Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:44 am   Reply with quote         

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I recently received a request to make an aerial photograph of a housing
development appear as if it were a miniature scale model.

I experimented with a number of techniques that produced acceptable results
but ended up finding a tutorial online for just this sort of thing.

It's super-easy and quite effective.

This is my first attempt - I followed the tutorial and added a few minor
tweaks:

Here's one that I found online which uses the same technique. I think it's
pretty cool:

Here's the tutorial. Give it a try...

http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/

Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:51 am   Reply with quote         

ha ha thats cool, never would have thought of that, works quite well too. Nice one BC

a ha ha haaa sorry about the name error really my brain is not working today

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Friggin nifty effect. Off to look at the tut now.

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Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:12 pm   Reply with quote         

great shtuff badcop

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Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:22 pm   Reply with quote         

badcop wrote:

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This is my first attempt - I followed the tutorial and added a few minor
tweaks:

That's delicious. Did you use the classic gradient in a channel + lens blur on alpha1 technique or blur by hand ? Superb.

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Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:57 pm   Reply with quote         

That's pretty cool stuff. I make miniatures all the time, but mine are real.

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Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:01 pm   Reply with quote         

jerry717 wrote:

That's pretty cool stuff. I make miniatures all the time, but mine are real.

Gorgeous

Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:25 pm   Reply with quote         

jerry717 wrote:

That's pretty cool stuff. I make miniatures all the time, but mine are real.

Hey since those are next to dimes does that make those "D" cups?

Anyway my attempts. Not great but still cool:

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