S_Cartoon Generates a version of the source clip with a cartoon look. Finds the edges in the image and draws new outlines for those edges. Smooths the colors of the areas between the edges, and optionally posterizes the colors into fewer color values. In the Sapphire Stylize effects submenu. Inputs: Source:  The clip to be processed.

Parameters:

Edge Width:   Default: 0.011,  Range: 0 or greater.
The width of the outlined edges. Increase for thicker outlines.

Edge Strength:   Default: 2,  Range: 0 or greater.
Scales the strength of the outlined edges by this amount. Increase for heavier edges.

Edge Threshold:   Default: 0.1,  Range: 0 or greater.
Subtracts this value from outline image. Increase to remove unwanted noise and minor edges.

Edge Color:   Default rgb: [0 0 0].
Outline the edges of the clip in this color.

Suppress Small Edges:   Default: 0.5,  Range: 0 or greater.
Increase this value to remove smaller edges while keeping the larger edges.

Edge Sharpen:   Default: 0,  Range: 0 or greater.
Amount to sharpen the outlines. Increase this value for sharper sides to the edges.

Smooth:   Default: 0.002,  Range: 0 or greater.
The amount to blur the colors in the non-edge regions.

Posterize Parameters:

Posterize Amount:   Default: 0,  Range: 0 to 1.
If positive, generates a posterized look by limiting the number of colors in the result. Increase this for fewer and larger regions of solid colors. Decrease for more colors and more steps between colors.

Posterize Smooth:   Default: 0.1,  Range: 0 to 1.
Amount to smooth the edges between color regions when posterizing. Increase this value to reduce aliasing between the colored areas. If set to 1, the areas will be completely smoothed together and no posterize effect will occur.

Posterize Phase:   Default: 0,  Range: any.
Amount to shift color boundaries when posterizing. Adjust this to fine-tune the location of the edges between the color regions. A phase of 1 is equivalent to 0.

Color Correct Parameters:

Saturation:   Default: 1,  Range: -2 to 8.
Scales the color saturation. Increase for more intense colors. Set to 0 for monochrome.

Scale Lights:   Default: 1,  Range: 0 or greater.
Scales the result by this value. Increase for a brighter result.

Tint Lights:   Default rgb: [1 1 1].
Scales the result by this color, thus tinting the lighter regions.

Tint Darks:   Default rgb: [0 0 0].
Adds this color to the darker regions of the source.

Offset Darks:   Default: 0,  Range: -8 to 2.
Adds this gray value to the darker regions of the source. This can be negative to increase contrast.

See Also:

CartoonPaint Posterize AutoPaint Sketch

Sapphire Plug-ins Introduction

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