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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...

Free Textures For Designers and Photographers

Hello,

I have a collection of free textures available on my DeviantArt account.

Find all of them here:



If you like you can download them and use them in your creative work. Would be nice if you link back to me, if possible.

I will be adding more in the following days/weeks.



Today I added this one:


Emerald Scratch
 -->  Emerald Scratch Download 




I used it in a recent image and it added all the grunge and mood I wanted to have! Please take a look at this 12s video and see how it worked out!







The second new free texture adds some grit & grain and a subtle red light leak to your images.

Grit & Grain 2
Grit and Grain 2 Download

Please use this texture in blend mode SCREEN or LIGHTEN in Photoshop.


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Thee effects are light desaturation and additional distortions. You can lessen the effect by reducing the opacity or using a soft brush on a layer mask where you need less of the texture.


Thanks.
If you have questions, please comment on this post!

Dirk

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