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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 free texture - Grunge Sky

Hello,

There is a grunge sky texture available on my Deviant Art account. You can download it for free and use it in your creative work!




Download here: Grunge Sky


I have applied this texture on some of my images


one tree hill

other

time will tell

All three times I first used the texture in MULTIPLY blend mode in photoshop to make the sky more interesting. In the case of the first image I made a copy of the texture layer and applied OVERLAY blend mode which made the effect more crisp and added contrast.

Hope you find the texture useful and if you have any questions, please use the comment section.

Have a nice day! 

Comments

  1. Anonymous07:34

    Fantastic texture. I ill use it in future if alright with you. I have some good one also.

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  2. delitfulimage07:36

    Fantastic texture!! I have some good ones also!

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