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Tiltshift photography refers to the use of camera movements on small and
medium format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for
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selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene. Sometimes the term is
used when the shallow depth of field is simulated with digital postprocessing;
the name may derive from the tiltshift lens normally required when the effect is
produced optically. (Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiltshift_photography)) (/id/ControlArduino
Since I don't have the expensive tiltshift lens and I don't have enough time to
make my own lens for the miniature effect, I experimented on some stock WirelesslywithMATLAB/)
photos I have via Photoshop CS4 instead. It's quite easy and it brings you the
exact effect you want. Miniature effect has been a popular medium used in
commercials lately. But anyway, to get an idea, some cool tiltshift photography
can be seen here (http://www.designfloat.com/blog/2010/06/10/40incredibletilt (/id/Steampunk
shiftphotos/).
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Step 1: Choosing the Right Photo Tags:
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Not all photos can give the right miniature effect. When choosing photos
one must remember the following:
1) Choose a picture that was taken from a afar.
2) It is also advisable to choose an image not only that it was taken from afar but
rather on an elevated level like you're on 4th or 5th floor of a building taking city
streets down below. A good perspective is always a key point.
3) Most of the time, cars, buildings and trees are the best subjects although if
you want to take pictures of people, just make sure that there's an element in
the picture that would make them look like plastic toy models, for example a
building or at least a few cars, trees any structure.
For this tutorial I chose one of my favorite miniature effect subject, trains. Take
note that I chose a photo that was taken a floor higher than the subject.
Step 2: Getting Started
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Open up your chosen image via Photoshop. In my case, I used CS4.
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After opening the image to your Photoshop press on "Q" to enable Quick Mask
Mode.
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After pressing "Q" you may then press "G" to enable Gradient. Choose the
Reflected Gradient for the miniature effect.
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After enabling "Gradient," draw a vertical line on the picture. After drawing a
vertical line, a reddish color gradient should appear which will mark that those
part of the image will be the focus or the subject of your picture and not to be
blurred out.
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After determining the focus and subject of your picture, press on "Q" again to
exit Quick Mask Mode and go back to Standard Mode. Clicking on this will make
the marching ants selection lines appear where our "Lens Blur" should be
applied later on.
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After exiting the Quick Mode, go to Filter > Blur > Lens Blur.
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Adjust the radius until you reached the desired output and press on "OK." In my
case, I adjusted the radius until 40.
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Press CTRLD on the keyboard to remove the marching ants selection
boundary.
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Once done with the focus, you need to enhance the saturation of your image. To
achieve miniature effect, most of the time, saturation of the images are adjusted
to 40 above the normal saturation since miniature models usually are brightly
painted. So in order to achieve the desired output, you need to adjust either the
vibrance or the saturation of the image. Just go to Image > Adjustments >
Hue/Saturation.
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You also may want to adjust the contrast. To do this just go to Image >
Adjustments > Curves. Experiment on the curves until you reached the desired
output.
Once done with the following just save your image and find your next target
image.
Step 12: Sample Output
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I wanted to try something with bridges but I don't have photos of bridges taken
from above so I borrowed this to try and see how it would look like. Original
images of these can be seen here (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/51417751).
Anyway, some cool tiltshift photography here
(http://www.designfloat.com/blog/2010/06/10/40incredibletiltshiftphotos/.).
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just what i was looking for. much appreciated. thanks
Beautiful! Very easy and rehandlable instructions
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super cool!!! would love to feature this on my site
Here are some examples that I've done recently.
Hey presto. 2 years ago
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ayos to...salamat
This is very neat and a good use of Photoshop but why is
the top and bottom of the photo always blurred.
Now here are a few mistakes that you made. This selection
has to be a lot more complicated, for everything that rises
vertically from a focused into a blurred area needs to be
selected to and kept focused. In you picture there are those
poles next to the rail tracks, they are a perfect example for
the top of the pole is almost the same distance away as the
bottom thus it has to be sharp for the whole length.
its called the "Scheimpflug principle"
you can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle
Nice effect! I like how you demonstrated the Lens Blur filter,
which tends to look more realistic than a simple Gaussian
Blur. However, I noticed one major problem: You suggest
selecting "Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation" and
"Image > Adjustments > Curves."
Instead, it is always better to go to "Layer > New Adjustment
Layer > Hue/Saturation" and "Layer > New Adjustment
Layer > Curves." This latter method creates adjustment
layers which have exactly the same effect, but the
advantage is they can be doubleclicked in the Layers panel
later and modified, without compounded loss to image
quality, and they can be turned on and off any time.
The only reason for expressing my concern is that there isn't
any disadvantage to the Adjustment Layer method, and it
indoctrinates new Photoshop users into using professional
bestpractices.
Not bad, it's a tad bit too blurry in my opinion but hey, nice
instructable. Here's one I made a couple weeks ago. I keep
my radius at about 1520 depending on the picture. this
one's at 17
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i'll try MRT as my subject for tiltshift..
by the way, is this near shaw?
And here is solution for lazy one :)
http://tiltshiftmaker.com/
hey! thanx...
Be my guest :)
With this it might make some of the pics really interesting.
Thanks.
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I realy love your work!!! thanks for share!!! 4 years ago Reply
You're wanting to detach the camera from the photo,
whereas I'm trying to burrow the camera into the photo. e.g.,
If the above photo were a model, I would be taking my photo
in between the two trains, or at least looking THROUGH the
railing.
I would easily agree that in BOTH cases, perspective is
particularly important.
awesome, i saw something good today
Thank you! It's a wonderful trick!
This technique is fair, however there are some caveats
which will take away from the effect:
The point of the blur is so that things too close or too far
from the point of focus would blur out. For example, in the
4th image, the people on the side of the rail are rather in
focus even though the intent was to focus on the street
[bikeway? walkway?] below. you could always get the blur
tool out and just blur them out a smidgen and it will add to
the picture.
The vertical fade of the blur is good on the 2nd image, but
on the 3rd image, since it's a bit of a wide angle lens, you'll
want to blur the left and right sides a bit, too. Perhaps in this
case, instead of the reflected gradient, you'd probably use 2
or 3 radial gradients side to side. Or do it by hand. :)
A good rule of thumb when wanting to achieve this effect is
look at how 'far' the focal point is, and make sure everything
closer or farther gets blurred, with more blur the farther
back/closer up it is.
Author, you hit the nail on the head about the saturation! I
just over HDR'd [which led to some oversaturation] an image
I applied this effect to, and it made the image though I didn't
know why. Now I know! :)
this.. is... ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaayzing
(not a reference to "look at this amaaayyyyyzing crocodile")
Nice work!
Wow! Just, WOW! The photo totally got me. I actually
thought it was a photograph of a miniature scene / diorama.
That is SICK! I give you 5 stars and a huge thank you for
sharing how you accomplished this.
Good job! Haven't seen Manila from that perspective before.
Thanks for the great idea on a new pet project.
Even after I knew what was happening I had trouble
believing the photo wasn't of a model train. Nicely done!
Thank you. This is an istructable that I will use more than
any. The effects are very well done.
Thank you I've always wondered about those AdultSwim
pieces! Great instructions, if you know anything about
Photoshop it is simple.
I love this tutorial!! It is easy to do, and looks great.
hey, some of those are really cool :)
wow man you a filipino? nc stuff you do
Ahahahaha this is brilliant! Very well done!
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