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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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 Dirk Wüstenhagen aka Dyrk Wyst


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Hey, I’m Dirk! I’m a professional photographer and digital artist and photo manipulator, who has spent the majority of his career shooting landscapes, composing and manipulating images and creating imagery for book covers, wall art, developing design resources like textures, brushes and overlays and much more. 


After somehow abandoning my blog over the last years, I wanted start over with writing posts and creating inspiring and helpful content for other photographers and artists on this blog.


I try to post something new  each week, focussing on my work in general, on photo editing, the software I use and more.

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