This is a tutorial on how to create the look and feel of minature models as if using a real tilt-shift lens on your camera. It's usually best to use this tecchnique on images of a city and/or where this is a crowd. You can try it on any other image of course and see what you can acheive. It's a quick and simple tutorial; hope you enjoy it!

1- Open your photography in Adobe Photo shop (I use CS3)

2- Go into Quick mask Mode and then select the Gradient Tool and click on the Reflected Type. Make a gradient depending on where you see fit in your photo and to your liking. Then get out of Quick mask Mode and Select>Inverse if you have to.

3- Go to Filter>Blur>Lens blur and I just left everything as default and played around with the Radius; you could also change the shape of the Iris to whatever you want. I made it Iris.

4- Click OK. De-select by pressing Ctrl+D. Now add an adjustment layer of Hue/Saturation and increase it a little (I'd advise not more than 50); again if you wish and if it suits your image you can increase the contrast a little bu adding a Curves adjustment to it too.

And that's how you get the look of tilt-shift photography if you can't afford to buy the actual lens.

Thanks everyone and let me know how your images come out, would love to see what you guys do with this technique!

C ya next time!

Bashar Alaeddin
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