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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 Pack of Vintage Paper Textures out! + making of + FREEBIE

Hello,

I just released a small pack of vintage paper textures and backgrounds that you can find here:


Price: 15 US $ / app. 13,90 €


15 Vintage Paper Textures

I scanned and photographed all kind of old letters, cardboards, books and other stuff to create them.
As you can see these are not merely the plain papers, but I combined them with other structures and textures...

Anyway, I hope you like them!


Example


Foggy Day

Please move with your mouse over the picture to get a Before/After impression.


I used three different textures from the pack to achieve the vintage look. Here is a screenshot of the layers in Photoshop:

Layers Foggy Day
    I didn't even need to make adjustments to the lights and contrast.


FREEBIE 

I made a lot of paper textures and I got a lot of variations one of them I'd like to give away before the weekend. You can download this texture from Picasa.

DOWNLOAD HERE



Aus Free textures

Of course, you can still find a great variety of textures on my homepage here:



Thanks very much and have a great weekend!
Dirk

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