S_CartoonPaint Auto-generates a version of the source clip with a cartoon paint-brushed look. Finds the edges in the image and draws new outlines for those edges. Replaces the colors of the areas between the edges with paint brush shapes. 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.

Paint Parameters:

Frequency:   Default: 50,  Range: 1 or greater.
The density of brush strokes in the frame. Increase for smaller strokes.

Stroke Length:   Default: 2,  Range: any.
Determines the length of the brush strokes along the directions of edges in the source clip. If this is negative you can switch from VanGogh to HairyPaint styles and vice versa.

Stroke Align:   Default: 0.2,  Range: 0 or greater.
Increase to smooth out the directions of the strokes so nearby strokes are more parallel.

Smooth Colors:   Default: 0,  Range: 0 or greater.
Blurs the source by this amount before generating the brush strokes. Increase to cause the colors of nearby strokes to be more consistent.

Seed:   Default: 0,  Range: 0 or greater.
Used to initialize the random number generator. The actual seed value is not significant, but different seeds give different results and the same value should give a repeatable result.

Jitter Frames:   Integer,  Default: 0,  Range: 0 or greater.
If this is 0, the locations of the strokes will remain the same for every frame processed. If it is 1, the locations of the stokes are re-randomized for each frame. If it is 2, they are re-randomized every second frame, and so on.

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.

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.

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.

See Also:

Cartoon Posterize AutoPaint Sketch

Sapphire Plug-ins Introduction

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