text: Q:
  
  Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality?
  
  Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality ? Like this:  
  
  I've watched this tutorial :  but the quality of the outcome is still far away from the one above.
  Is there a way to make a better one (as close as the example above) ?
  
  A:
  
  Tracing software may help getting started, but then there's still a lot of illustrating craft there. Photoshop and Gimp does not sound like the right tools for the trade, Illustrator and Inkscape are more like it. IIRC both should have embedded tracers.
  
  A:
  
  If you have Adobe Flash it has Trace tool in it's Menus (Modify -> Bitmap -> Trace Bitmap). Change it's parameters to get the best result. The good thing is despite Adobe Photoshop it will return a vector image. if you need a vector image I think it is the best way.
  
  