Comic Book Effect
Turn a photo into comic book art: flat colours, halftone dots and black ink lines, with Classic, Pop art, Manga, Noir and Sketch styles.
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Turn a photo into comic book art: flat colours, halftone dots and black ink lines, with Classic, Pop art, Manga, Noir and Sketch styles.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
Drop a photo and it becomes a comic book panel: colours flattened to a few printed tones, halftone dots in the shadows, and black ink lines around every shape. Those are the three things a printed comic is made of, and each has its own control. Ink lines sets how many edges get inked and Line width how heavy the pen is; Halftone dots sets the strength of the Ben-Day dot screen; Colours is the number of tones per channel and Saturation pushes the colour toward the bright flat inks of a printed page. The result appears as you move a slider, at full quality, and downloads at the original size.
The Style menu holds five starting points. Classic is the modern comic book photo effect: five tones, medium ink, a light dot screen. Pop art is the Lichtenstein look, three loud colours and a heavy dot screen. Manga drops the colour for grey screentone and firm lines, the printed manga page. Noir is high-contrast black and white with thick ink, the crime-comic look. Sketch keeps almost only the lines, a pen drawing over a faint wash. Pick one, then move any slider and the style turns to Custom while keeping your changes; Reset returns to Classic. Together they cover the comic book effects people ask for, from a comic book effect generator for a profile picture to the impact look of a poster.
Download saves the comic at the photo's original size. JPG is the default for a photo; choose PNG when the picture has transparency or you want the black lines perfectly crisp, WebP for the smallest file. Copy puts the result on the clipboard and Share sends it to another app on a phone. The i button on the picture shows the size and the current settings.
The photo never leaves your device. The posterizing, the dot screen and the edge detection all run in your browser on the pixels in memory, and the file is encoded locally. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is kept.
Start with Classic. If the lines are too few, raise Ink lines; if they look thin, set Line width to 3. Portraits usually want fewer colours (3 or 4) and a touch more saturation than landscapes.
Halftone, also called Ben-Day dots: the way printed comics produced shades with only a few inks. Larger dots in darker areas, small dots or none in the highlights. The Halftone dots slider controls how strong the screen is; at 0 the picture is flat colour with lines only.
Yes. Manga gives grey tones with screentone dots and firm lines; Noir gives a harder three-tone black and white with heavy ink. Either can be tuned with the sliders.
Ink lines follow contrast. A soft edge, such as a cloud against a pale sky, has little contrast and needs a higher Ink lines setting to be drawn; a strong edge is inked at any setting. Raising Ink lines eventually inks texture too, which is the sketch look.
No. Everything runs in the browser, which is also why the effect works offline once the page has loaded.