This simple tutorial will show you how to convert your photos to cartoon or sketch images in Ubuntu Linux using a simple tool XnSketch.
XnSketch is a very small tool that allows you to turn your photos into cartoon or sketch images. It works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Apple and Android devices.
Features:
- 18 different effects (black strokes, white strokes, pastel, pencil sketch, colored sketch, …)
- Edge strength, and opacity adjustement
- Contrast, brightness, saturation adjustement
- Save or share the result to Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Imgur, Thmblr, ImageShack, Yfrog, GlowFoto, TwitPic, and Email.
Install XnSketch
First download the package:
XnSketch for Windows 32-bit | Windows 64-bit
For Ubuntu users, decompress the package and copy and paste the result folder into /opt/ folder once downloaded. To do so, press Alt+F2 on your keyboard and type in gksudo nautilus to open file browser with root privilege.
Then drag and drop the extract folder from your ~/Downloads folder to /opt/:
Finally follow below steps to create a launcher for this tool:
1.) Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to install required package:
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel --no-install-recommends
2.) Run command to bring up Create Launcher dialog.
sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/ --create-new
In next window type following:
name = XnSketch
command = /opt/XnSketch/xnsketch.sh
select an icon from /opt/XnSketch/xnsketch.png
Once done, click Ok and you’ll see the XnSketch from the Unity Dash home.
