Monday, October 15, 2007

CityShrinker




Peep this site CityShrinker.com out, this guy takes photos of cityscapes and then "miniaturizes" them to make them look like models. I actually seen an ad in the most recent WIRED magazine on how to do this in Photoshop. I'm going to give you step by step instructions on how do this cool technique.

It's called a tilt-shift effect. (without the expen$ive tilt-shift lens)

1. Import your image to Photoshop, then press Q to enter Quickmask mode.
2. Select the gradient tool and set it to Reflected Gradient. Click on the area you want to be in focus and drag the cursor in the direction you want the image to blur.
3. Press Q again to complete the mask.
4. Apply a blur filter from the Filters menu.
5. BUG OUT on your creation!

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