Aussie Geek Podcast

I know there are a number of our listeners that are into photography so when I found this site I thought of you guys. But that said this is a really fun online web tool/application to play with. It is called TiltShift maker.

What the site does is manipulates an image so that iot looks like a phtograph of a minature scene. The results are very, very good. Plus it is a lot of fun.

The site allows you to both upload an image from your computer or use an online image. Both great options, so go and scour your flickr page for something cool to use. The site gives you some tips about what images to use. Generally ones that encompas a scene or a landscape as opposed to a single subject. Don’t worry if you don’t have anything because they give you some sample images to have a play with.

The process is dead simple and fun and the results are great.

Image Credit: arnet

The thing that I like is the fact that they are encouraging a community of users from the site to post their images to flickr and add them to the TiltShiftMaker group. The group look pretty active and there are a bunch of images to take a look at. I think that it is a great that a community is spawning out of a web service that really just offers a tool to make cool images. The approach makes the tool more valuable and builds the brand and the motivation of the developers to make it better. Nice work.

While I am not sure that I have any images right now that would make a great TiltShift Image I am going to be actively on the lookout for an opportunity to get some images that I can run through the service. I will post them both on the flickr group and I might throw some on the forum.

Rather than take away from the community on flickr I would encourage people to post their images to the service inspired flickr group and drop a link here in the comments or on the AGP Forums to the image.

Great fun service and I am looking forward to creating some of these with my own work.