More on miniaturizing

I found another slightly more detailed tutorial online for miniaturizing, it's pretty much the same as the one in Wired except it specifies which blur filter to use, turns out it was the one I was using! >>> http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/

For more pix of fake miniatures try typing Tilt-shift Photography into Google Images or look at the faked versions on the Flickr pool - Tilt-shift miniature fakes pool.

More miniaturizing!

I wasn't completely happy with the way the first attempt at miniaturizing the Apple Store photograph went so I tweaked it again.


This is George Square last Christmas. I took it with my cameraphone and I'm glad I know how to use Photoshop a bit better now because it needed some tweaking before I miniaturized it. Cropped and rotated a bit etc. I think this one's turned out really well :)

Mini model of Archibald Simpson's! :D

Miniaturizing

Anyone read the US Oct 2007 Wired? I got it in Borders in Glasgow today and found an ace wee quick tutorial for Photoshop in it (pg 56). Has anyone seen those photos of real life scenes that have been either photoshopped or photographed with a tilt-shift lens so that they look like everything is in miniature as if you've photographed a scale model? Well it's SO easy to do in Photoshop and only takes a sec to do! I tried it on some photographs I took in Glasgow over the weekend...

The Glasgow Apple Store - in miniature!

George Square earlier today - except now it looks like toy buses and cars!! :)

I found the tutorial on Wired's online magazine site if anyone wants to have a go:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-10/st_howtoscene

Portfolio Work Raster Pt2.4 - Purple Woods

Click to enlarge. Look closely to see who's in the woods!

For this I used a photograph I took recently of Victoria Park, Aberdeen and some images I created previously using PS's drawing brush tool. I resized the image, imported the drawings onto new layers and resized them. I changed the hue, saturation, gamma, lighting and colours of the photograph and darkened the drawings. I flipped them as well. Think that's about it! Some blurring too...

Portfolio Work Raster Pt2.3 - Lights manip

This was originally a photograph I took at night with my camera phone. It used to be a series of coloured lights from a roundabout and brightly lit street near the top of Union Street, Aberdeen. First I resized the image then resized the canvas increasing it to 150%. I filled the background layer in black to match the photograph and then used the Dark Strokes filter on the image. I adjusted the saturation and contrast of the photograph and then added anti-aliased text. I made the text overlay the image and finally smudged and blurred the edges of the lights in the photograph to make them more... spikey. :P Quite pleased with the result. :D

Portfolio Work Raster Pt2.2 - Lil' Fly

Took this photo a while ago now... enjoyed messing around with it here. I was going to crop it but when I was in the middle of doing so photoshop gave me the idea to merely frame it using contrast and brightness. Then since I hate hard lines I used the smudge tool. I also used resize image, hue and saturation.

Portfolio Work Raster Pt2.1 - Sunlight Rose

Fiddled with the image size, cropped it, adjusted the brightness and RGB levels.

Photoshopped photographs

We get to play with photoshop in class. Can't get much better than that :D


First photo has been lightened, desaturated and more. Second one has been cropped into a panorama of the beach, I fiddled with the levels a bit too. The third photograph I cropped into a panorama so that the photograph focused on the building and in the last photo I fiddled with the levels and added something in :)




Colin in Seaton Park.

Seaton Park Trees

Claire's nameplate n stuff

I'm too warm.

I want a smoothie. An Innocent Smoothie :) With passion fruit and mango... yummmm!


Btw - I made Claire a nameplate. Here it is: