Fake tilt-shift

July 14th, 2008 by kent

Decided to jump on the fake tilt-shift bandwagon. I went through 13 pages of the Flickr search and only saw 2 photos with a person as the main subject so I tried it on a couple older photos of mine with a person as the subject to see what would happen.

This one just needs some minor touch ups to get rid of some stray hairs on her face and maybe some different cropping but otherwise I like this one a lot.

This one would be better if I had started with a higher quality file I think. I don’t have very many wedding photos on hand and this is a low resolution PhotoCD file so it started out really blocky to begin with. The tilt-shift method actually improved it a whole lot. With a little more editing I could probably make it look a lot better overall and get it good enough to print.

For a tutorial on how to do fake tilt-shift look here, www.tiltshiftphotography.net. One thing I do differently though is to do everything on separate layers. Gives you a little more control over everything.

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