Mini-it

What would things look like if they were miniature.

Tilt Shift Maker tries to make it quickly possible for the general public. By choosing which areas to focus on, it blurs everything else, giving depth of field, and hence, the illusion of miniaturism. Check it out!!

I did a couple of tests, and here's how it came out:

So what do you think? Do they look convincing?

I had to process them a little further in Photoshop because the online application has limits, such as, objects in the foreground that fall into the "focused" areas will remain focused, and break the illusion.

I think the program works by increasing the highlights, reducing the shadows, and bringing the saturation to +25. It then does a Gaussian blur and masks out the focused areas. A tip is to use nice landscape shots. The illusion doesn't work for portraits or macro shots.

I guess it's quite interesting. Kept me entertained for a half an hour. I guess you really have to make yourself believe they are miniature though, especially for the ones you made yourself.

But nevertheless, good fun :D