Abstract Feel Using the Motion Blur Filter

This image of bamboo shoots uses the Photoshop Motion Blur filter to get the interesting background. The basic idea came from a recent tutorial called “Creating an Abstract Landscape” by Curt Fleenor Photography. (A similar result was created in my blog called “Trying Out the Minimalist Look?” that uses a slightly different approach.) In this case, a gradient map, using an olive to mauve colored gradient, was added on top to give the interesting background colors instead of the really bright yellow and green from the original shot. The bamboo trees were selected with a layer mask just as the tutorial describes. A sun flare was painted on a layer using Obsidian Dawn’s light-beams burst 5 brush. The filter does give a nice abstract background. Anyway, it was just fun to do something a little creative…..Digital Lady Syd