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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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How to add snow to photos & a free falling snow overlay

Hello
sooner than we think it will be Winter and if we are lucky there will be snow. Unfortunately this isn't always the case where I live. So I decided to make some snow overlays to add to images, what the weather could not always deliver. :-)
I usually use jpg- overlays to add the snow flakes, it is one of the easiest ways.

Please see the before / after effect by moving your mouse over the image:

Winter Idyll
   


Here is another one 






In both cases I chose two of my snow overlays and placed them above the original image. I then set the blend mode to "SCREEN" and already had a convincing layer of snow flakes. One can always adjust the intensity of the snow fall by either lowering the opacity, adding a layer mask and erase parts of the overlay with a soft brush or experiment with other blend modes such as LIGHTEN or COLOR DODGE.

I also experimented with snow brushes that I created myself, but found that it is much easier once you have realistic looking overlays. 

If you want to experiment with a snow overlay yourself you can download one for free from my Deviant Art profile -->  FALLING SNOW OVERLAY


If you want help me out you can purchase a whole package of overlays and a psd-file with additional possibilities to add snow from my Creative Market shop 



Thanks very much for reading.
Dirk

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