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Hello fellow photo editors! Today we’re going to learn how to make everything in your picture look like it’s teeny-tiny by simulating the extremely short focal plane that macro photography creates. It’s fake tilt-shift photography.

Tilt-shift is actually kind of a misnomer for this, however, as tilt-shift lenses don’t quite get this same kind of effect. Thanks wikipedia!

This is just a fun, quirky edit and works great for outdoor sporting events, parking lots, city-scapes and countrysides alike. Miniature cows? Hilarious… So let’s get down to it, shall we?

1. Load the original image and press “Q” for quickmask mode.