Open CV (Open Source Computer Vision) is a very powerful library of programming functions mainly aimed at real-time computer vision. Created by Intel in 1999, it is written in C++ (we will be using the Python bindings).
In this brief code, we will see how one can change from:

Create a cartoon effect

Stylization aims to produce digital imagery with a wide variety of effects not focused on photorealism. Stylization can abstract regions of low contrast while preserving, or enhancing, high-contrast features.
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Import the library, load the image from the file and show it in a window. Use the ‘Esc’ key to close the window.
  1. import cv2
  2. color_image = cv2.imread("camel.jpg")
  3. cv2.imshow("camel",color_image)
  4. cv2.waitKey()
  5. cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Cartoon Effect And Pencil Sketch Using Open CV In Python
Now we use the stylization function to create the effect of smoothing out the colors and the image.
  1. cartoon_image = cv2.stylization(color_image, sigma_s=150, sigma_r=0.25)
  2. cv2.imshow('cartoon', cartoon_image)
  3. cv2.waitKey()
  4. cv2.destroyAllWindows()
After this loads the image again, you will see the following,
Cartoon Effect And Pencil Sketch Using Open CV In Python

Create a pencil sketch effect

This creates a pencil-like non-photorealistic line drawing. The parameters this function takes are source image, sigma_s - range between 0 to 200, sigma_r - range between 0 to 1 and shade_factor - range between 0 to 0.1
  1. cartoon_image1, cartoon_image2 = cv2.pencilSketch(color_image, sigma_s=60, sigma_r=0.5, shade_factor=0.02)
This function returns 2 images as below
  1. cv2.imshow(‘pencil’, cartoon_image1)
  2. cv2.waitKey()
  3. cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Cartoon Effect And Pencil Sketch Using Open CV In Python
  1. cv2.imshow('pencil', cartoon_image2)
  2. cv2.waitKey()
  3. cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Cartoon Effect And Pencil Sketch Using Open CV In Python
All this with so few lines of code. You can play with the parameters to see the effect of increasing and decreasing them.