Ever wondered how to make a caricature of real people? Well, here it is and it's very easy. I've done plenty of them for my friends and myself and we had a good laugh.

Author : Peter View or add comments : (1)
Date : 2005-12-29 22:48 Average members rating : 0
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Step 1

Open a portait image of the person you want to make a caricature of. Keep in mind to start working with good resolution image, so that you can print it if you decide to later on.

Step 2

Duplicate layer (go to menu: Layer/Duplicate Layer). This is only to keep the original to go back to if you're not satisfied with the result.

Step 3

Now this is the main part - we're going to distort the image. It is done manually so every image you make is unique! To start go to Filter/Liquify (see pic)

Step 4

Here using th Forward Warp Tool (top left) try to "push" the face around - make the head smaller or bigger, change person's eyebrows and ears. Change the brush size to access fine details.


Try not to overdo it, I know at first it's so much fun that you just can't help yourself... Underline person's features, like big lips - make them huge. Or rich eyebrows - turn them into "bush". Extend that little nose a bit... Or reduce the forehead...Your fantasy is the only limitation here.

There are other tools in the Liquify filter, try them out to go even further and be more nasty

I'm sure you will have a lot of fun doing this, so please share your caricatures with us, we wanna have fun too! Post one into Gallery!