{"id":10,"date":"2010-12-11T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-12-11T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:45:00","slug":"first-experiment-wth-faking-tilt-shift-in-gimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/10\/","title":{"rendered":"First Experiment wth Faking Tilt Shift in GIMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/580433-REG\/Lensbaby_LBM2C_Muse_Special_Effects_SLR.html\">Lensbaby Muse<\/a> lately, thinking I\u2019d like to try some tilt-shift photography. While searching I noticed there were many posts on how to \u201cfake\u201d a tilt-shift image in Photoshop. Since I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\"><span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span><\/a> to post-process all of my photos I naturally adjusted my query and came up with <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2d8n5ss\">several tutorials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Saylorville Outlet Original by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5250216601\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5042\/5250216601_5dd7337fc3.jpg\" alt=\"Saylorville Outlet Original\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The above, rather bland image was taken at the Saylorville Dam, just north of Des Moines, IA. I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=774\">this fake tilt shift method<\/a> to produce the following two images:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Saylorville Outlet Tilt Shift One by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5250821694\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5165\/5250821694_897ed99b5c.jpg\" alt=\"Saylorville Outlet Tilt Shift One\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Saylorville Outlet Tilt Shift Two by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5250821270\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5281\/5250821270_71035404e7.jpg\" alt=\"Saylorville Outlet Tilt Shift Two\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I also found a <a href=\"http:\/\/ffaat.pointclark.net\/blog\/archives\/158-A-Better-Fake-Tilt-Shift-with-the-Gimp.html\">second method<\/a> which is more complicated, but it appears to give more control over the focus and a bit more creative leeway. With this method, I suspect you can push the bounds of what is possible even with an actual tilt shift lens. I need to test it out some time soon, I guess!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been looking at the Lensbaby Muse lately, thinking I\u2019d like to try some tilt-shift photography. While searching I noticed there were many posts on how to \u201cfake\u201d a tilt-shift image in Photoshop. Since I use GIMP to post-process all of my photos I naturally adjusted my query and came up with several tutorials. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[146,169,198],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-photos-2","tag-saylorville","tag-tilt-shift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}