Tilt-Shift Effect

How to create a Tilt-Shift Effect with Photoshop Touch
Create the impression of a miniature landscape with this popular photographic technique.
1. After selecting the "Tilt-Shift Effect" tutorial, press "Begin Tutorial" to start. Choose Adjustments > Saturation.
2. Change the Saturation to about 67% and tap OK
3. Tap Add Layer and create a duplicate
4. Choose Effects > Basic > Gaussian Blur
5. Set Blur to about 10. Tap OK.
6. Pinch and zoom out with two fingers to reduce the view to about 50%.
Tip: Zooming out before you continue to the next step will allow you to see the entire image while creating a gradient mask for the blurred layer.
7. Tap the & menu, then Add Fade.
8. Select a vertical gradient and move the lower gradient handle to the bottom of the image.
9. Tap the Edit Gradient button to alter the gradient
10. Move the right transparent spot button to the middle. Add another opacity spot by tapping at the right edge of the gradient slider where the moved spot should be.
Tip: You can remove unwanted gradient spots by dragging them vertically out of the spot area.
11. Change the new spot Opacity to 100%. The Opacity gradient should vary from 100% to 0% to 100%. Tap OK.
Tip: Tapping a spot on the gradient bar toggles the Opacity slider on and off.
12. Tap the back arrow in the top options bar. This will prompt you to save. Press Save to save your project.
If you would like to view this tutorial in a PDF format, download the attachment
Janelle

I'm kind of restricted as to the height and position on the indoors shots. I have my eye on positions but it means climbing up on things and getting into corners but, if needs must.
I was using alpha channels as the angles I've used so far don't lend themselves to making a straight mask. I'll stick with it though, it might look better on just the automated machine with no people.
Maybe being forced into working with odd angles and positions might give the video something unique over the rest, probably not though. I guess there's only one way to find out.

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Are you referring to the picture frames and text boxes in an iPhoto book? If so try these key combinations:
You can "adjust" a photo frame or text box size on a page with the following key combinations:
Command + Option +⬆arrow: increase frame height.
Command + Option +⬇arrow: decrease frame height.
Command + Option + ➜ arrow: increase frame width.
Command + Option + ⬅ arrow: decrease frame width.
To adjust its position on the page use these key combinations:
Command + Control + ➜ arrow: move frame to right.
Command + Control + ⬅ arrow: move frame to left.
Command + Control + ⬆ arrow: rotate frame counter clockwise.
Command + Control + ⬇ arrow: rotate frame clockwise.
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thanks.

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Tilt & shift for video.

Hello,
I´ve been shooting (video) landscape/houses with a 5DMIII. Using an L zoom like EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM to make a panoramic shot rotating my camera slowly with my tripod/video head, Its certain that distortion is present in my footage. Especially with buildings, using the more wide range (16-24mm) of that lens. You know what I mean. Vertical lines moving while the camera rotates.
A friend of mine made the same footage with the EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM and at the 24mm range the distortion is also present while the camera moves.
Now, if I use a tilt & shift lens like the TS-E24mm f/3.5L II will I be able to correct perspective first and start doing my video panoramic keeping the perspective correction? Or this feature is just ok for still photography?
I guess this problem is less evident while shooting landscape from a distance and very present shooting houses/cities from closer points of view (here is my real problem). But I need to register both.
Any help will be very appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Regards.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

A T/S lens is not what you want for this. You want a lens with low distortion (no barrel, pincushion, or mustache distortion).
If you're compositing multiple shots together, you don't need to start with a wide lens. A lens like the Canon 50mm f/2.5 macro has very little geometric distortion, so it's great for taking photos that will be stitched together.
If you're just looking for a lens that won't bend lines as you pan, find an older Canon 20-35mm f/2.8L lens and set it to about 28mm. It's almost perfect at that point.
I'm a cinematographer in Chicago using mostly Canon gear. I also founded MKE Production Rental in Milwaukee.

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I have tried to combine 9 photos taken with a tilt shift lens (each photo is corrected in camera by the tilt shift and in portrait) into a panorama. I cannot get any satisfactory results with the stitching process in photoshop CC 2014. I have tried a combination of options from Auto through to selecting the others but to no avail. Photoshop can stitch 3 images by selecting perspective option and checking the geometric distortion option. That apears to be the best it can do. Can anyone help me stitch the 9 images? Thanks.

There are stitching applications that do a much better job stitching then Photomerge they were designed to stitch and have controls and features. Their autostitch mode work better then Photomerge. for example look at Autopano Pro and if you want to go big Autopano Giga.
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Unsung New Feature: Tilt-Shift Blur

Have you ever wanted to make a photo seem to have shorter depth of field? Prior to Photoshop CS6 this was no small feat to achieve digitally and end up with a pleasing and visually believable result.
Photographers know that setting the aperture wide can change the mood of a shot completely. Sometimes getting the DOF just right can make the difference between an "also ran snapshot" and an award winning photograph.
With today's smaller digital sensors - and even with big sensors if too small an aperture is available - sometimes we get an image that's exposed right, that's composed well, that's caught the moment... But... More of it is sharp than we'd like, and the background or foreground is simply distracting.
Enter the new Photoshop CS6 blur filters.
With the Tilt-Shift variant, one can progressively blur pixels based on a definable gradient/mask, so that we get that familiar progressive front-to-back blur change.
Armed with this powerful new capability, and with the subject masking/separation facilities we've had for a couple of versions now, this becomes possible:
1. Separate subject from surroundings with a good mask - e.g., quick select, refine edge, make a new layer with just the parts you want to remain sharp showing on it. A good mask isn't difficult to make any more! Hide this layer when done.
2. Remove the subject, at least around the edges, from the background layer underneath, e.g., by selecting using the above mask, expanding the selection, and doing Content Aware Fill and/or Cloning. This is important because in the subsequent blur operation we don't want parts of the sharp subject blurring into the background. That just looks weird.
3. Use Photoshop CS6's Tilt-Shift Blur to visually shorten the DOF in the background layer, with the center point and unblurred region set to coincide with the position of the subject in the shot. Adjust the settings to taste, which isn't as much of a crap shoot any more since the blurs actually update in real time on screen.
4. Make the layer above visible, maybe do some things with the lighting (which is fairly easy, now that subject is separated from the background), and voila, a whole new feel to the photo.
Consider this example...
Before:
After:
Almost as good as a new $10,000 lens!
-Noel

Thanks.
Any idea why we can't use them as Smart Filters?
No idea, other than the possibility that the Adobe people struggled so hard to get all the new functionality done in time for release that they didn't have time to think about the finer points of integrating the new designs into the existing features. It's not the only instance of this kind of omission.
Noting that this new concept of the blur functions acting more like a new "mode" of Photoshop than a filter plug-in... The workspace changes, but instead of popping up a whole new UI, we just stay right in Photoshop. You and I might agree that such an implementation change should have been designed to work smoothly together with all the existing facilities, but I get the distinct impression that Adobe doesn't feel that level of compatibility in every new design is as important as we do, and may simply have not thought all the implications through - incredible as that may sound.
Some new stuff doesn't work with actions, other stuff doesn't work with smart filters, still other stuff works differently when accelerated vs. non-accelerated... One could be forgiven for getting the impression that the Adobe team was just barely capable of delivering the features they have here, vs., delivering a well-designed, completely integrated, well-tested solution. Part of that is that it's 13.0, but I think part of it must have to do with them being tasked to do too many things with the funding they have.
-Noel

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