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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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 New Set of 40 White - Grey Neutral Grunge Textures


If you want to add some interest and textures to your photos this is the texture pack for you. Add these without overly influencing your image's colours (at least not too much ;-) !










These are available on my website for 17,90 € --> HERE


Here are some before/ after images of works where I used some of them.

Click on the image to see the difference:






Some tips for the use of these textures. 

Using these textures the usual way - meaning dragging the texture above your photo/ image (e..g. in Photoshop, Affinity Photo...) and applying a blend mode such as Multiply / Overlay or Soft Light should guarantee a decent result. 

Combine several textures on different layers to get an more intense texture effect. 
Vary the blend modes, e.g. combine Multiply on one texture with Overlay using a different texture. 

You might have to make some adjustment to colours, contrast and light.

As mentioned above they are designed to have a rather low impact on the colours of your designs. They also work great as neutral backgrounds. You can tint them by applying a Hue/Saturation layer and checking the "colorize" box.


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