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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...
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Before & After Mouseover

Hi,

I finally figured out how to do these cool mouseovers in Blogger, that show you these wonderful before & afters.
So I thought I choose a picture, that has been thoroughly altered and processed by me.
I took it at the end of a short cruise through a very stormy and angry Atlantic on the island of Porto Santo. This island is in the neighborhood of Madeira, Portugal.

Please let me get away with not explaining in detail how I did it!.

Here's the picture (actually it's an after and before ;-)):

to the end



You can imagine it was quite some worrk, but in my opinion it was worth while. In the coming days there will be another free texture and a new tutorial as well ( I hope time permits!) Have a great weekend!

Please check out my  Build your own Texture Pack


Thank you!
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  1. Cynthia Merzer15:06

    So how do you do the before/after effect? Would really like to know!

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