Changing Day into Night
There are many ways to turn a daytime picture into a night one, depending on the tutorial and strategies that you use. The common theme among them is to add a blue value to the photo and make it darker. Effects such as light in the windows, street lights, or the moon can be added.
Depending on the picture, a day to night transformation can be tricky. If a landscape photo has too many clouds in the sky or if is very obviously sunny, then it is hard to hide these details when turning it into a night time picture. However, I have found that adding a blue wash/tone over the picture and adding in night time details (such as a moon and stars) makes the final picture more effective.
When there are people in the picture, it also makes it more difficult to change from day to night because the lighting on them would look different in daylight versus night light.
Depending on the picture, a day to night transformation can be tricky. If a landscape photo has too many clouds in the sky or if is very obviously sunny, then it is hard to hide these details when turning it into a night time picture. However, I have found that adding a blue wash/tone over the picture and adding in night time details (such as a moon and stars) makes the final picture more effective.
When there are people in the picture, it also makes it more difficult to change from day to night because the lighting on them would look different in daylight versus night light.
Day to Night Tutorial
5) Make sure your lighting type is switched to Omni. I placed the light source in the area that I will be placing the moon after. The light should start at the centre of the picture and get darker around the edges of it. You can make the light source area bigger or smaller, and modify the intensity of the lighting by moving the sliders under Intensity and Ambience. |
6) Once the lighting has been applied, take the Burn and Dodge tool to lighten up specific spots of the picture. Burn will darken the area. Dodge will lighten it. You can modify the Exposure amount and Brush Size with the sliders under the menu bar. For this, I recommend using a larger brush with the intensity set between 10-20. Make quick sweeps with the Burn tool around the edge of the photo to darken the edges even more. Use Lighten around the light source. |
8) Take your Round Marquee tool and draw a circle where you want your moon to go. We want it just peeking over that horizon. Next, take your Magnetic Lasso tool, click on Subtract from Selection under the menu bar, and select the horizon. The magnetic line should adhere to the edge of the horizon, Cut out the area where the moon should hidden. 9) Right click on the selected area and click Feather. |
16) Change the blending option of the gradient layer in the Layers tool bar.
I changed it Overlay and then changed the Opacity to 60%. 17) You may continue to use your Burn and Dodge tool to add more detail to the picture. For example, I took my Dodge and created a reflection of the moon in the lake. I also took my Brush tool, set the size to 5 and 9, and added stars to the night sky. |