Tilt & Shift Miniatures type
The idea of \u200b\u200bthis tutorial is to present different ways to create images that have the appearance of miniatures, models, or models.
This effect is typically achieved through the manipulation of the DOF (depth of field) of the photo so that only a sliver of the picture is in focus with the rest desenfocado.Esto, along with an aerial perspective gives the feeling of watching a scale model rather than an actual photo.
We will present three ways to achieve this effect:
- Using a Tilt & Shift lens
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- software using a web site using
This option is the simplest and purest of all it is with which we achieve the effect of perfectly without any mistakes in the way we created the selective blur.
Tilt & Lenses Shift has the feature of being able to move in 3 planes can rotate, can be tilted to one side or another a certain amount of degrees (tilt) or can move to one side or the other (shift).
These moves allow you to manipulate the lens focal plane of a very broad and are widely used in architecture, landscaping and other areas to control the DOF, perspective or even to make panoramic shots. On another occasion, in time, we'll talk again of using these lenses, for today only use them to thumbnails.
To make a model with a T & S lens we use the tilt mechanism of the lens, and use it in an aerial view photo, see how the area in focus is reduced to a strip to be steeper smaller or larger lens tilt angle we use. By trial and error you can reach the DOF necessary to take the picture that we already have a good sense of layout.
After the photo is processed and for that we can use method 2 skipping steps in which imitates the operation of the tilt & shift lens.
software emulation
There are many web tutorials on how to create thumbnails tilt & shift, can google for more information about it, here is the basic method on this occasion using Gimp. In Photoshop should be equal to the minimal differences on nomenclature and interfaces between the two programs.
Step One: The photo
We need a picture that is appropriate to apply the effect, overall aerial photos are appropriate but we try another type although the effect is not always good in any photo.
In this case we start with a photo of Honolulu Harbor taken from a tower.
first thing we do is duplicate the layer.
About
layer Duplicate apply a blur, you can use the gaussian blur or otherwise, in gimp is a plugin called focus blur that works very well, we applied to the upper layer to make an image out of focus.
now have the top layer out of focus and the bottom layer in focus, what remains is to bring up the bottom layer in the strip or area that we focus. To do this we add a mask and then use a gradient of bi-linear type to create a black strip that fades to white.
The result is something like:
As we see the effect is taking shape. One advantage of using two layers is that if we can, with a brush, work on the mask to selectively sharpen or blur different parts of the picture, you can make many fine adjustments as necessary to obtain a result that pleases us.
The last step is to make some adjustments on the final image, these also serve as settings for images taken with a tilt & shift lens to increase the look plastic / metal photo and that seems more a model what we do is:
- saturation
- Increase Increase Increase brightness
- a
The result in this case was as follows:
Using a Web site
Finally if we are not take us all this work we test a web site called Tiltshiftmaker and allows you to upload a photo and apply the effect tilt & shift, the results are sometimes great but not always as good as what we can achieve by hand.
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