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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 Texture Pack : Vintage Film and Photography II

Hi everybody,

I've just finished and completed a new pack of textures, that were a long time in the making

It is the second part of my Vintage Film and Photography collection

Vintage Film and Photography II

Preview Textures



This time you get 30 handmade textures and overlays reminiscent of old vintage glass negatives / tin types and emulsion plates. Once again, I hope you will find, that I caught the essence of this quite well. 

The textures and available on my site here:


30 textures are 18,90 € (+ 7% VAT within the EU)


You can purchase them for US$ 23,90 also in my Creative Market store here:



How do images look like when processed with these textures?

Have a look:

Bare Trees


Or turning day into night with the help of two textures in this image: 

Violet Night Trees


I processed this with these two textures:

accumulated dirt

Violet Nebula

1 layer Violet Nebula 100% Multiply
2 layer Accumulated Dirt 77% Overlay
3 layer Curves adjustment +light and a bit more contrast



Thanks very much!



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