Miniature Effect With Tilt-Shift In Photoshop CS6

Miniature Effect With Tilt-Shift In Photoshop CS6
 


Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photo Effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a miniature effect in Photoshop CS6 using its brand new Tilt-Shift blur filter. Tilt-shift camera lenses are often used with architecture photography to prevent perspective distortion, or with landscape or product photos to control the plane of focus, but they can also be used to make real life scenes look more like tiny miniature sets, transforming full size people, cars, buildings and so on into little mini versions of themselves. It works by creating a shallow depth of field, the kind you’d expect to see with macro photography, so your real life photo ends up looking more like a miniature scene shot up close with a macro lens.
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This effect works best with a photo taken from high overhead and looking down on your subject at an angle. You’ll also want a photo where everything is initially in focus, since we’re going to adjust the depth of field ourselves. Here’s the image I’ll be using: