How to totally fake it....

[Sunburn]

Reading an aquaintance's blog yielded the following technique for faking "tilt-shift" photography in Photoshop. In a nutshell, making an oblique aerial photo look like it is a model. Some of the examples I've seen are amazing....

http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/

 

[doctorwayne]

Another example of virtual modelling, where everyone has room for a huge, but low-cost, layout. This could've really fooled people in the January "Is it real or a model" contest.

Wayne

 

[nachoman]

now tell me how to take a model photo and edit it to look real

kevin

 

[Sunburn]

Here are some more examples...

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1760