Tilt-shift miniature effect

This prompt blurs the top and bottom bands, boosts saturation and contrast slightly and sharpens the middle band so the scene looks like a tiny model. It works best on high-angle photos.

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Give this high-angle photo a tilt-shift miniature effect. Blur the top and bottom bands, boost saturation and contrast slightly, and sharpen the middle band so the scene looks like a tiny toy model.

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Use a photo taken from a high angle, such as a bridge or rooftop.

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What you will get

Your high-angle photo with blurred top and bottom bands, a sharp middle strip and slightly stronger colour and contrast, so the scene looks like a tiny model.

Why it works

Tilt-shift makes real scenes look like toy models by blurring the top and bottom bands, so the prompt asks for that with a sharp middle band. A small boost in saturation adds the toy feel. A high-angle photo, as the tip says, is essential.

Common mistake

The effect does not work on a ground-level photo.

Fix: Use a photo taken from high up, as the tip says. From eye level the blur just looks like a mistake.

Also watch for

The sharp band is in the wrong place. Name what should stay sharp, such as “the row of buses in the middle”, so the focus band sits on it.
Colours look radioactive. Ask for a small saturation boost only, enough to look like painted toys, not neon.

Try a variation: make a model railway look

Ask for a toy train set feel, with slightly glossy colours and tiny figures, for a photo of a railway station from above.

Still not right? Reply with this

Make the sharp band narrower and the top and bottom blur stronger, and boost the colours a little more so the cars and people look like toys.