Tilt-shift Miniature Fakes / Discuss

zachstern says:

shygantic - thanks - I love the gimp as well and I found your tutorial quite useful!
Posted 88 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 88 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 88 months ago. (permalink)

arripay 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 88 months ago. (permalink)

Yay, it's Rob! says:

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

Thanks!
Posted 87 months ago. (permalink)

GothCandy says:

From



Comes


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.
Originally posted 87 months ago. (permalink)
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FaniRama says:

Nice tutorial. I've successfully created my own. It worked quite well. Thanks.
Posted 86 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 84 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 83 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.


Originally posted 82 months ago. (permalink)
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jurabilis says:

I gave it a try, too:



Thank you for the lens blur plug-in.
Originally posted 78 months ago. (permalink)
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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 78 months ago. (permalink)

Tyler Gavett (old account) says:

what does everyone think of this:

am i doing anything wrong?
Posted 71 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 63 months ago. (permalink)

JenniferTraina.com says:

I'm in LOVE with this effect!
Posted 63 months ago. (permalink)

chad.latta says:

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


Posted 62 months ago. (permalink)

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

thx for posting ;)

my second trial



greetz max
Posted 62 months ago. (permalink)

big_mouth [deleted] says:

Posted 62 months ago. (permalink)

Dirk Hartung says:

I tried it as well with the Focus Blur:

Posted 59 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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Sarah L. Carnes Photography 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 56 months ago. (permalink)

itscosmo says:

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

Ningaloo / Aeriali.net 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 53 months ago. (permalink)

(deaf mute) 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 / Aeriali.net 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 53 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 53 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 53 months ago. (permalink)

chootx says:

how do i delete the quick mask? i'm using gimp 2.6
Posted 50 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 50 months ago. (permalink)

Arne (macroporn.de) 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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Arne (macroporn.de) says:

And my second try:

Posted 47 months ago. (permalink)

mollyann. says:

thank you! this was very clear and helpful!
Posted 47 months ago. (permalink)

Andrew West Photography says:

I have learned this using the select tools and the blend tool. I like the blended look but that lacks the ability to choose a specific location. On the other hand, I like being able to select whatever I want using the select tools but that lacks any blending. Is there a way to compromise the two? I can't figure it out. :(
Posted 44 months ago. (permalink)

a-kid says:

Here is my first attempt at fake tilt-shift on GIMP: comments welcome :)


Posted 43 months ago. (permalink)

fiona j. says:

my first attempt, followed this tutorial (with modifications) and used the focus blur plugin. took a bit of fiddling to work out focus blur, and i'm not sure the subject was ideal for the effect, but a good exercise!



depth map (before cropping):

Originally posted 36 months ago. (permalink)
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private miguev says:

Sweet! I just saw this Photoshop-based tutorial and though "hey, let's try with the Gimp"... and went to bed at 4am :D

It didn't occur to me to play with the curves, will try next time, not too bad so far anyway...




Posted 32 months ago. (permalink)

grobwire says:

This is my attempt

knehcsg says:

the focus blur based on a depth map method described above, makes it possible to have correct depth of field for objects extending to the vertical:

if you want to have a miniature/toy effect that's the way to go.