The newest trend on social media platforms is cartoon profile avatars. Now, most of them have built-in tools to make your own cartoon-like avatars, but only through their own models. They’re limited with customizations, and that’s where the demand increases. This trendy way of showing your avatars is not stuck with social media platforms. They’re widely used on other websites, and that’s more than enough to pique your interest.
Meta-owned social media platforms have their own avatar makers that don’t require your photos. But the problem is that they don’t offer a lot of customizing options. And that’s where we come in. In this article, we’re here to tell you how you can create cartoon avatars for yourself using different tools and join the trend!
Making Cartoon Avatars Using An Android Device
Turning your photo into cartoon avatars is the easiest on an Android device. To do that, we’ll need a third-party app that you can easily install from the Google Play Store. Some Android phones have their own avatar-making features in their stock photo editing apps, but the vast amount of Android device brands make it not very convenient.
In our search for a great photo editing app to turn your photo into cartoon avatars, we’ve found some really good ones. One of them is “Cartoon Photo Editor,” which packs quite the punch. So, make your way to the Play Store and install the app first. And then:
- Open the app and allow it to access your photos from your storage.
- Select a photo you’d like to turn into a Cartoon avatar.
- Make your way to the option called “Cartoon+”. You’ll see different versions of cartoon avatars of the picture you chose.
- Once you’re done, tap on “Download” to save the photo you want. It’ll be saved to your gallery, and you can upload them anywhere you want.
And that’s the gist of it! You can quite easily turn your picture into a cartoon-like avatar and use it any way you want.
Making Cartoon Avatars Using iOS
iOS doesn’t have a built-in photo editor capable of turning your photos into cartoon versions of yourself. And that’s why, like Android devices, we’ll have to look the other way for Third-party options once again. But no need to worry; you won’t need to search through thousands of apps in the app store to find the perfect one. We did it for you, so you won’t have to. The app we’ll use here is called “ToonMe”. This simple app is not full of powerful editing features, but it will work like a charm for the thing we want. Start by:
- Open the App Store and install ToonMe on your iOS device.
- Tap on the ToonMe app icon to open it.
- Then tap on the lower left corner to start the process.
- Allow the permission to let the app access your photos.
- Select the photo you want to cartoon-ify and choose the versions you would like.
- After choosing the one you want, tap on the download icon, and it’ll save your Cartoon photo to your gallery.
Although there are basic cartoon features available on the free version of the ToonMe app, you can certainly take it up another notch by using the premium version. The Pro version costs about $4.99/Month, and it packs a lot of cartoon features for you to explore and use. If you’re not getting the type of feature ToonMe is offering, you can search for similar apps on the App Store and try something else.
Making Cartoon Avatars Using Your Computer
Compared to mobile devices, computers obviously have more capabilities in a lot of areas. And that’s also the case for the photo editing feature we’re looking for. Now, there are countless software, apps, and sites to turn your photo into a cartoon. And most of them may or may not include manual tweaking or other hassles. However, we are looking for something non-intuitive and free. For that, we’ve found a working and simple website to cartoon-ify your photos without any major hassles. And that site is PhotoCartoon.net. As expected, the site is non-intuitive and hassle-free. The best part of the site is that you don’t need to sign up to use the features. To start:
- Open your favorite Browser on your computer and head over to PhotoCartoon.net.
- Click on Choose File and upload the photo you want to use.
- After selecting the desired photo, click on “CARTOONIZE ONLINE.” The photo will then be uploaded, and you’ll be redirected to the page where you can choose various versions of your photo as cartoons.
- Choose the effect you want to use from the left side and click apply.
- Click on Download on the right side of your screen and save it.
There you have it. With this useful website, you can easily turn your photos into cartoons without any hassles. The downside of the site is that your photo will have a clearly visible watermark on it. To remove the watermark from your photo, you’ll need to pay a hefty price, and that’s about it.
Making Cartoon Avatars Using Other Means
Here, we’ve only shown you a limited amount of apps and sites to turn your photos into cartoon versions. However, there are countless other platforms you can use which might have everything you need. Just make a simple search on your app store for “Cartoon avatar making app,” and you’ll be presented with a lot of similar apps.
Bottom Line
Cartoon versions of your photos are always amazing to look at, and the trend is solid. We’ve only shown a few apps, and they still have a ton of different cartoon effects for you to try on. Alternatively, there are other third-party camera apps that have different artistic filters where you can find cartoon filters. They can show you a live view of how you’ll look as your cartoon versions, so you can try out different facial expressions. Even stock camera apps have cartoon filters on some phones. But even if your phone doesn’t have stock cartoon filters, simply follow our guide above. So, try out more apps and choose the ones you like.
