Computer Tips From A Computer Guy

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 03:26 AM PST

Overtime, finding new and interesting pictures to post as profile icons on sites like Facebook becomes frustrating. Many people resort to posting cartoon characters or celebrity photos in place of photos of themselves, just to keep the pictures from becoming boring.

Instead of using a cartoon character as a profile picture, try turning your own picture into a cartoon. Using Cartoonize Net, within seconds you can be the next cartoon villain or superhero… or at least look like one.

Almost any photograph will work, but the best ones are of just one person with not too much background flotsam. To start using the service, first choose whether you will upload your photo from your computer or from the Web, like from PhotoBucket or Flickr.

Next, click choose file and open your picture.

Click the big Cartoonize Now button to begin the cartooning process.

Within a few seconds, your photo is converted into a cartoon. A preview appears on the screen, along with a link to download the picture. Click it and save the photo to your computer.

Our first test picture is a photo test was a comical Halloween snapshot. Cartoonize Net made it even more comical, as pictured above. Colors within the photo look color-block style, much like Link in Zelda: The Wind Waker. So, of course, we tried another photo.

The colors in the second Halloween photo were more vivid than the first. Cartoonize Net amplified the blue of the child's shirt and the red of the child's hat, making the photo look like a cartoon cow girl, ready to draw pistols at dawn.

However, in a normal shot with a good amount of background, our results were not as good. This shot of the same child was taken in front of a fountain outside a tourist attraction.

The effect is not bad, but it just is not as good as the headshots with less background.

Overall, Cartoonize Net is a fun way to create new profile pictures. It is a quick, creative tool, sure to bring amusement to our online friends. Our only complaint is the site's background image—it makes some of the text on the page very hard to read.

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