of your sketches and once done you can share your final result through email, or on social media websites. You can also save and print you sketches. The app retains the original quality of the photo.
Price: $1.99 .
3. ToonMe Cartoon
ToonMe Cartoon is an app that lets you easily turn photos to cartoons and drawings. The app uses a sophisticated AI-driven algorithm to produce cartoonized pictures with hand-draw quality. Simply upload your selfie and let the app does the rest. The app is free to download but offers various in-app purchases.
Price: Free, offers in-app purchases .
4. ToonCamera
ToonCamera lets you transform your photos and videos into cartoons. You can select among numerous cartoon effects, use unique line art styles, and apply real-time cartoon and art effects to your camera feed. You can also convert photos saved in your library to create beautiful works of art.
Price: $2.99.
5. Prisma
Prisma is a photo editor that offers powerful editing features to use to create amazing digital art. You can use Prisma features to add styles to your photos and turn them into beautiful cartoons or sketches. Some of the features provided by Prisma include vivid frames, background editing, the ability to replace background of photos with pre-made options, and many more.
6. Photo to Cartoon
Photo to Cartoon, as its name indicates, converts photos to cartoons. You can use photos from your album or snap a new photo using the camera of your mobile device. The app offers several types of cartoon styles, professional coloring pages , different filters and tools, a huge library of stickers and fonts, and several other interesting features to help you instantly turn photos to sketches and cartoons.
Price: Free, offers in-app purchases .
7. Pencil Photo Sketch
Pencil Photo Sketch allows you to create pencil sketches of your photos. The app offers different sketch styles including: pencil sketch, light sketch, cartoon art sketch, color drawing effect, crayon effect, and many more. Pencil Photo Sketch also offers over 10 editing options and 20 photo filters. Simply select a photo from your library or take one using your camera and click to apply a pencil sketch effect.
8. Sketch Me
Sketch Me is another good app that allows you to turn photos into sketches. Some of the features it offers include: seven different sketch effects, adjustable sketch parameters, split screen mode where only one half of the photo is shown in sketch, an easy to use interface, and many more.
Price: Free, offers in-app purchases .
