ToonPAINT ($1.99)
Version 1.1.0
REVIEW – ” Turn your favorite photos into cartoonish works of art!”
I love any app that really lets me be creative and fun and this app has to be one of the best. ToonPAINT takes your own photos and turns them into sketches, which you then get to paint!
This app is actually very good at what it does and that truly impressed me, because unlike other apps that give you a blurred, sort of randomized product of your actual picture, the end result from ToonPaint was easily recognizable and looked great.
Even better was that I could adjust the sharpness of the edges which allowed me to make it really look the way I wanted. I could even change the amount of gray and black in the picture to ensure that even the shadowing looked right. Then just for a natural look I would tell it to soften it up and then the picture is ready for paint.
The app gives you four colors that you can change, so it’s a bit like having a paint pallet. To change a color simply double tap the color you want to change, you then have three options. You can either choose colors from a rainbow pallet, choose colors from the picture you took, or pick colors that you have already used. All of these are incredibly useful and great to make sure your picture turns out the way you want it.
You can change the size of your brush by clicking the brush icon and you can zoom in and out using the pinch motion. I would have liked a default icon though so that I could move around the picture without having to zoom in and out.
If you make a mistake simply click the bomb and you can undo whatever you need to. You can also just paint over your mistake as well.
Once you are done you can save it as just as sketch or as a sketch with paint, in regular resolution and high resolution which is a nice feature if you get a picture that you really like and want to show off.
To give you an idea of how well this works with just about any picture I used a picture of my Siamese cat and it still looked great. Pictures with people in them look just like the people as well.
All in all I was very impressed with this app and I think both kids and adults can have a lot of fun with it.
Stephanie S.
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Developer – Toon-FX
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I’m going to have to check this one out. I need more “art creation” apps. Great review.