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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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Making of Forest Walk - Applying textures and adding a glow effect - Update 2019

Hello,
today I want to share how I processed an image that turned out to be quite nice, but on a second  look felt not good regarding its composition.

Here is the result that I like, but somehow knew wouldn't work

Forest Walk


The Processing

I used one of my Lightroom presets to do the basic processing. I usually tweak this preset to adapt it to the image.

unprocessed Original




I decided to apply what is called the  "Orton-effect" to get a dreamy soft glow. You can find my tutorial on this technique here--> How to create the Orton Effect 
However I am going to introduce a variation on this technique, that works equally well. Instead of over exposing a copy of the original I set a copy of the image to 50% Screen, that brightened the image while still keeping the Orton glow. With an original size of 6000px x 4000px a gaussian Blur setting of 60 to 90px is necessary to achieve the effect. I settled at 75px. Please take a look at the Layers copy.


Orton effect - before/after  - please move over the image to see the difference

   

I liked the overall tones and chose to apply  only two textures to achieve a subtle canvas texture effect



The green texture added additional green hues and made the image darker. I decided to lighten the image by adding a lighter more neutral texture and achieved this with blend mode "overlay". 

Take a look at the textures WHITEWALLS  and FLUTTER on my site.


Though I liked the processing, I wasn't satisfied with the image as a whole. Yesterday I came up with two different crops. Thus making two images out of one.

1. the one with the path as leading line



and 2. the part on the left, where the light is breaking through



What do you think? Do you sometimes face similar problems with your photos?


You'll fin my textures here--> TEXTURE PACKS

Thanks for your attention!
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