About Thomas Fitzgerald

Thomas is a professional fine art photographer and writer specialising in photography related instructional books as well as travel writing and street photography. 

New Video: How to do a Tilt Shift Miniature Effect in Lightroom With No Plug-ins

New Video: How to do a Tilt Shift Miniature Effect in Lightroom With No Plug-ins

In this video I show you how you can use the new lens blur feature in Lightroom Classic 13 to create a faux tilt shift miniature effect in Lightroom. This technique allows you to create the effect without any plug-ins or having to go to Photoshop.

I realise that this effect is something that was popular ages ago, and isn’t really in-vogue any more, but it’s cool that you can now do it directly in Lightroom without having to go to Photoshop. While the new lens blur feature isn’t perfect, it seems to work well for this most of the time.

Note that this technique will also work in Photoshop Camera Raw and Lightroom Desktop/Cloud/whateveritscalled!

Some examples of this technique in action…


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DXO Pure Raw Updated to 3.7 featuring improved Lightroom integration

DXO Pure Raw Updated to 3.7 featuring improved Lightroom integration

New Video: Photo Walk by Dublin's Grand Canal and Using Photography to Overcome Creative Block

New Video: Photo Walk by Dublin's Grand Canal and Using Photography to Overcome Creative Block