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Yes, I even tried it with Elements 2.0 and without the plugin.
How I did it:
1. as above
2. Selected the area I wanted to be in focus with the lasso tool.
3. Inverted the selection
4. Applied the Gaussian blur at 2 pixels to the inverted section.
5. Subsequently selected other parts of the picture (no inverting) and one by one applied blurs from 4, 6 or 9 pixels - the further away from the focus, the more pixels. Note that the selections should have a soft border ("weiche Auswahlkante" in German), ca. 3-5 px.
6. Cleaned up the whole thing by selecting the blur tool (? - in german it's called "Weichzeichner") and applied it where necessairy.
Originally posted 76 months ago.
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cervelatpromi edited this topic 76 months ago.
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Great advice! I followed and was able to do a decent first job in elements. 
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OK some questions.
"Selected the area I wanted to be in focus with the lasso tool"
Regular lasso tool, magnetic or polygonal?
"Inverted the selection"
You mean right click and choose invert?
"Subsequently selected other parts of the picture (no inverting) and one by one applied blurs from 4, 6 or 9 pixels"
What blurs? Gaussian blur?
"Cleaned up the whole thing by selecting the blur tool (? - in german it's called "Weichzeichner") and applied it where necessary"
Do you mean like around the boarders?
Sorry about all the stupid question but I`m fairly new to Photoshop and my version is 4.0
Posted 76 months ago.
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Regular lasso tool, magnetic or polygonal?
- I used the regular one, because the other ones don't always do what I want them to do...
You mean right click and choose invert?
- that's right.
What blurs? Gaussian blur?
- yes.
Do you mean like around the boarders?
- yes, sometimes you can see the differences between the areas done with different pixels if you do it like that.
Using the blur tool wipes out these borders.
I hope I make myself clear, I'm not a PS wizard myself...
Posted 76 months ago.
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One thing:
How do you achieve the toy look?
I was trying to follow your first post but everything I did was blur the picture.
Nothing else change...angle, view, etc.
I noticed some pictures looks to be taken from far away and give you the feeling you`re watching toys instead of real people (<---- Sure you know this but I can`t come with other way to explain)
Posted 76 months ago.
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Well you have to leave one part of the photo unblurred. That's why I first selected what I wanted to be in focus, then blurred everything else around it by inverting the selection.
Of course there are pictures that work better and others that don't. Best thing to start with (as you may have noticed in the pool) are pictures taken from a tower, a high rise building, a hill or something like that.
Originally posted 76 months ago.
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cervelatpromi edited this topic 76 months ago.
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Just did this following miwo76's instructions to the letter:
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its not only the photoshopping part thats important. the original photo should be a good one. i found out how to do tilt-shift only last week and was able to make the following photo : )
Posted 53 months ago.
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This is fun. I used Elements 6.
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This thread's nearly dead, but I just wanted to say thanks to the contributors - it was really helpful to have an idea of how to do it in Elements the very basic way.
My first tilt-shift!:
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I am not either understanding this thing. I have a PSE6 mac version and those plugins isnt applied on these. Also i am new to PSE, how is this made easy (or is it)?
Some step-by-step instructions is needed from the basis that one dont know anything how its done unless written somewhere.
Posted 31 months ago.
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www.recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/index.html
Posted 30 months ago.
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