Tilt-shift Miniature Fakes / Discuss

zachstern    says:

shygantic - thanks - I love the gimp as well and I found your tutorial quite useful!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

earth2marsh    says:

Shygantic, nice simple steps!

May I suggest Focus Blur as an alternative to the Gaussian Blur? It gives good results with 10.00 radius, flat model, and 255 focus. (There was a windows binary version somewhere once, but it seems to have disappeared!)

Also, you might add something like "delete the quick mask" before adjusting curves in step 4.

My first T-S fake:

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earth2marsh    says:

Update: I've been playing with depth maps and the Focus Blur plugin. This one is improved:


See the description for more info. Also see:
fancy masks (see mute*'s post). Another good example here.
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shygantic [deleted] says:

The only plugins I have ever used are the defaults. I should really check them out.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

earth2marsh    says:

If anyone needs the Focus Blur binary, I've mirrored it here temporarily as it seems to have disappeared. Place it in your lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins folder.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

slideshow bob    says:

Thankyou so much for this explanation of tilt shift in gimp and the focus blur plug in and the explanation of how to 'install' the plug in! You have solved 3 problems of mine in 5 minutes!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

MusicRob says:

I don't own Photoshop and have always wanted to try tilt-shift.

Thanks!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

GothCandy    says:

From



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Settings include 30px blur, sparkle (apparently unused) and mask. Gradient is comprised of a bi-linear gradient with a radial gradient overlay at around 30% opacity, then adjusted with Levels & Curves tools.
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FaniRama says:

Nice tutorial. I've successfully created my own. It worked quite well. Thanks.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

nickleus    says:

Thanks for the tutorial! Gimp rules =) Here's my first tilt-shift miniature fake:

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nickleus    says:

Don't feel limited to using the gradient tool. You don't even need to do the quick mask thing either. You can select something with the "Select rectangular regions" or "Select elliptical regions" or "Select hand-drawn regions", then do:
Select > Invert

then go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian blur
ok

for example:

you can see that i've made clear the left and right regions of us, but we in between are blurry. this isn't the best example of a tilt shift fake, but just illustrates that it is possible to select what you want instead of just a horizontal line the entire way across the picture...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

nickleus    says:

Here i wrote a tutorial about how to select 2 different areas that are completely unconnected to each other (like the picture in my last post):
norgesinternettforum.no/showthread.php?p=2491
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DaveSinclair    says:

thanks for the tip! Just tried it for myself ...

Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Hailebande says:

That's a great instruction. Thank you very much, shygantic. I just tried it with a photo of the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany.


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jurabilis    says:

I gave it a try, too:



Thank you for the lens blur plug-in.
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TTChopper says:

Does anyone have any experience installing the fblur plugin on os x? I've tried following the instructions to install it using gimptool, but I appear to get a compile error.

>CFLAGS="-O2 -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -DFBLUR_PREVIEW=1 -DENABLE_NLS" /Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gimptool-2.0 --install Downloads/fblur-2.3.c

typing the above results in the errors below:
/Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gimptool-2.0: line 327: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
/Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gimptool-2.0: line 346: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Tyler Gavett says:

what does everyone think of this:

am i doing anything wrong?
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

Roger T Wong    says:

Hi, I'm using FBlur and it's working fine, but there's something about using FFTW to speed up the maths on the FBlur homepage. Has anyone had any success installing FFTW since it seems like you have to know about compiling in C which I don't know how to do!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

JenniferTraina.com says:

I'm in LOVE with this effect!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

chad.latta says:

Great post. I just started this technique and its a lot of fun!


Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

[~_~] Strings_of_Infinity [~_~] says:

thx for posting ;)

my second trial



greetz max
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Dirk Hartung    says:

I tried it as well with the Focus Blur:

Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

DrDamage73 says:

Hey, great tutorial on how to create tilt shift effects in GIMP.
I tried it myself and here is the first result, enjoy :)


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DrDamage73 says:

Second attempt :)


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Passion4Film    says:

When I go to Gaussian Blur, it doesn't do anything. This is my first time with the Gimp, so I'm not surprised, lol.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

itscosmo says:

Glad I stumbled on this tutorial. Here is my first attempt.

Ningaloo    says:

Am I going nuts?.... I cannot see any gradient tool in GIMP 2.6 which I've recently downloaded. So I can't even complete step 1.

Help!!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

The Artster    says:

If Gimp has a toolbar like Photoshop, then the grad fill tool should be next to the paint bucket icon.
If not, someone else will tell you what it looks like. Or you could just like, use the HELP menu and search for "gradient fill".
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Ningaloo    says:

Thanks, I'll check it out when I get home tonight....... I have seen 3 different guides which say use the gradient tool but it is still a mystery to me.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

trypdwyre says:

In GIMP the term "gradient" is referred to as "blend". It's generally between the paint bucket and the pencil, or you can use Tools > Paint Tools > Blend (or the hotkey for it is L ). You'll want to choose "Bi-linear" for shape and put a check in the box next to the gradient (this will make the default "FG to BG" the inverse "BG to FG" that you'll need).
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

trypdwyre says:

I just realized that it actually makes it easier not to invert the blend tool. Scratch that... Here are my attempts:




and


Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

chootx    says:

how do i delete the quick mask? i'm using gimp 2.6
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

chootx    says:

Swishrelic    says:

Thanks for the guide - after a bit of blood pressure raising fun I got there in the end :)


Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

arne1101    says:

nice tutorial! here is my first try


as a last step is played arround with the saturation of some colors for a better plastic model effect.
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