Convert Images to Cartoons

[CharlieLovesTheInternet]

I want to remove humans in 500 pictures and want to convert the same  images to Cartoons as a batch.

What should I do?

There should be no watermark. and loss of quality.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

You cannot "convert" a photo into a cartoon in a batch.

[CharlieLovesTheInternet]

Okay

How do I convert each photo?

[Doug A Roberts]

What do you mean by 'convert'? What should these cartoons look like?

Usually you would use the photo as a reference and draw them.

[CharlieLovesTheInternet]

I want to convert this photo into a cartoon image. 

See attached.

[Simmer1 · Accepted solution]

Hey,

Photoshop would be your best bet for removing the humans before crossing over to Illustrator.

[John Mensinger]

There is no convert-to-cartoon easy button.

[Jacob Bugge · Accepted solution]

Charlie,

If you just remove the humans, there will be nothing where they were.

You may also consider doing everything in Photoshop, unless you wish/need to have the cartoon as vector artwork.

Your mentioning watermark may also raise the question of copyright.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Accepted solution]

Go to YouTube and search for "Photoshop cartoon effect". You will get lots of tutorials. 

Then search for "Photoshop batch actions". You will get lots of tutorials. 

[michelew83603738 · Accepted solution]

You first need to secure the right to use these images. Then as others have suggested, search for videos on YouTube to do this. There are not easy shortcuts per say for what you want to do, but learned ways to make things easier when you understand how to do them using the proper tools.

[JonathanArias]

1. use the word illustration if you want to sound more professional. If you want cartoon you will need to draw them. Same for illustrations. If you want to live trace it, you can, use the live trace feature. and see for yourself what happens. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_R1LwF-IU)
2. Right, there should be no watermark, are you going to remove it or get an image without a watermark?
3. Do you expect the program to remove the watermark? if its there is for a reason, and you may be trying to use the image without concent.
4. How can you loose quality on an image if you are changing it to a vector format. Do you know the difference between pixels and vector art?

In short. there is no cartoon button/filter/script that you can click/select to make a cartoon/illustration from an image. Live trace is as close as you can get without much effort. the other option is getting that pen tool out and draw over the image, and with 500 images, you will be clicking with the pen tool for a very very very long time.