Tutorial 1: Faking Miniature Photographs with Photoshop

The first tutorial taught us how to fake miniature photographs with Photoshop. First I needed a starting image, mine was a photograph of the Big Ben:

After picking a photograph I followed 4 easy steps to get my final product:

1. Masking
2. Applying Gradient to the Mask
3. Applying the Blur Filter
4. Finish Up

After completing all the steps my final product was this: