If there’s anything cooler than kids’ toys, it’s photographs of kids’ toys. Everyone loved looking down on their LEGO city or hordes of Micro Machines and I remember laying down to photograph my creations with a disposable camera from participant’s eye view.
Now that I’m “too old” to play with toys (never true – check my desk drawers) I’ve resorted to using Adobe Photoshop to re-create that feeling by giving photographs of real objects a Tilt Shift effect to make the focus of the pictures look like miniatures, which I’ll demonstrate in this simple tutorial.


