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How To Create Minimalistic Landscapes Using Blur Filters in Photoshop

 For at least 10 - 15 years I love creating abstract minimalistic landscapes such as beach and forest scenes in my post processing of photos using a range of Photoshop's blur filters.  Here's one of my latest images that features this (and other) techniques: The original photo was taken almost 15 years ago with a 7 megapixel Canon Camera, but I wanted to challenge myself and try to make more interesting image out of it.  Start I came across this image while browsing through my photo archive and kind of liked the scene with the woman enjoying standing in or close to the surf. Editing Steps 1. I expanded the image from its 4:3 ratio to a square format making the added part transparent. Then I selected the blue sky and erased it. As I knew I wanted to create an abstract image I searched for a cloudy sky and found a suitable photo in my library, that would make a more interesting sky than a bland blue one.   I positioned this sky a layer under the beach photo and go...

Updated: Free Texture Wednesday IV

Wednesday again and this means another free texture. This one I made this morning using one that I didn't like any longer. It came out quite colourful, but see for yourself:




Rainbow Puddle



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and I used it on this picture:




I reckon it is not an easy to use texture, but I think it looks cool on the picture I've chosen.

Have fun!

Check out my build-your-own-texture-pack

Previous Free Texture Wednesdays:
Free Texture Wednesday 3

Free Texture Wednesday 2

Free Texture Wednesday 1


On Friday there will be a new tutorial.

See you.



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