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Creating a Tilt & Shift Lens Effect with Photoshop

Creating a tilt & shift lens effect to create fake miniatures is probably the second most popular effect next to creating HDR’s at the moment. So to end the week, here is a little bonus screencast where I put my own spin on the whole “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” look! :)

Thanks to Jamie Welsh for providing the image of the locomotives. Its perfect for this effect because of the angle at which the shot was taken. You really have to be elevated to make the whole fake miniature effect work well. Enjoy!

© Jamie Welsh

© Jamie Welsh

You can view Jamie’s original shot here. >

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    October 17, 2009 at 1:59 pm

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  2. Rob Brook says:
    October 19, 2009 at 7:49 am

    Superb tutorial Stu really liked this one.

  3. Stuart Little says:
    October 19, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Its a little favourite of mine as well. Thanks for the feedback its good to know you are everyone else is enjoying the screencasts.

  4. David Sherwood says:
    October 19, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    I really like the tilt & shift effect – but cannot quite justify the cost of a Nikkor Lens. This process made it all seem so simple – can’t wait to try it on some car/train shots. I have seen some other processes in magazines but this seemed very simple in comparison and still produced the desired result.

  5. Stuart Little says:
    October 19, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    I am really pleased you will find use for it. I like to where possible keep the techniques simple especially for effects like this… Enjoy!

  6. Sandy says:
    November 14, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    Just posted link to this on another flickr forum which had a tilt shilt topic

  7. Stuart Little says:
    November 15, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Thanks Sandy… :)

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