You’ve seen them all over the web, areal views of this place and that place, landscapes, and other things that look like miniature sets. It is really easy do it with any kind of pictures, you can make those tilt/shift effect on Photoshop. This tutorial can take your existing photographs and make it look like they’re actually of miniature models. I guarantee that this will take you less than 5 minutes. First of all, you need Photoshop. I know you can do this using any photo editor but on this tutorial I’m going to use Photoshop CS2 Any image preferably landscape can be used. I’m using this image that I took at the Tall Ship Festival in Michigan.

Let’s get started bitches!.

  1. Select gradient tool or press “G”
  2. Pick selected gradient, the 4th one
  3. Select quick mask mode or press “Q”

Make sure you have black and white (default selection) selected. Next, choose which area you want to focus on the most,

once you’re ready hold shift and click then drag upward

After you let go, the result will look something like this

Press Q to get out of Quick Mask mode, this will remove the red thingy

Filter >> Blur >> Lens Blur

Set the radius to 14 or up to 20 it depends on how blurry you want it to be and the brightness should be higher than 50 (personal preference)

when done press ctrl + D to deselect

the image should look like a miniature at this point but to achieve the “plastic look” so go to Image >> Adjustments >> Hue/Saturation

Change the saturation to +20 - +30, this is all up to you. By doing this, it will make the image more vivid.

That’s it, now you can see God’s perspective. if you end up making one don’t be shy to show us and if you like this tutorial feel free to grab my RSS feed. Thanks

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