Create tilt-shifted photos with Tiltshiftmaker
Tilt-shifting, that spiffy photo effect that makes real people and objects look like part of a tiny toy set, has become really popular lately.Tilt-shift time lapse videos by Keith Loutit were recently featured all over the Internet, inspiring others to figure out how to achieve the effect in their own photos. You could Google a step-by-step tutorial, or you could save yourself the trouble and use Tiltshiftmaker.
Pop a photo into Tiltshiftmaker, move the sliders around to choose the area you want to focus on, and that's all there is to it. It seems to work best with photos that are shot from above and from a distance. If you need some inspiration, there's also Tiltshiftmaker's gallery you can check out and add your own photos to.
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Jonathan Harford said 9:59AM on 1-07-2009
Tilt-shifted photos are very cool and (as I understand it) require a very expensive lens. But fake tilt-shifted photos are nowhere near as impressive.
In the picture above, the base of the Eiffel Towel is in focus so the top (which is about as distant as the base is from the camera) should also be. Instead, it's treated as a very distant object and is thus very blurry.
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Paul Nicholson said 10:59AM on 1-07-2009
@Jonathan: Exactly what i was going to say. Cool little toy, but not very good at really making good Tilt shifts. You can still do good til-shift fakes w/o a lens, but you have to do it in photoshop and select the regions that are all at the same depth.
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