Comments on: How to Turn Your Favorite Photo into a Miniature Masterpiece

By: Will

Will — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:29:33 +0000

Awesome! I always saw this effect around and figured it was more difficult, So I never looked into it.
I ran across this by chance and it was probably the easiest thing I’ve ever done on photoshop.
Photoshop never ceases to amaze me. I’ve been using it for about a decade and there are always new amazing things that I discover every day.
Thanks for this post!
~Will Barnes

By: Ajith

Ajith — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:00:21 +0000

I tried this, but never somehow got the required effect. My subject is in the middle, like yours, but I do not have environmental elements throughout the photo. So instead I tried it with a Radial gradient. It got me closer, but not just quite the rather amazing effect you got. Could someone help me here?

By: Bill Jones

Bill Jones — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:33:32 +0000

@memorycardfull

This is such a simple quick technique to implement that one doesn’t really have to use many layers.

I always like to make an initial copy of the original on a separate layer.

After you create the lens blur make a duplicate layer and then work on the plastic look (saturation and contrast).

Hope that helps.

By: memorycardfull

memorycardfull — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:38:12 +0000

Hi there. Noob here. So, do you need layers? or no? At what point do you ad a layer? do you just open the image and then ad the layer then proceed?

I am not a noob per-se, however, I only use plug ins and could NEVER figure out PS as a stand alone. I just use its friends – NIK and ONONE and TOPAZ. lol

Can you let me know so that I will save myself the hairpulling? And wanting to jump off a bridge into a burning lake of fire.

Now, I can save all that dough and buy more software and not have to buy a tilt-shift! wooo hoooo. Lucas Arts Pro, here I come.

thanks ya’ll!!!