Simulating a Tilt/Shift lens in Photoshop to produce the "miniature effect"

<p>I have completed a beginner to intermediate level Photoshop tutorial that tries to provide a step by step guide to converting real world photographs into images that appear as if they are of models or miniature sets.</p>

<p>I have posted this <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mikeoday-photography.blogspot.com/2009/08/tutorial-miniature-effect.html">"Miniature Effect"</a> tutorial to my <a rel="nofollow" href="http://MikeODay-Photography.blogspot.com">blog</a> at:</p>

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<p>Please let me know if you find it useful.</p>

 

<p>Mike, I have no idea why you'd want to make reality look like an H.O. train set, but I find your tutorial fascinating, and your discussion of the psycho-optic phenomena well thought through.<br>

The results you achieve are amazing !<br>

I'm waiting for Rodan or Gammera to show up and start breaking stuff !<br>

:-)</p>

<p>Bill P.</p>

<p>It's probably good, if it wasn't too complicated to read it. Why can't you just write the tutorial as a blog post instead of posting it as bunch of images? Even the download link is not one-step process.</p>

<p>Thanks, Mike. Looks pretty good, I'll have to give it a try.</p>

<p>Thanks guys for your comments, they are much appreciated.</p>

<p>Cheers Bill I’m glad you found in interesting. I had not thought of the stop-action low budget films but you’re right, one could imagine Godzilla breaking through the trees :).</p>

<p>Thanks Joshua for the feedback and I agree it would be better (for many reasons) if the tutorial was presented as a blog apost. The problem is my complete and utter ignorance of almost all things ‘blog’! I have never had a web page and my first attempt at a blog only began a month ago. So trying to create a blog post with all the formatting in my tutorial is completely beyond me at this stage. I’ve tried to find tutorials to help but so far all of the ‘beginner’ level tutorials I can find assume that you are already on the 1^st few steps of the learning curve and I’m still wading through all the jargon and acronyms between me and the curve! Anyway, my problem. As for the tutorial, I had to stick to what I know or I’d still be on the first page fighting with the editor. </p>

<p>Thanks Andrew, all the best with it.</p>

<p>Cheers<br />Mike</p>