How do I get a nice clean cartoon look of this scan?

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July 17, 2026
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I scanned a stuffed animal from my childhood. It has this early 1970s pattern on a velvet-type fabric. Can anyone come up with a technique in Photoshop that will make it look like a clean cartoon without the velvet-like texture? I’ve tried blurring it but I can’t figure out how to get then crips black outlines over it.

I appreciate your help.

Mike McCollisterAuthor

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Thank you @Conrad_C. I keep forgetting about the Filter Gallery. That is close to what I want. I’ll play around with it some more.

I did try using google Gemini, I got something that looked inspired by my scan but nothing like it. I then tried ChatGPT and got pretty good results on the first try. I’ve tweaked it some and it got a little better then ran out of my free image generation for the day.

Conrad_C

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Good one. I’m so old-school that I don’t always remember to try generative AI, but it’s definitely become more and more effective at this kind of clean-up.

Conrad_C

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One of many possible approaches is to choose the command Filter > Filter Gallery and experiment with some of its effects. The examples in the pictures below only took a few seconds to try out. Note that you can stack multiple effects in Filter Gallery, in case a combination of them gets you the kind of cartoon look you want.

Cutout filter