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Discover the incredible capabilities of Photoshop for photo editing. In this article, we'll introduce you to an amazing feature of Photoshop: transforming photos from day to night with just a few simple steps. Let's see how to turn your daytime photos into nighttime ones in Photoshop on your computer.
How to Turn Photos from Day to Night in Photoshop
Step 1: Before starting your product design, create a new file by selecting File > New from the toolbar or using the shortcut Ctrl + N.
Step 2: After creating a new file, prepare a daytime photo to insert into Photoshop by selecting File > Place Embedded from the toolbar.
Then select the prepared photo to insert it as shown below.
Step 3: Now, use the Quick Selections Tool to cut out the morning sky. Select the area of the sky you want to change to night as shown in the instructional image below.
The sky area is now surrounded by a dotted line. Once you've outlined the sky area you want to turn into night, add a Layer Mask by selecting the Layer containing the image > clicking on Layer Mask as shown in the image below.
Step 4: After creating a Layer Mask, the selected sky area will disappear. If at that point the buildings disappear instead of the sky, use the Ctrl + I shortcut to invert this mask layer.
Step 5: Now let's insert the nighttime sky image into Photoshop. The steps are similar to the previous one. First, select File > Place Embedded > choose the nighttime sky image > Then use the mouse pointer to drag and drop the nighttime sky image layer below the first inserted image layer. Check the layer positions as shown in the image below.
Now adjust the position of the sky layer to make it look natural in our photo.
Step 6: Although the sky has been transformed into night, the remaining objects still retain their daytime colors. So in this step, you'll change the color of the remaining objects in the image to night by selecting the daytime image layer > then in the Adjustment Layers panel, choose Color Lookup.
In the Properties panel, select Moonlight from the 3DLUT File section to turn the daytime objects into nighttime ones.
Step 7: After the transformation, not only the daytime objects but also the nighttime sky becomes darker when covered by the Moonlight layer. So to maintain the original color of the nighttime sky, click on the square icon with an arrow in the Properties panel (make sure you have selected the Color Lookup layer).
The photo will then look like this.
Step 8: Now you've basically transformed the photo from day to night. However, in my photo, there are some street lights that I want to illuminate to make the scene more lively. I use a Soft Brush, small brush size to paint the lights of the street lamps.
Step 9: To make the lights look more realistic, create light rays emanating from the light bulbs using the Polygonal Lasso tool and draw a shape like the one below.
Next, use the Gradient Tool to colorize the light. Click on the color bar and select a color similar to the light color, then drag the mouse cursor down from the top at the position where you just drew the shape. And here is the result.
To make the light look more realistic, select Filter > Blur > Motion Blur from the toolbar to blur the light.
Now the Motion Blur dialog box will appear. Set the parameters as shown below and click OK for the best effect.
Step 10: Next, create light reflections on the road surface in the photo. Draw an ellipse shape on the road surface and fill the shape with a light yellow color as shown in the example below.
Then blur the ellipse shape using Blur with the same steps as before and set the parameters as follows, then click OK.
After completing the above step, you'll get something like this.
Finally, create light rays and reflections on the road surface next to the lamp post using the same steps as above to finish your masterpiece.
Congratulations on completing all the steps above. That's how I've guided you on how to turn a photo from day to night in Photoshop. I hope with the instructions above, you can easily turn your photos from day to night as you wish. Thank you for reading the article and don't forget to share if you find it helpful.
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