Video Tutorial - Fake Tilt Shift
I have made a video tutorial! For me this is tromendously exciting. For you, less so perhaps.
Anyway I would love it if you could have a look and let me know what you think, give me some constructive feedback (I know that I sound like a bell end so there’s no need to point that out) then that’d be super awesome.
I picked a nice easy technique to make a tutorial about to start with - faking tilt shift using Photoshop.
Video Tutorial - Fake Tilt Shift (Quicktime MOV - 1024×768 - 92mb)
Things I have noted that I need to work on in the future include:
- I don’t actually explain what Depth of Field is, I just sort of assume that people will know what I’m talking about - this is probably bad.
- When explaining what tilt shift is via the wonder of wikipedia, I click on a link that I’m looking at for the first time during the tutorial - it’s pretty obvious that that’s what I’m doing, I think, and I sort of pause and stumble a bit when I’m doing it. This also is probably bad.
- The cursor doesn’t show up very well in Photoshop when I’m trying to explain things by motioning with it - could probably do something about that.
- The sound clips nastily a few times - need to run a limiter and normalize!
August 19th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Nice to see you branching out into the world of Video Tutorials! Must say that I am a little dissapointed that there was no inline Flash Player (92mb isn’t small - hope you’ve got enough B/W for when you’re an industry leader!)
My only tip would be to reduce your screen resolution when recording - that will make everything a bit easier to see and read - otherwise it was excellent
August 19th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Cheers mate! Yes, I’ve got some experimenting to do with formats and sizes, for sure. I think I’m going to try doing the next one at 800×600 and will use some sort of Flash player.
You’ll be highly amused to hear, I’m sure, that at the moment I’m spending my time off learning ActionScript 3.0! I’m trying to develop a fancy image gallery that will show off my best 15-20 images, and I thought I’d have a bash at it myself in full OO AS3 glory. I will let you laugh at the code at some point
August 20th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Ah that’s cool, nothing like sharing the ActionScript Love. We are due to start porting Moshi over to AS3 in the coming months; looking forward to it - AS 2.0 has some real limitations when you start doing complicated stuff.
Let me know if I can help out with any AS 3 questions - will be a good chance for me to learn as well
November 20th, 2008 at 12:38 am
[...] The shot of Chris Kirkland has been edited using a fake tilt-shift technique. A video tutorial of how to create a fake tilt shift effect is available here. [...]