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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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New Textures in the Pack & a Wednesday Freebie!

Hi, I have just added 10 new textures to the Pick your own Pack. Most of them are kind of winter inspired, so there are a lot of blue tones to see.
Of course, they are not only suitable for snowy & wintry sceneries, but also work quite well with other subjects ;-)

These are the new textures:


10 Winter Textures
Build Your Own Texture Pack
The new textures are at the end of the gallery.



Examples

I already used them in some of my last pictures, here are some examples:

Lake Thun with snow capped Eiger - Mönch - Jungfrau
In this I used Winter Ice Melt & Metal and Stone from the Pack.
As you can see, there was a lot of clone stamping and manipulation  involved.
The original picture was already very bluish, because of the hard midday sun and the deep blue sky. The first texture gave the foreground a deeper more sea like blue tone. The two layers of Winter Ice Melt helped to light up the middle and the sky as well as it textured the sky.
The sky got more of the actual texture, because of the layer mask I used.

I didn't like the blues after the addition of the textures so I tweaked the tone with hepl of a colour layer.






Pomgranates and Snow Day

I used the Dark Emerald  and Winter Cloud textures in these two pictures:

Pomgranates


Snow Day



Free Texture

Now the promised freebie:

This is a texture that didn't make it to the pack, because it isn't big enough to be sold.

Please click on the texture to download!!!


Curaçao
Aus Free texture




Next post will deal with negative space and texturizing, so stay tuned!!!

Thanks & have fun with the texture!
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