The tilt-shift effect is only applied to the text. So yeah, I cheated a little by adding a background image that is already tilt-shifted. ;-)
Re:Tilt-Shift Using CSS
by franksalim on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @06:22PM
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That's what I expected, too. It could be possible in the future with CSS shaders or filters.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css-shaders.html
I understand that that may have been a stupid thing to think, but I still feel a bit disappointed.
Still cool though.