Turn Your Photo Into Art With One Click
Artistic filters that transform your photos into paintings, cartoons, sketches, pop art, and more.
Instantly Turn Your Photo Into a Cartoon
In 2007, BeFunky debuted with a single cartoon filter – the Cartoonizer™. Today, the Cartoonizer™ remains some of our most used photo editing tools! These artistic photo filters are constantly evolving – starting with Cartoonizer™ DLX, which offers enhanced AI results. Soon to follow was Cartoonizer™ GFX, which provides even more opportunities for realism and customization. All of our cartoon filters are unique, so you’re bound to find the perfect one for your project.
Try Our Cartoonizer™ Effects
Classic Collection
Our original filters take inspiration from notable cartoon aesthetics – think gritty comic books and colorful animation. Achieve a color-block cartoon style or emulate your favorite graphic novel style in seconds.
DLX
Cartoonizer™ DLX is a part of our Digital Art collection. With this effect, you can achieve exceptional quality with a bold, refined, and realistic cartoon look in just seconds.
GFX
Our GFX filters create vivid, eye-catching cartoons from any photo. These innovative effects allow you to fine tune how closely the cartoon effect resembles your original photo to give you a one-of-a-kind cartoon creation!
Graphic Novel
Turn your image into something straight out of a comic book! This filter produces bold linework and a muted color scheme – all while allowing you to customize the sharpness and color amount for the perfect graphic novel look.
Transform Your Photo Into a Painting
With BeFunky, turning photos into beautiful paintings is effortless. Channel your inner artist with our library of photo-to-painting filters, which offer an array of artistic styles. With these photo-to-art filters, you can transform portraits, landscapes, and more into striking oil paintings, watercolors, pop art, and more. With our photo-to-painting filters, there are endless possibilities, and it only takes a few seconds!
Get Started With Our Painting Filters
Oil Painting
Recreate some of the most influential and recognizable oil painting techniques – from classic realism to a modern impasto effect.
Watercolor
Using these artistic filters, you can effortlessly achieve perfect pigmentation and opacity while transforming your photos into watercolors.
Underpainting
Applying an Underpainting effect is the perfect way to explore simplified compositions and color palettes, smooth out any sharp details, and highlight contrasting hues.
Impressionist
These effects generate intense images that focus on expressions of light by using the appearance of short brushstrokes and vibrant colors.
Pointillism
Connect the dots with filters inspired by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. By using a spotting technique, your photo will be deconstructed into hundreds of small dots to create a striking image with a full range of tones and textures.
Pop Art
Channel your inner Warhol! Halftone and color block effects will help you recreate one of the most iconic and recognizable art styles.
Impasto GFX
Impasto GFX applies movement and depth to your images with this textured painting effect, inspired by the Renaissance period and influential artists like Vincent van Gogh.
Realist GFX
Apply Realist GFX to enrich portraits with a romantic Regency-era aesthetic. Blended brush strokes turn your photo into a soft and realistic oil painting.
Easily Turn Your Photo Into a Stylized Sketch
Have you ever wanted to turn your photo into a drawing but lacked the tools or patience required? Our photo-to-sketch effects make it possible in seconds. Explore a range of styles in the most recognizable and distinct mediums – like classic pen art, intricate cross-hatch sketches, detailed charcoal drawings, and more. It’s never been easier to create iconic sketches from any photo.
Transform Your Images With Our Sketch Effects
Sketcher
Achieve professional-level sketch results in just a few clicks. Whether you prefer our original Sketcher effects, the enhanced DLX, or the hyper realistic GFX edition, we’ve got sketch filters for every project.
Pen Art
Featuring that signature blue ink style and an overall monochrome aesthetic, these filters harness the power of AI to capture the loose and casual details of a ballpoint pen sketch.
Pastel
Our Pastel effects over high-value colors and matte textures guarantee eye-catching results in an iconic drawing style.
Charcoal
This otherwise messy and fragile medium has never been easier to wield. Our Charcoal GFX art filter transforms photos into textured, monochrome charcoal sketches with a single click.
Cross Hatch
Skip the hand cramp with our Cross Hatch DLX effect. This art filter emulates a line drawing style using linework to define shadows and highlights.
Ink Wash
Born from an ancient painting technique, our Ink Wash effects recreate this style with clean and well-defined brush strokes.
Turn Your Photo Into a Geometric Masterpiece
Our geometry-inspired photo to art effects show off the simplicity that digital art can offer. With artificial intelligence, you can deconstruct your images into angular shapes. These shapes incorporate bold colors and linework to make every detail easily distinguishable. It’s the perfect combination of modern and traditional art!
Try Our Geometric Digital Art Effects
Vector Art
Vector art utilizes mathematical formulas to produce a vector-based, geometric work of art. Our Vector Art GFX effect reproduces this process using AI, highlighting shapes and linework in your image.
Poly Art
Low polygon art uses solid color and simple, geometric shapes to give any organic photo a digital art aesthetic. By simplifying the complex details of your image into polygons, these effects reinterpret the material world with angular color blocking.
Mosaic
Turn any photo into a beautiful mosaic! Composed of hundreds of colorful fragments, our AI Mosaic effects make multimedia artwork a breeze.
Discover More About Our Photo to Art Effects
Get inspired with these tutorials on going from photo to art!
Turn Photos Into Watercolor Paintings
Turn any photo into a fluid, transparent watercolor painting with a single click.
Go From Photo to Pen Art Illustration
Capture that classic, blue-ink aesthetic of a pen art sketch.
Create Original Vector Art Graphics
Create original vector art with is super versatile effect – layered with striking colors and shapes.
Learn About All of Our Artsy Effect Categories
An overview of our entire Artsy collection! Find your favorite effects and learn the basics.
Make Images Pop With Pop Art Filters
Apply matte colors and create the illusion of depth with these inspired photo filters.
Cartoonize Your Pet Portraits
Take an already cute photo of your pet and make it even cuter with Cartoon effects.
