from above

More playing around with tilt-shifting in Photoshop. Works really well looking down from above...

Photos can be viewed individually here.
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faking instagram pt.2

Following on from my previous post 'Faking Instagram', there was one more effect that I really like in Instagram that I wanted to show you - that sort of blurry-all-around-the-edges-with-the-focus-right-in-the-centre-so-everything-looks-sort-of-miniature. That is not the technical name. I have since found out the technical name for this effect is tilt-shift. I'll show you a before and after so you can see what I mean. 

Here is a photo of my sister-in-law Matina in Amsterdam some years ago, straight out the camera:

And here's the tilt-shift version. I applied the Earlybird action first.

You can find a quick tutorial for creating tilt-shift effects here. And some more of my experiments here. So there you go, some lovely fake Instagram effects to play around with! Enjoy!