Apply a miniature/tilt-shift effect to any photo — blurs top and bottom while keeping a sharp center band.
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Works best on aerial/cityscape shots — PNG, JPG, WebP
Need to apply a miniature/tilt-shift effect to any photo — blurs top and bottom while keeping a sharp center band quickly? Image Tilt-Shift handles it right in your browser with no uploads, no accounts, and no watermarks. It supports common image formats like JPEG, PNG, and WebP, and delivers results instantly using client-side processing. Your files stay on your device at all times.
Tilt-shift is a photographic technique using a special lens (or post-processing) to keep a narrow horizontal band sharp while blurring the rest. This mimics the limited depth-of-field typical of macro photography, making real-world scenes look like tiny scale models. It works especially well on aerial and overhead photos of cities, traffic, and landscapes.
Our brains associate shallow depth of field with close-up macro photography of small objects. When a full-scale scene is processed to have only a thin sharp strip, the brain interprets it as a miniature model photographed up close. Aerial shots work best because the overhead angle further reinforces the "looking down at a model" illusion.
This tool renders the original image onto a hidden canvas, then uses the Canvas 2D API with CSS filter: blur(Xpx) applied to a copy to produce the blurred version. It then composites the two layers: the blurred image is drawn first, then the sharp center band is masked over it using a clipping region. The result is baked into the output canvas and can be downloaded as a PNG.