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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...

SPRING PROMISE Texture Pack Released & Spring Discount

Hi,
after quite some while I am glad to announce the release of a new pack of textures.

All of them I created over the past weeks or even months. As always there is a wide variety of unique textures from soft to grungy and from neutral to colourful.
Please click on the picture to see a larger version or go directly to the gallery on my website:


SPRING PROMISE PACK



Spring Promise Pack



You get 30 unique texture for only 26,90 € (+ % VAT within the EU) / that's app. 30 US $.


To celebrate the release of the pack you can get a 10% discount using the Coupon code

SPRING15


at the Check Out and what really cool is , the code also works with other packs ;-))

The discount ends on March 15, 2015



I used three textures from the new pack in this creation
Remains
   


More on the work with these new textures and a making-of later...

Thanks very much!

Dirk

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