Turn Day into Night in Photoshop

Turn day into night! Use the power of Adjustment Layers and Blending Options to turn a bright daytime image, into a semi-realistic nighttime image. While these settings may not give you 100% perfect results, you can use the same techniques on your images with a bit of tweaking.

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Matthias Void Manson

nice try but…. meh…
Chris Lynam

Looks pretty amateur/lame to be honest
Mäcces McFly

The sunshine is still there.
Cristopher Atal Lagos

cool!
Anders Enger Jensen

Love all your other work, but this looks a bit like the oldest trick in the movies: extreme ND-filtering in daylight to make it appear as night (like Indiana Jones movies for instance), but hey, keep up the good work
Gino Paris

nice work
Jonnel Mamauag

love this tut …
Mau Tastic

the sky is still blue silly goose
Ravin X-Fighter

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Nick Hjorth Lauritzen

Normally I really like your work Howard, but this is not your finest hour, the light is still too bright and the sky too blue, give it another go man
Pam Wolfe

I enjoyed it very much!
Christa Meyer

So great…THANKS!
Prasad Patnaik

Great Tutorial. Thanks
Simon Stahl

Howard, I think you should use images with soft light, like an overcast scene. The harsh sunlight makes it easy to see that it’s just an underexposed day
Mark Le Grand

Only one word: Amazing! Very good work!!
Sanjay Mistry

Hi Howard, whilst you create amazing tutorials… many that help us all around the world!
I often see comments that are unfair, those who think they can better your tutorials perhaps should open their own tutorial channel!
You’re a credit and an invaluable asset to many people… Please continue your amazing work…
This message is on behalf of your followers who REALLY VALUE your work.
Rick E Koen

Bravo, Howard! B|
Wynn Anne Sibbald

It’s like those 1950′s movies where they put on the “night lens.” In real night shots those shadows should not be so intense.
Valdis Olšteins

From physics point of view, at night, the colors doesn’t show because there is not enough light to reflect, but the light produced by moon takes the advantage of “Blue” color atoms, which is the first color to be scattered, so next time maybe try add a little bit of dark blue in the scene, for a little bit more realistic view. You can clearly see the dark blue sky, which pops out quite much, because the scene doesn’t graduate to unsaturated blue as well. Otherwise, good tutorial. =)
Borislav Parnarev

I realy liked it, thank you for the great tutorial
Patrick Zito

just watched that one earlier. great work
uhanepono1

What a lot of fun.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Cuesta-Sánchez/100001609275336 Carlos Cuesta Sánchez

I know the place on the pic! http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo_de_San_Francisco

Category: Photo Effects, Photoshop, Tutorials
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