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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...

A new Texture Pack : MIXED SPECIALTIES & Discount!

Hello,
I am glad to finally be able to present you a new quite interesting pack of textures. Some of these I have used on various pictures over the last few months. They cover a wide range from subtle grunge to grunge and grit & grain as well as light leak elements.
Anyway I hope they help you create unique works of art!

Mixed Specialties

These 25 textures/overlays you can get for 17.90 € / app. 25 US $ please follow the Link:



To celebrate the release of these pack I am giving a 25% discount on ALL texture packs including to new one for the time being!! You only need to  type the coupon code

MAY2014 

at the check out!


More on the work with these textures in the course of this week!

Thanks,
Dirk

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