How to Give Your Photos the Cyberpunk Look in Photoshop

In today's Adobe Photoshop tutorial I'm going to show you some image processing techniques to achieve a cool Cyberpunk style visual effect within your photos.
This popular art style takes inspiration from 80s nostalgia, and the neon-noir genre of movies such as Bladerunner, which feature densely populated, futuristic cities illuminated by bright neon signs and advertisements.
We'll process the original photo to give it a hyper-realistic HDR appearance, then apply heavy colour grading with hot pinks and bright blues, which are a popular aesthetic of this style.
Enhancements to the neon signs, plus some subtle mist and smoke effects will then finish off the image with the stylised atmosphere of those neon-noir movies.

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[jankokreso]

Hi guys, I know this doesn't have much to do with Cyberpunk look, but I have to share the ebook/tutorial "Design Evolution: Unlocking Adobe Photoshop's Secrets." It's one of the best guides on both graphic design and Photoshop. Thank me later!

[Photoshop]

Your work is stunning! It makes us want to book a one-way ticket to Seoul. 😊

[Panzer_Runner]

Original photo : Cyberpunk
Edited photo : *_ＣＹＢＥＲＰＵＮＫ_*

[AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

I've only ever used the select tool by colour range, but that trick with selecting highlights is genius. Cheers for the great video as always mate!

[jackkraken]

That addition of neon lights really helped the image pop. Nice work.

[DeeL]

Man, learning Photoshop hurts my brain. Much respect to you all who make it look easy.

[CODMReaper]

I learned more techniques in this video than I have in a month of my old media class.

[fgmods]

Was sitting with my mouth open in amazement after the RAW stuff. Had no idea that was how some of these effects were done.
10/10 video, definitely using this as my reference to try out this style in the future.

[OriginalnaPL]

Cyberpunk aesthetic is so pretty, this picture looks great, subbed :D

[nesbits]

you, sir, are an absolute gift to digital artists

[jackscott]

Software engineer here who just started learning Photoshop and thought it would be easy. Yall have gained a new level of respect from me. Damn this is hard lol

[Roamaroo]

Wow! Blown away by this tutorial.😲 . It's very informative and has a great pace. I didn't realize you could create neon signs like that! Fantastic work! 👍

[christopherdwyer]

That trick with pumping the highlights to brighten the lights is amazing. Thanks!

[rendonclarkson]

It blends well with photos with lights, metals and reflection of lights.

[gilasharp]

A boring photograph turned into a masterpiece

[motionbymike]

From a video editors perspective learning what you can do in photoshop is mind blowing

[overdigitize]

Amazing tutorial. Like Liam Wong's style

[dongwonbryanchung]

Hi, I am a Korean and I was surprised from 7:20 to 8:00. I don't think you know Korean letters, but the cheap and norman sign was changed very beautiful funky light sign.
Thank you for your video.

[zeneal]

This video changed the whole game for me, thanks man! The cool thing is you can apply the same technique with different colors as well.

[gingerbeargames]

it's so simple once you know how, I doubt I'd have managed this on my own. Thanks man.