How to use PS to convert photos taken during the day into Night pictures

Many people do not know that many night movie lenses are actually taken at noon when the sun shines, with some professional camera settings and powerful post-processing, the film studio can be taken into the lens of the day at any time.

This tutorial will teach you how to apply filters and adjust layers to convert photos taken during the day into night images.

Original:

When the original artwork has the following characteristics, the effect is better:

1. Image not overexposed

2. There is a clear dividing line between the sky and the foreground.

3. A light source that comes straight up

I use the image you can download here: Blue-sky-photos

Step 1

Add a hue/saturation adjustment layer.

Click the small hand icon with the left and right arrows, and then click in the Blue Sky area of the image.

Adjust the brightness to-50 to darken the sky.

Step 2

Add a brightness/contrast adjustment layer.

Sets the brightness to-50 to darken the entire image.

Step 3

Film studios generally use color lookup table to achieve a variety of rendering effects. A color lookup table is an index that can read your image and then replaces your original color with a new set of colors. Photoshop may not be a video editing software, but it also includes some useful color lookup features.

Add a color lookup adjustment layer.

In the "3DLUT file" drop-down menu, select "Nightfromday.cube". This color lookup table can convert daylight into night.

Set the color lookup adjustment layer opacity to 70% on the layers panel.

Step 4

Add a "curve" adjustment layer, set two anchor points as shown in the figure, which will further convert the entire image into a night image and increase the contrast of the image.

Step5

Our image is now largely complete, and now we can add some special effects to make it look more realistic.

Creates a new blank layer and fills it with black.

Click Filter > Noise > Add Noise, and the parameters are set as follows:

Step 6

Click Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur to set the radius to 0.25 pixels.

Step 7

Hide the "noise layer" on the Layers panel, click the Background layer, and click and drag in the sky with the Quick selection tool to select the sky. ALT + left mouse button to delete the extra parts of the selection.

Return to the noise layer, display the layer image, and add a layer mask to make the noise appear only in the Sky section.

In the layers panel, set the "noise layer" blending mode to "color filter".

Step 8

Add a Level adjustment layer and click the Create clipping mask icon to make the effect apply only to the noise layer.

The parameters are set as follows, and this step can add some stars to the sky.

Final effect:

This method can be applied to different images, but you have to use different adjustment layers to make the effect more realistic.

How, this effect is not very simple ah, a lot of practice, you will continue to progress.

Classification:

• ps Picture processing