3 effects and filter applications to make cartoons of your face on Android

Skin apps are losing steam to Instagram and Snapchat, which already include a good collection of filters and tools to change the appearance of our faces. But there is always a market for other, more specific tools. We've taken a tour of the Google Play Store to find fun apps that turn your selfies into real cartoons. Content that you can obviously share on Instagram Stories later, for example.Here are three of the best we've seen

Cartoon Maker

It is possibly the most interesting cartoon app in the Google Play Store thanks to its editing possibilities. And it is that, with it, you can customize the portrait to limits that are not usually seen in other applications. With it you not only apply a good collection of filters that change reality for a canvas and different types of brush, but you also have the option of deforming everything thanks to different effects. In other words, everything you need to get a caricature of yourself.

Just download it from Google Play Store, where you can get it totally free, and start it to give camera, storage and microphone management permissions.Nothing strange since you need the mobile camera to take photos and videos. Then you only have to choose if you want to distort a photo already stored in the gallery, or take a snapshot at that moment. Or even record a video, since its effects are applied in real time.

Once you've got to work, you just have to choose the caricature style you want from the top bar. Lumia, Sketch, Cartoon, Paint… there's a nice variety that switches between brushes and supports. You can then play around with the sliders to adjust the brightness or warp. And, of course, there is the collection of warps. This is the grace of the Caricature Maker. And it is that the variety to change the proportions of your face are not few. Then you just have to choose if you want to take a photo or a video of the result. And ready.

MomentCam

It is a traditional application in the Google Play Store.And it is that its presence goes back several years. But they have not been in vain. It is of Japanese origin, and it is noticeable in the effects and compositions, but also in the humor and cartoon character that it gives off.

You just have to take a photo from the front and the application takes care of detecting your features and creating a comic book alter ego Something that you can touch up yourself by choosing the style of the hairstyle, accessories such as glasses and other similar details. Once you have your cartoon done, the good thing is that you can apply it to all kinds of situations and scenes.

Thus, you can go through the Valentine's collection to choose your face and that of a friend and star in a romantic scene in a humor cartoon. Or wander through sections like Popular to find everyday situations where you can fit your caricatured face and have a laugh.Of course you can share the results with whoever you want.

Sketch Camera

In this case we do not find another free application from the Google Play Store. But that attracts less attention due to its lesser variety of content, effects and deformations. In this case, the caricature is more of a portrait that simulates having been drawn Or a still life, if we prefer to take a photo of something other than a face. Even so, the results are pleasantly surprising due to the quality and effects.

Give the appropriate permissions to the app and then choose whether you want to distort an already taken photo, record a video or capture a selfie or normal photo at that moment. You will automatically see that the resulting image goes through a powerful filter that simulates having everything drawnYou can change the colors and the style by scrolling through the carousel of effects, each one more artistic and colorful.

You can also adjust some details such as the brightness or saturation of the effects with the icon of the sliders. Then all that remains is download or share the final result.