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Day to Night

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June 17th, 2007

day to night

This tutorial will teach you how to turn a day photograph into a nightime photograph using Photoshop.

 

 

 

Step 1

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Begin by opening your image in Photoshop.

Step 2

 

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Now you need to turn your image to grey. Do this by going to image - adjustments - desaturate.

Step 3

 

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Next you need to turn your image to blue. Make it as blue as you like. Do this by going to image - adjustments - colour balance. Add in some cyan too!

Step 4

 

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Now copy the layer by draggin it down to the copy layer button.

Step 5

 

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Select your ‘background copy’ layer and change the blending mode from normal to multiply.

Step 6

 

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Now you can flatten the image by going to layer - flatten image. Erase some of the light using the healing tool.

Step 7

 

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You can set the layer ‘multiply’ opacity if you don’t like your result or you can copy that layer several times to make it even darker. And that’s it … day to night!

 

Tutorial courtesy of H-D-Stock


 

3 Responses to “Day to Night”

  1. Ken Walker Says:

    Nice tutorial. Easy to follow and just what I was looking for. Thanks!

  2. Admin Says:

    Simple yet effective!

  3. Kevin James Says:

    Simple technique but does the job quite well!

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