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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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Gentle Snowfall Overlay Freebie & how to apply it - Updated Dec 2024

I re-edited this post and added new links to download the texture:

Last post before Xmas,

over here we had our first taste of snow last week. At the moment it's back to normal, meaning rainy weather and roughly 5°C - 10°C...
I had the chance to take some wonderful winter landscapes in the sun and also shot while it was snowing quite heavily.
Still had no time to process some of these shots....

I thought it is about time for another freebie, so I made a snowfall overlay that is quite easy to use.

It looks like this:


Falling Snow Overlay


Download this overlays here for FREE! --> Free Download Snow Overlay




How do I use this? 
Overlays like the one above work best with blending modes like

- Screen
- Lighten
- Color Dodge

in programs such as Photoshop, Luminar Neo or Affinity.

In these modes the  color black doesn't have any effect and only the light/white parts show up in your picture. 
Just play around and see what works best with your picture.
Recently I used this overlay on my picture 4 colors of winter. Please move over the picture to see a before/after of this picture.



4 colors in winter









Hope you find this texture useful.


Dirk




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  1. Miriam17:35

    Great texture and great tips for applying, thank you!

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  2. Kathy Hardy18:18

    Beautiful! I have a "blogger" question, though? How do you do the before/after mouseover image? Is it a plugin for blogger? Thank you!!!

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