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You’ve probably all seen a tilt-shift photo – a real scene that is edited to make it look like a smaller model. This is usually done by trial and error with a tilt-shift camera, or digitally with by blurring & enhancing colours of certain parts certain parts of a picture in PhotoShop, but both ways are cumbersome and take a long time to do.

Lifehacker have recently found a free online tool, tiltshiftmaker, that can automatically tilt-shift photographs for you. All you do is upload from your computer (or provide a URL of a photo on the web) and move the image band until the preview looks right. That’s all! Have a look at one I made of a photo taken on the Paris trip in Novemeber.

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Yup, now it looks like I have a Moulin Rouge model. tiltshiftmaker is free and extremely simple to use, whilst producing high quality results. Check it out, see who you can fool with it. Also, have a look at TiltShiftPhotography, which has lots of examples of tilt-shift fake photos, and tutorials of how to make your own.

[http://tiltshiftmaker.com/]
[http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/]