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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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Image Usage: Book Covers II

 Some of my images that were used as book cover


It is always wonderful to see one's work used creatively. In my case it is always exciting to see how designers used my work for their clients. Apart from the occasional ad or cd-/ music cover most of the time my images are used for book cover illustrations. 

I must admit that I don't create most of my images with any kind of later usage in mind. There are exceptions to the rule, but for me that would be often to limiting while creating and editing an image.

I selected some recent images that were used as covers and had not been changed, e.g. used for composite designs that made it almost impossible to identify my original work.

Here we go....

1.Petra Tessendorf -  Küstendämmerung

As you can see there hasn't been any change except for the crop. The image has been chosen by the author herself 


2.  Richard Russo

I took this image on a beach in France, Normandy at a summer evening. I was a very quiet evening with the tide low and almost no wind. French publishers love images with noticeable textures




3. Fabienne Jacob

I was hurrying from one gate to another to catch a connecting flight when I shot this walking on a conveyor belt in some airport, that I don't remember now. Nothing was planned and here we are....


4. Tina Schmid

The original image was taken on a road trip through the Alps early morning in Switzerland. They changed the mountains though, but otherwise kept the overall atmosphere.



5. Andrés Neumann

This is actually no photography, but an easy illustration I created in photoshop. I used one of my textures to create this  yellow hill and rendered a tree in Photoshop, one with leaves and the same without any foliage. I used some leave brushes to makes this wind blown effect and added a sky texture. 



6. Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

This is a forest path close to where I live. I took this on a misty morning and added the running person in post. 


7. Ian Rankin

This is actually a tunnel that was created as avalanche protection. I liked the light coming through the several openings on the left side. I went along a very steep mountainside close to the road leading to the Swiss - Italian border. 


Hopw you found this interesting.

Thanks for your attention.

Dirk


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