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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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Painterly Images with Lightroom Presets and Textures


Hello,
over the past years I have posted many tutorials concentrating on the use of textures. I know, that I often mentioned that I process my images with the help of Adobe Lightroom before I load them into Photoshop to treat them further with textures. I finally have put together my first small set of Lightroom Presets that helps you creating impressionistic painterly images combining these presets with some of my textures.







You can get these in my CreativeMarket shop here: Impressions Lightroom Presets




Short Tutorial - Making of CANVAS DREAMS

I spent a week in the Normandy, France in May, where I took this shot of red poppies in the dunes with view of the beach. This photo seemed a perfect candidate to show you how to easily create a painterly picture with the help of one of the presets as well as the texture included in this set.


It wasn't a particularly bright day, rather cloudy and windy and the photo turned out as a bit dark.


Canvas Dreams RAW

I often process every picture individually without the help of presets, but I just applied several presets I saved rather randomly and found one that gave this pic a nice summer impression. I tweaked it a bit further and the resulting adjustments became my first Impressions preset. 

I exported the resulting image to Photoshop. Here's what I looked like:


Canvas Dreams LR preset


So, I already had much warmer pic with a bit more contrast clearer midtones - now I had to decide on a texture. I wanted to have a subtle canvas structure. I took one of the textures I hadn't included in my 20 Fine Art Canvas Textures . I added this texture to the preset set to give you the chance to try the effect out.


Canvas Dreams










My aim was to add this texture in a way, that it didn't alter  the preset's colours too much.

There are a few things to consider to achieve this:
- choose a texture that is rather neutral in tone
- combine blending options. the Luminosity layer added more texture to the background and brighter parts of the image but also made the dark parts paler. So I copied the layer and after some experimenting had a nice looking pic with a Linear Burn layer.

With the help of a Levels layer I made it a tad brighter and added a bit more contrast.


That was all. Hope you found this interesting.
Have a great weekend!
MerkenMerken
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