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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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Summer Feeling - softly processed summer impressions

Hi all,
looking out of the window I once again have to witness snow piling up on streets, paths and rooftops. That inspired me to take a look at some rather old shots I took with my point & shoot camaras 5 years ago in France.

I wanted to have light and soft color tones, so I decided to only use fine textures with neutral or light tones.

Most of the time I only used one or two textures from my latest Spring Release Pack

I think occasionally I tested a texture that will be inclued in the next pack.

So, enjoy summer....


Beach on a cloudy day
In almost all the pictures I blended the texture using "Soft Light", "Overlay" or even "Lighten" to get my soft texture look. Last step was always correcting contrast with the help of the levels tool.


Surf School

Trail to the beach

Waves

Dune


Have a nice week,

Dirk
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