Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Tilt Shift effect in photoshop


Since I've no TS Lens (but most probably the Canon 24mm TS-E will be my next lens) I love to recreate one of the effects obtainable with this lovely lens...

The basic steps I use to recreate the effects are:


  • In quick Mask mode, select gradient toolwith reflected gradient
  • make a selection end exit the quick mask mode
  • Lens Blur filter should be the tool of choice here,

    • Depth Map to 0 (but sometimes adding a mask here could help)
    • Specular Highlights to 0 (but low values could create a nice effect)
    • radius/blade/curvature depend on photo and effect desired, but 50/0/0 generally work for me

  • raising contrast curves and saturation could help for the little toy effect


this could do the trick