This week's Edit Me challenge photo comes from Rosie of Leavesnbloom Studio. I took advantage of this sleepy-sheepy castle scene to try out a new technique: imitating the effect of a tilt-shift lens.
 | Before I mention anything about technique, can I just point out how hard it is for me to tear my eyes away from that blocky roofline? I keep thinking this is a very LOW resolution image and those are big ugly pixels. OK, tilt-shift: I created a duplicate layer, and applied a Gaussian blur. Then I created a new transparent layer, and used the gradient tool to black out the parts I wanted blurry. Next, I grouped the blurry background copy with the gradient layer. |
I adjusted the blurry and non-blurry portions with a low-opacity black brush and a low-opacity eraser. The rest was just tweaking colors. I'll probably get better at making it look more realistic with practice (and by more realistic, I mean of course more fake-miniature).
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