How to use PS to turn landscape into miniature landscape

We will simulate the unique visual effect of the shifting lens and restore the landscape to a miniature landscape. Shift-axis lens can help us control the focal plane of the lens, restrain convergence deformation and expand the depth of field. If we are good at expanding its uses, we can have more and more special creative effects, such as turning an ordinary town into a miniature landscape. However, if you are not a professional architect or landscape photographer and just want to play such special effects occasionally, buying a camera lens is really a failure. If your Photoshop version is above CS 2, you can try a unique lens blur filter and use post-processing to simulate the unique shallow depth of field effect of shift-axis photography. We can use this technology on any photo, but if you want to create a miniature landscape, you'd better choose a landscape photo of buildings, streets and people taken with a wide-angle lens like the one above. You need to shoot from a downward angle to achieve the most realistic effect. Lens blur filter is the most suitable tool to create shallow depth of field effect. You can directly use the Alpha channel as the depth mapping source to add blur effect to the picture. Although these nouns sound mysterious, the actual operation is not complicated, which can be realized by using the gradient tool. We will tell you how to do this, and at the same time, we will further enhance the toy feeling of photos through tone adjustment. If you are using Photoshop CS6, you can also try the latest fuzzy gallery function. The blur gallery provides three new blur filters, among which the tilt shift filter can obtain adjustment results similar to the tutorial without the help of Alpha channel. 1. Open this overhead photo found in Adobe Bridge in ACR, right-click and select "Open in Camera Raw" from the pop-up menu. Set the color temperature to 5400, exposure to -0. 15, recovery to 23, fill light to 5, black to 9, contrast to 30, sharpness to+15, and natural saturation of the base plane to +23. 2. Application of Sharpening Obviously, we don't want to sharpen the photo after blurring the simulation of the axis shift effect, so now is the best time to sharpen it. Double-click the zoom tool icon in the toolbar above, set the display scale to 100%, enter the details panel, set the sharpening number to 44, and set the radius to 1.4. 3. Set the gradient Click the Open Image button to enter Photoshop and select the gradient tool. Use the shortcut key d to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Click the gradient bar in the option bar above to open the gradient editor, and select the first preset "Foreground to Background Color Gradient". Next, set the gradient mode to symmetric gradient. 4. Quick Mask Use the shortcut key Q to enter the quick mask mode, and the quick mask icon at the bottom of the toolbar will be selected. In the quick mask mode, all the black content we draw will become a selection after exiting. Create a gradient line from the awning of the shop across the street to the red car parked on the side of the road. 5. The pink area of the brush tool represents the part that is not affected by the blur operation. We can draw other parts that don't need to be blurred with a black brush. Select the brush tool, enlarge the picture to the building part, set the foreground color to black, brush hardness to 0%, and opacity to 50%. 6. Drawing Selection Use the brush tool to add all the roofs of the opposite street to the selection range of the quick mask. When adjusting, you can use the shortcut key [,] to control the size of the brush. In addition, all the scenes that you think are equivalent to the distance between the building and the camera should be added to the quick mask. 7. Create an Alpha channel, click the shortcut key Q again, and launch the quick mask mode to get a selection area equivalent to the mask area just drawn. Execute the menu command "window >: channel" to open the channel panel, and click the "Save as Channel" icon at the bottom of the panel to get the channel named "Alpha 1". 8. Use the shortcut key Ctrl+D to deselect the copied layer, and then use the brush tool in the Alpha 1 channel to sort out all the parts that we may have overlooked just now. Click the RGB channel above to return to normal image mode. Select the background layer in the Layers panel, and then use the shortcut key Ctrl+J to copy it. 9. lens blur rename the new layer "axis shift blur", and then execute the menu command "filter >"; Fuzzy >; The lens is blurred. " In the pop-up shot blur window, first open the source drop-down menu of the top right depth map and set it to Alpha 1. Then set the blur focus below to 0. 10. Set the blur strength. Open the drop-down menu of aperture shape, set it to octagon, and then set the radius to 3. Use the shortcut key Ctrl ++ to enlarge the preview picture, so as to clearly observe the blurred picture behind, and set the number of noise to 2. 1 1. After the new quick mask is satisfied with the lens blur setting, click OK to execute the filter. Use the shortcut key Ctrl+J to copy the "Translation Axis Blur" layer and rename the new layer "Enhanced Blur". Use the shortcut key Q to enter the quick mask mode, and then use the black brush tool to include all the near and far scenes in the selection. 12, enhance the blur, use the shortcut key q to exit the quick mask mode, and then save the new selection as an Alpha channel. Use the shortcut key Ctrl+D to cancel the selection, and then execute "Filter >"; Fuzzy >; Lens blur command, set the depth map source to Alpha 2, set the blur focal length to 255 and the radius to 60. 13. Create a mask. Hold down the Ctrl key and click the left mouse button on the Alpha 2 channel in the Channels panel to load it as a selection. Make sure that the enhanced blur layer is selected, then hold down the Alt key and click the Add layer mask button below the Layers panel to associate the selection with the currently selected layer as a layer mask. 14. Enhance the color and keep the top selection. Use the shortcut key Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E to merge all layers into a new layer. Rename the layer to Merge, open the Blending Mode drop-down menu in the upper left corner of the layer panel, and select the overlay mode. 15, Layer Opacity Although we want to enhance the overall contrast and color saturation of the picture to create a miniature atmosphere, the impact of the overlay mode really exceeds our expectations. Setting the opacity slider in the upper right corner of the layer panel to 20% can solve this problem. Then, hold down the Alt key and click the New Layer button below the Layers panel. 16. Finally, adjust and set the mixing mode to soft light, then check the option of filling soft light neutral color below and click OK. Select the brush tool and set its opacity to 20%. Use a black brush to smear on the corners of the picture and the sky to darken it; Then brush the outer wall of the building with a white brush to make it bright.