Tilt Shift Effect on Halo 3 Screenshots
Recently I have been doing some experimenting with ’tilt shift’ effects thru photoshop. With the right photo you can get some amazing effects. The basic goal is to take an image and make it appear is if it were a miniature model. Aerial views of large urban sprawls seem to work the best, so that got me thinking… I wonder how a Halo 3 screenshot would look.
Here’s my first few attempts. Nothing too amazing here, I know, but you can see the potential. I think to really pull off the effect there should be a gang of spartans in the screenshot. Scroll down to read a quick tutorial on how to duplicate this effect, then round up the hooligans you call friends, and try to make your own tilt shift halo pics.
Halo 3 Titl Shift ~ Click the pic for the Full Size Image
Halo 3 Titl Shift ~ Click the pic for the Full Size Image
Halo 3 Titl Shift ~ Click the pic for the Full Size Image
Halo 3 Titl Shift ~ Click the pic for the Full Size Image
If you want to create your own, just fire up that pirated version of photoshop. You will also have to get some sweet screenshots together.. duh!
1. Open up your screenshot, switch to ‘Quick Mask Mode’
2. Select the Gradient Tool and draw a vertical line thru the area you want to highlight*
You can see in ‘tutorial image 01′ that the line is only about 30% of the total height of the screenshot I’m working with. The rest of the image will become blurred out.
Tutorial Image 01 - Choosing Quick Mask mode
3. Now switch out of ‘Quick Mask’ mode by toggling it off
4. You should now see the ‘marching ants’ just like tutorial image 2
Tutorial Image 02 - The Marching Ants of the Quick Mask
5. Apply a Lens Blur (Filter-> Blur -> Lens Blur)
6. Invert your Quick Mask (Select -> Inverse)
7. Sharpen the Highlighted area (Filter -> Sharpen -> Sharpen)
8. Deselect the Mask (Control + H)
9. Adjust Saturation (Image -> Adjust -> Hue/Saturation) (just crank it up to about 30)
10. Adjust Contrast (Image -> Adjust -> Brightness/Contrast)
Steps 7, 9 and 10 are where you will make some tweaks to the tutorial. Play with the settings a bit and see what you can create. A lot of this will depend on the image you select, and whether it has a lot of bright sun, or if it’s darker.
Experiment with putting a lot of things in the frame, close ups, explosions or whatever. Find a place to upload (you guys must know how to do that by now, right?) and post links in the comments section. If I see any good ones, I’ll post them on the main page.
Very cool. i’ll try a couple. i usually use image shack for uploading stuff like this.
That’s pretty cool. But why a miniature model? To me it can look like a miniature model or a regular sized model.
Good point, Havok. I guess when I think of models, I think of miniatures. But, they could be actual size too.
When you think of models, you think of miniatures huh? That’s funny, because when models think of your cock, they think of miniatures too.
I just think it’s funny that you’re thinking of my cock.. why is that btw?
Cause all this hoopla over miniatures must mean you are trying to overcompensate for something lacking in your life
and the person that makes jokes about someone’s penis size on a random website.. what is he over overcompensating for?
Why are you scared to post your gamertag? I’m sure you must be someone we have played before?
Actually, I’m not. I just happened upon this website from HBO and I have a pet peeve about people who claim they are gods at something, yet there stats don’t tell the same story.
Why say that your opposition is terrible and sucks, because then it looks like you have no skill to beat someone that bad. In my opinion, if you build up your opponent’s skill, even if they are somewhat bad, it makes you look that much stronger. Think about it.
You are taking this website, along with a few other things, WAY too seriously. This is all a joke. Our stats do just what you said.. prove that we suck as much as the next guy. We’re just having fun with dummies over live.
Nothing winds people up like telling them that they suck, except maybe telling them that we rule. You just proved that yourself.
This site is only a couple weeks old and we’re still trying to decide exactly what it will become. If you believe even half of what you read here.. shutdown your pc. It will only end up betraying you more.
We like to drive around in the warthog and honk the horn.. so what?
Maybe you should turn it into a serious website with news and stuff and leave all the “we’re better, you’re not” stuff to other assholes that pollute the web. This site could be great, if you make the effort.
I think what you did here is amazing, really nice stuff. Ignore this fag who thinks he knows shit, he’s the one overcompensating. I find that 90% of people on XBL who talk trash, are really 15 year old pricks who still live with their mothers, and will for the next 20 years. Living on my own for the last year now, I realize just how stupid I used to sound on XBL, trying to sound tough to random people on the internet is just…well, lame.
Anyways, I’ll definately use this trick, I really like the effect it gave. I was skeptical at first about the outcome when I read the story at HBO, but now I’m a believer, great work!
Interesting. I tried it out on a few of my shots. Not a true depth-of-field, of course, but I think they turned out alright. Check them out here.
I like the grunt. Cool shots. I’ll have to link you your site on the next update.
Aside from the effect, that’s some really nice composition.
I did one so far, and I’ll be doing more, my screenshots didn’t upload last night though. They’re up now, so I’ll be updating this thread on my forum.
That shot with the marines is great. I’ll link you up too. Thanks guys
thank you, brother
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