Do-It-Yourself: Miniaturizing Photos | Fake Tilt Shift
by Joe
Not entirely sure what the actual name of this technique is but for now I’m calling it “miniaturizing.”
Take a photo and using some Photoshop tricks you can trick your eyes into thinking that they’re looking at a model of an actual full sized image.
Take these two images for example:
Before
After
Here is how it’s done:
Miniaturizing Photos from Joe Philipson on Vimeo.
We had a “Today’s Bacon” where someone miniaturized a football stadium.
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Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop CS3, DIY, fake tilt-shift, miniturization, Photoshop, tilt-shift-fake, Tutorial, video tutorials
April 10th, 2009 at 9:29 am
It’s usually called “fake tilt-shift” and there is of course a Flickr group for it: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/
April 10th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Awesome, thanks for the link Pete!
April 10th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
That Flickr group is awesome, looks what I found
http://vimeo.com/3156959
April 10th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Pete, right you are! Totally blanked my mind on this one… crazy.
Damian, Awesome find!
April 11th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Antoher one I did:
April 12th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Tilt-shift miniature faking.
April 12th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Wow that video is great
April 13th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Joe, you are missing the link to comment #5
April 13th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Damian, apparently you can’t embedd photos in the comments… :-/
April 21st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Hey nice tutorial,
One thing about your tilt shift scene….
The best tilt shift fakes occur when things that are in focus, everything is in focus… Just like a normal lens.
Look at your picture, the stop sign on the street at the back is in focus and so are the windows at the front, yet other distances lying in between these points are out of focus… clearly this doesn’t make sense.
While the technique you used in PS, is a decent way to apply the tilt shift effect it fails to account for distances that are the same.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
The best tilt shift fakes occur when things that are in focus, everything is in focus at the same distance *