Does this look remotely like a diorama effect?

After scaling I noticed that there was some weird pixelization (sp?) going on. Ignore that. Not sure how it happened. The point is that I want to know if the effect works or if I need to work on it more and if so, does anyone have any pointers?

Before:



After:

I know a tilt-shift effect that may look similar (see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... Tilt_shift )

Humm..not sure even ignoring the weird pixelation

the blurred area look to me too simmetrical (i.e. i would expect some difference in the blur between a car blurred because too close and one blurred because too far )and the transition too sharp (Well i can't see any transition but a sudden change)

I am not a big fan of the tilt shift effect, anyway i believe smoother transition ((maybe using a layermask...well to be exact will be needed a depth mask) will add more depth and make look more..natural the effect

The amount of focus needs to be dependent upon the relative distance of the objects in the image from the camera. For example, the person on the left is the same distance from the camera as the adjacent white car, yet the car is in focus. By the same token, the large sign is not so far from the camera as the tunnel itself, and thus should be more in focus.

Here is a crude attempt at blurring the objects based the perceived distance (I wish GIMP had a Bokeh blur plug-in):

Thanks PC. I'll look into the tilt-shift effect. See if I can get some pointers from that article too.

Thanks saulgoode. Good tips about the camera focus. Maybe higher up, where the sign is, is further away from the camera focus as well, because your crude attempt doesn't really look miniature either.

Here is an interesting tilt-shift tutorial.

Link

Thank you. I'm gonna try that tutorial. Got the focus blur plug-in mentioned there as well. See what it does.

http://www.registry.gimp.org/node/8236 < Windows plug-in

http://registry.gimp.org/node/1444 < Linux plug-in

I like that one better than your first one.

I just tried with the photo that earth2marsh from flickr used and I can get it right there. I think it's important to get an image that is zoomed out correctly. I'll look for one tomorrow.

The second is blurred way too much in my opinion. Also it has only a very very small focus area. Saul's pic looks better in these points.

I had written up a fairly detailed tutorial on tilt shift with the focal blur plugin:
http://www.silent9.com/blog/archives/15 ... -Gimp.html

hth.


The lens blur plugin supports this. It is referred to as "shine" and it can be tied to a predefined shape or a brush. The size of the bokeh depends on how out of focus the image is.

Here is an example on a picture of xmas lights I had, using a parameteric 5 sided brush:

-Rob A>

Rolf has done a couple of episodes of Meet The Gimp on fake tilt-shift using the focus blur plug-in:

Episode 095: Shrinking! (1)

Episode 097: Shrinking! (2)

Wow, thanks guys. I got lots more help then I could have hoped for.

I wish he would get moved in and settled in so he could get back to the immportant business of making tuts for US.

RobA, thanks for pointing that out. Just what I've been looking for for years (and failed to implement myself the time I tried). Since the GIMP wiki link on your website is presently dead, here is the link to the plug-in author's page: http://sudakyo.hp.infoseek.co.jp/gimp/fblur/focusblur_e.html

A very interesting tutorial on this can be found here.

http://gimp-tutorials.net/Creating-Dior ... p-tutorial

I ran this tutorial and got pretty nice results.

Here is your image with the same tutorial except i feathered by 100 instead of 400.

Thanks for the updated link!

-Rob A>