The basic premise behind ToonPAINT is to take a photograph, either from your Photo Library on your iPhone (or iPod Touch), or from a new snapshot taken from within the ToonPAINT app and create a cartoon-like image of your picture. Once you have a photo loaded, ToonPAINT does it's magic.
After it's initial rendering of your photo, you can set about tweaking the details to your heart's content. There are two main settings that allow you to control what the final output of your photo will be, "basic" and "advanced" modes. Basic mode gives you 3 main options for You can control what ToonPAINT calls "coherence". In other words, how much the image is distorted from it's original look. The size of the value chosen determines how comprehensible the final product is. You can also control what they call edge length, which determines how all of the lines in the photo are connected to each other. I played around with the different combinations and came up with many different looks for the same photo.
Once you create the base look of the photo that you want, you can then add color to the picture using the color "splats". I found adding color to be somewhat tedious at times. It was difficult to precisely add color to small areas of the photographs, even when I had zoomed in as far as I could. This aside, I was still able to add color to the photos and the imprecision did not bother me as much once I had zoomed out to the original size.
Overall, this is a fun app to play with, and at $1.99 the power of this app makes this a steal.
ToonPAINT is an iPhone app by Toon-FX LCC.
