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In the last week, I’ve seen posts on BoingBoing and my friend Nick Whitaker’s blog about the Tilt-Shift Maker website, which will manipulate photos you upload to make them look like they were taken with a perspective-control lens.  Which got me wondering whether you can do the same thing in Gimp, GNU’s free image manipulation software.  Of course you can, and the basic technique is really easy.  This great post by the Flickr user shygantic in the Tilt-shift Miniature Fakes group explains it all.

My first tilt-shift miniature made in Gimp:

The source photo was maybe not the ideal candidate because the field is too deep, but it’s a first try on the first photo I picked, which I think demonstrates how easy Gimp makes this.

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