I found a link to this over at Terranuts

Pretty interesting..Looks like fun..Not sure how practical it is...But...hey, you never know..

http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/

Thanks for the link Bruce. I see you didn't mention the FG clip on the home page. (scroll down) http://recedinghairline.co.uk/

This is one weird approach to postwork!   I hadn't thought of taking what is a photo and making it in some ways "less that it was" to start with.  Maybe "wired" is better than weird...ho ho.     Very, very interesting.        TomDart.

I had seen this before but never tried it, so this seems like the perfect opportunity, and a found a great photo for it, I think. Here is the AFTER.

And here is the before. I disagreed with his curves suggestion, it blew out my image too much. I used Levels instead, and more sparingly.

Excellent !!!!!!!

Thanks Bruce. I hope we can get some other people to give this a try, it is pretty neat (i think). Here's another. The after.

...and here is the before.

One last one.

...and the source photo.

Hi guys!

Unreall how can trick my eyes, I love it. I did some on my pictures, so tricky!  Great fun for a weekend. ( I don't have cs2 but go around it)

Kort please keep post some,.... so cool!

seeyus Tunde

I don't think you need CS 1 or 2 for this, you can modify it to work in older versions.

Are you all going to let me be the only one to post some attempts at this?!? ;o]

Cool tutorial... I don't have any really decent shots to do this with, but I found one that was passable. I like this effect.

Hey, nice to see someone else play. ;] It is amazing how it really looks like a scale model. Okay, I love these, one more from me. (West Palm Beach)

Oops, I forgot to post the original from that one. Here it is. I'm doing this because I put 3 of these images in my gallery today. ;']

Nice tutorial - I was convinced I was looking at models looking at Korts pics before I went to the link. Very effective indeed :)

After some forth and back with TwoPynts I came up with a solution, that is based on the above tutorial, but adds some steps in order to provide more optical accuracy, by preventing items, that shouldn't be affected by the blur to get blurred. The "How to" is pretty straight forward. In addition to the steps in the tutorial create two additional layer. Leave one untouched - and apply the blur effect to the second, just in reverse. Now follow through with the tutorial. As you see in my examples 2nd image - the effect is already there - but it has  the problem, that the top of the Capitol and some of the tree tops to the left and right of it are effected by the blur. To be optically accurate however - they shouldn't. That where the copy of the original layer comes into play. Moved over the already blurred layer it will cover the entire image area. Two ways to to handle the next step. Cutting out - or the use of the eraser. While the latter is faster - the former is more accurate. Start to the left and work your way to the right and cut out the area that requires to be sharp and crisp. Once done, select "Inverse" in the selection menu and hit delete. If cutlines are visible, use the blur tool, to smooth them out - and that should be it. Now why the blurred inverse layer? Thats a tool for "just in case". If there are elements, that are unblurred but should be blurred - you can used that layer to achieve it - with the same steps as described in the previous layer.

Nicely done...you came up with a solution to the slight blurring that takes place even before you reach the tip of the Capitol. Great work...now I need to find some new images to work from. Some other thoughts, if you want to avoid the problem illustrated above, the focal area should be in a rather uniform area of the image with no tall buildings. That can be a little boring though. Secondly, if the scene has too much detail, it is hard to make a convincing fake model. See my two attempts. I will probably crop in on these to give it a bit more of a "model" look.