make a mini village or town in photoshop.

this instructible will show you how to give a photo of a town a handmade look.

Step 1: First things first!

of a town, city, football stadium, or anything you want to miniturise
i used this picture i found on the net!

i love the net.

Comments

[isketch93]

 Nice Instructable! ;D
And nice effect too! I tried to "minimize" two different shots of the city where I live, but I think the first one is the best:

[Clayton H.]

Heres Mine:

[PocketSized]

In Step 1 you say:
"of a town, city, football stadium, or anything you want to miniturise
i used this picture i found on the net!

i love the net.'

Are you going to give credit to the person(s) who took this photograph? Or are you going to do what you did in your other Instructable, and use someone elses photo without giving credit and/or asking their permission?

[MasterMediaXD]

Dude, Give him/her a break

[opanocat5]

Yeah leave him alone

[DELETED_cholo71796]

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[Project D]

I wholeheartedly agree with you. Constructive criticism, not derisive attacks.

[PocketSized]

I find it disheartening to know that there are people out there, such as yourself, who would prefer to name call rather than agree that the original owner of the photograph deserves credit for his work (merely as an act of kindness would be enough). Apparently you would prefer to assume all work is within the public domain, unless proven otherwise? Without taking into account conventions such as the Berne Convention, which states that copyright of original work is automatic at the point of it's creation. Perhaps one day you will understand how irritating it is to find someone using your creations without permission, or even credit. But I doubt it. So carry on endorsing plagiarism.

[blugyblug]

Pocket is right you know, something like this doesnt REALLY need credit, its better if you do though. But if you do something like this with something bigger, itll be worse. Just a warning, because this is small but it might grow up.

[pooandwee]

maybe i did ask theyre permission.... dont be so quick to criticise

[amakerguy]

Amazing! what version of photoshop do you have? I have CS3 ver 10.0

[Project D]

Great instruct. It really gives a great jumping off point for making some awesome effects. I never would've thought of this, myself.

[finfan7]

If you notice the top of the tower is blurred even though it has a depth very close to that of the clock face. It should be clear. If you want it to look real you have to pay attention to actual depth of field.

[The Porsche Fan]

cool effect

[flippingflipper]

cool, i saw this on photojojo a while ago.

[fungus amungus]

Also, this is faking a technique called "tilt shift."

For a few (thousand) more examples. Check out this Flickr pool:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/pool/

[Patrik]

If you want to be a little more elaborate, you can try select by hand the parts of the image are at roughly the same distance from the camera - that's essentially what this trick is based on: the fact that a "macro" image tends to have a very limited depth of focus. For example, the cars on the road to the left of the tower would be much farther away from the camera than the tower itself. So for the road, the focal plane - the part that should be sharpest - should be much closer towards the bottom of the image. But for a quick hack, just picking a horizontal rectangle already gives great results!

[fungus amungus]

Exactly. For many shots, the horizontal band works well enough, but a little extra work with the masking will give a more believable effect.

[darth2o]

Wow, that is a cool effect. +