Cel Shade

Cel Shade posterizes color into graphic bands and adds cartoon-style outlines with adjustable color and smoothing.

How-to

Starting Workflow for Cel Shade Effect

  1. Step 1

    Set Levels to choose how many color bands remain.

  2. Step 2

    Use Edge Sens and Edge Width to dial the outline.

  3. Step 3

    Adjust Saturation, outline color, and Smoothing to finish the graphic style.

Reference

Cel Shade parameters

ParameterWhat it changes
MixBlend between the input and cel-shaded image
LevelsNumber of posterized color bands
Edge SensSensitivity for cartoon outline detection
Edge WidthThickness of outline strokes
SaturationSaturation boost for the cel-shaded result
RRed component of the outline color
GGreen component of the outline color
BBlue component of the outline color
SmoothingSoftness between posterized color bands