Change day to night in Camera Raw, lighting photos in Photoshop.

[ad_1]

In this Photoshop tutorial, Colin Smith shows you how to take a photo of day time and turn it into a night scene including street lights and window lights.

This tutorial is easy and fun. Watch the video and then use the written steps for reference.

I am showing you the steps here, because this is a hands on style of edit, you should really watch the video above first.

Begin with this photo that I grabbed from Adobe Stock.

1.

Choose Filter>Camera Raw Filter (If you are on CS6, right click in bridge and open in Camera Raw)

Click on the Radial filter from the toolbar

2.

Drag to create a circle with the Radial tool

3.

At the bottom of the adjustment panel, choose outside, so the adjustment works outside the oval.

Lower exposure to darken and move color temperature to the left to make the color cooler (blue) so it looks like nighttime.

4.

Choose the radial tool again (click new, from the top of the adjustment panel to add a new adjustment)

Under effect at the bottom of the panel Change to inside.

Turn up the exposure so you are making it lighter.

Also change temperature to more yellow.

Drag out to create a pool of light.

5.

With the same settings, drag out another pool of light.

6.

Keep adding ovals to look like pools of light that would be under street lights and windows.

7.

Using the same method, start to add some light up the walls on the buildings. Don’t be afraid to change the sliders to make the brightness and color look the way you want.