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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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Texture Bundle & Gradients Collection - update

Hello,
some of you might know that I also have a texture shop over at Creative Market.com.
You'll find my shop here:

Dyrk's Texture Pit
Recently I put together a set of texture packages and gradients at a considerably reduced price.
You can save 50%!!!


These are the files contained in this bundle:


Please take a look here for more information:

 Big Texture and Gradients Bundle

Examples
I used one of the sky backgrounds on this snowy Alps photo - easy to apply to dull blue skies....





Processed with some of the textured from the Soft Grunge package.





Processing on this image was quite simple. Please take a look at the screenshot of the photoshop layers:


I first processed the image in Lightroom and added two textures to achieve a more rustic look.  I used the Multiply blend mode with both textures until I was satisfied with the resulting textures on the image. I only adjusted the brightness and contrast a bit until I thought it perfect and that is all.

Thanks for your attention and if you have any questions, please ask in the comments!!

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