The technique of Tilt Shift is everywhere, and if you don”t know what is about, you are in the right place, tilt shift pictures are those kind of images who look like a miniature object or a small city.
In this article you can learn how to transform you normal pictures in tilt shift images, with an Internet tool called tiltshiftmaker for free. I started looking for information and tricks about this kind of effect, and yesterday I just find this great web site where you can create your own, and i wanted to share with you, you don’t need Photoshop or expensive lenses for your camera, you just up-load your photo and change some parameters to obtain what you want and that’s all, you can download your image with the effect and save it in your computer, no cost, no watermarks, nothing.

If you want to lean more about what is tilt shift effect

With only four steps

1. Fist of all, go to tiltshiftmaker.com

2. Second you just have to select the picture you want to shift, either from your computer or from and URL and upload it.

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3. Then you get the options for the effect, you test and try what you find better.

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4. And finally, once you are happy with the result you download the picture. That’s all.

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Even with the little number of options it has, you can obtain an good tilt shift effect in some minutes with this site and then save your photo.

I tried it and here are some examples:

My Tilt Shift Pictures

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The Tiltshiftmaker Group

Here is also a little collection of some of the best examples of the tilt shift effect made with tiltshiftmaker, from their flickrgroup

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Now is your turn to try the tilt shift maker, if you make something nice let me a link to you image I’d like to see what you obtain.

If you know another cool free tool on Internet to make great effects on photos  I’d be glad to know about it.

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18 Responses


  1. Kawsar Ali on 15 Jul 2009

    Pretty cool post. Gotta love tilt shift
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  2. nice tool thanks for share..
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  3. ruhani rabin on 15 Jul 2009

    Nice utility, just tried and it seems pretty cool.. thanks :D

  4. Luis Lopez on 15 Jul 2009

    @Kawsar Ali: Is true, this kind of effect is a little sticky, once you make one you want to make more.

    @Joyoge: Is a great tool to create tilt effect really simple

    @ruhani: You are welcome

  5. Louis Gubitosi on 15 Jul 2009

    wow, that’s so cool.. will be using this very soon!
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  6. Tilt Shift Effect – How To Make Your Own Effect With Tiltshiftmaker…

    Here you can learn how to transform you normal pictures in tilt shift photos or miniature images, with an Internet tool for free, plus some examples.

  7. Ivo Ivan on 16 Jul 2009

    I love tilt-shift photos. Looks like photos of plastic models.

  8. Luis Lopez on 16 Jul 2009

    @Louis: I’d like to see the results

    @Ivo: yes is a great technique, the first time I saw one i thought it was a model.

  9. FAQPAL on 16 Jul 2009

    Always wondered how to acheive this effect, thanks for the tutorial.
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    Very nice site!

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