Miniature faking - Tilt-Shift Photography

One of the applications of Tilt Shift is a neat (albeit bordering on gimmicky) photo effect which gives the illusion of a miniaturized world.

(A better more subtle use of Tilt-Shifting is to control perspective to include the a larger imaging area without an undesired distortion effect - i.e. keeping the walls of a tall building parallel on the final photo. You need a lens for that!)

You normally use a camera lens with a shallow depth of field, shot at a higher altitude (to give the "God" effect), wide angle and saturated colors to simulate bright clean models. But you can fake it with Photoshop (see below).

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You can find the Photoshop Tutorial to create this effect here

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