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Tilt-shift gives a photo a band of sharp focus while everything beyond that band blurs smoothly away — the look of a tilt-shift lens, and the trick behind the “fake miniature” effect that makes real cities and landscapes resemble tiny scale models. Our brains read a narrow plane of focus as something seen close-up, so a full-size scene suddenly looks like a tabletop diorama. This tool recreates that effect entirely in your browser. You set where the sharp band sits (Focus center), how wide the fully-sharp zone is (Focus size), whether the band runs horizontally or vertically (Orientation), and how strong the blur grows toward the edges (Blur strength). Inside the band the image is left completely untouched — pixel-for-pixel identical to the original — and from the band's edges outward the blur ramps up gradually to its maximum at the frame edge, so there is no hard seam between sharp and blurred. The blur itself is a fast three-pass box blur that closely approximates a Gaussian, giving a soft, natural falloff. Everything runs locally on the HTML canvas: your image is never uploaded, the alpha channel is preserved so transparency stays intact, and there's no sign-up and no watermark.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the tilt-shift or “miniature” effect?
Tilt-shift keeps a narrow strip of the photo in sharp focus and blurs everything else, with the blur getting stronger the farther it is from that strip. Because a very shallow depth of field is something we normally see only in close-up macro shots, applying it to a wide scene tricks the eye into reading the scene as miniature — cars, buildings, and people start to look like toy models. The same technique is also a simple way to isolate one subject and push the rest of the frame out of the way.
How do the Focus center, Focus size, and Orientation controls work?
Orientation chooses the direction of the sharp band: Horizontal keeps a left-to-right strip in focus and blurs upward and downward from it, while Vertical keeps a top-to-bottom strip in focus and blurs to the left and right. Focus center positions that strip along the image — 0% is one edge, 50% the middle, 100% the far edge. Focus size sets how wide the fully-sharp zone is as a percentage of the image, so a small value gives a thin band of focus and a large value keeps most of the frame sharp.
Is the in-focus band really untouched, and can I turn the blur off?
Yes. Inside the focus band the blur radius is zero, so those pixels are copied through byte-for-byte — the sharp zone is identical to your original, with no softening at all. Setting Blur strength to 0 leaves the entire photo completely unchanged. Widening Focus size also shrinks the blurred area, and at 100% with the band centred the whole frame stays sharp (an off-centre band at 100% still blurs the far side, because a full-width band sitting against an edge only covers half the image). From the band's edges outward the blur radius rises gradually to its maximum at the frame edge, so the transition is always smooth rather than an abrupt line.
Is my image uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole effect runs in your browser on the HTML canvas — your photo never leaves your device, nothing is sent to a server, and there's no sign-up and no watermark. The blur is fully deterministic, so the same image and settings always produce the identical result, the alpha channel is left intact so transparency is preserved, and the output can be downloaded as a PNG.