Fun with Photoshop

I stumbled across this tutorial through Pinterest this evening. It teaches you how to create a fake miniature model look from a scene in a photograph. I knew just the photo I wanted to try it on.

I took this photo looking down at our hotel from our gondola ride while in Canada...

And using the tutorial above I created this fun image...

(Make sure you click on each image to see the full-size one.)

Pretty cool, huh? :)

The only thing I did different from the tutorial was at the end of step 2, I selected the inverse (Shift+Ctrl+I) before doing the Lens Blur. I don't know if I was messing up or reading the directions wrong but without selecting the inverse, I was blurring the wrong area. If you give it a try let me know what worked for you.

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