Barbie´s apartment -Fake Tilt-Shift-

[PKSon]

hmm.. the whole point of emulating tilt-shift on photoshop is to make it look like a tilt-shift photo, which means that the blurring should look natural... if you leave just an ellipse focused, then it doesn't properly copy what a tilt-shift would do. Or more like what a macro photo would look like.. the DOF should be flat. So, I think you should mask the photo with a gradient (mirror gradient) and then blur out the rest... so a soft band is in focus and the rest blurred.

Hope this helps..
PK

[luismr]

Originally Posted by MaXiMuM

Fooled me... nice work

Thanks MaXiMuM!

[luismr]

Originally Posted by ckodonne

Cool effect, but this should really be done on a duplicate layer and masked to get further control over where you are blurring/bokeh-ing. The sharp area on the right is very distracting, and other areas that should not be blurred are. Such as the bottom-left portion of the balcony and the top-left corner of the room. I can almost see exactly where you drew the ellipse.

Nice work regardless, looking good.

Hello ckodonne;
I´m glad you find it interesting regarding the founded issues, I did some other experiments with tilt-shift but this one was the very 1st one using Bokeh from AlienSkin and as you can see, it wasn´t the greatest.
Here you can see the rest of the series.

Thanks for looking.

[luismr]

Originally Posted by PKSon

hmm.. the whole point of emulating tilt-shift on photoshop is to make it look like a tilt-shift photo, which means that the blurring should look natural... if you leave just an ellipse focused, then it doesn't properly copy what a tilt-shift would do. Or more like what a macro photo would look like.. the DOF should be flat. So, I think you should mask the photo with a gradient (mirror gradient) and then blur out the rest... so a soft band is in focus and the rest blurred.

Hope this helps..
PK

Hello PKSon,
Thanks for your feedback, now I know what I did wrong.

Again, thanks!

[behrangkh]

I'd suggest to keep a "band" of sharpness across image(from bottom to top) width than only an oval area.