title: Convert image to sketch and then cartoonify?
body: <p>My aim is to let the user take a selfie from my app and then apply different image processing algorithms to convert it in a cartoon type image. I followed the algo <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9826273/photo-image-to-sketch-algorithm">written here</a>, and then also used the method written just below the chosen answer to convert black and white sketch to colored image that should look like cartoon. Every thing is ok except that after applying Gaussian Blur , the image becomes too hazy and unclear. Here is the image output:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3mvAs.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3mvAs.jpg" alt="image"></a></p>
  
  <p>Any advice how I can make it more clear? Like <a href="http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/portrait-to-sketch/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">shown in this link.</a> I know they used Photoshop , but I want to achieve it with Java and Android.</p>
  
  <p>PS: I found all the image processing methods <a href="https://xjaphx.wordpress.com/learning/tutorials/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">from here</a>. Plus the method <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21575358/convert-image-to-pencil-sketch-in-android">mentioned here</a> (the one below the chosen answer), what could be the ideal values in the arguments? </p>