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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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the wonderful month of May is here again and its about time to celebrate this with another discount on my textures.

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I used two of these textures in this picture:

   



I used JEANS at 66% overlay, but also applying a mask and blurring the interior of the texture, ti keep the reds of the foreground more lively I also masked parts of the texture.

The other texture used was FORTRESS which added a subtle stone texture to the image. (40% Multiply)

Have a look at the layers:



Thanks and have a great time!
Dirk
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