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Simplifying Photo to Create Painted Effect
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The problem is: The bear is hand drawn. Not easy to replicate that from a photograph. There are ways to reduce colours but the average photo contains thousands of colours. In Gimp there is a posterize filter to reduce the number of colours, but add in shadows from a photo  and it becomes a mess. 

What you can try is the gimp_gmic_qt plugin. http://www.gmic.eu for a Windows installer. Get the pre-3.0 version.

Then the cartoon filter. That gets a reduced number of colours and keeps it recognisable. example:

   
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RE: Simplifying Photo to Create Painted Effect - by rich2005 - 10-05-2021, 02:03 PM

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