524 Masking a Tilt-Shift landscape in Photoshop

Hey, gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week I'm gonna show you how to mask…a tilt-shift landscape inside Photoshop, and so we're gonna…start off with this 13th Century ruin.…It's known as the Hore Abbey, H-O-R-E, by the way,…outside the Rock of Cashel in Ireland, and we're going to…miniaturize it using a tilt-shift effect, but we're also…gonna make sure everything looks exactly right,…so that the ruins are in nice, sharp focus,…using a filter mask.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…

All right, here's that final tilt-shift effect,…just so you have a chance to see it on screen, and I think…it's pretty obvious that just about everything,…except the castle, is outside the depth of field.…All right, I'll go ahead and switch over to…the original photograph, which does have some softness…in the background up here at the top…of the image, and so, we ultimately have…a limited depth of field, but it's not nearly…as pronounced as the final effect.…All right, now I you're working in an older version…