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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...

New Clouds & Sky textures added + reduced prices

Hi,
I added a couple of abstract sky-scapes and cloud and sky inspired textures to my



Examples

To illustrate the effect you can achieve with these kind of overlays/textures I added some recent works where I used them to make more out of the skie's negative space.
Move over the pictures to see the before and after effect!

Migration
   
On top of La Palma
   
Ash Mountains
   
     
     
To learn more on how to apply skies to your landscape shots I'd like to suggest reading my blog posts



New Price Structure

Good news - essentially every textures pack is much cheaper than before....
the price of one texture within a pack is down to app. 1 US$ as opposed to 1€ before!!

Have a nice week!
Dirk
      

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