How to Turn Day into Night in Adobe Photoshop

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.

This tutorial should work on all current versions of Photoshop, including Photoshop CS4, CS5 and CS6.

Tools used in this tutorial:

Adjustment Layers (Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast): By using an Adjustment Layers, you're able to change targeted areas of your photo without damaging the original layer. These can either be applied to the full image, or specific areas using selections or Layer Masks. At any point in the future, you can either make changes to the adjustment, hide it, or delete it completely.

Layer Masks: If there's an area of your layer that you wish to hide (or bring back), Layer Masks will help you do that. Painting using a black brush will hide portions of the layer, and painting with a white brush will reveal them. Black and white gradients can also be used.

Layer Styles: If you're looking to add effects to your layers, you'll likely want to use Layer Styles. Whether it's an outer glow, a few shadows, or a bevel to give it depth, the possibilities are endless!

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[GuerkanHantal]

Very very nice tut Howard. This is exactly how tutorials should be. Getting to the point, no bla bla in the beginning, no uuuhmm aaahmm during the video and no other disctractions. I know, not everyone's a pro like Howard, but nonetheless, here's how it's done guys. Keep the amazing work up Mr. Iceflow Studios.

[franshartman]

Yesterday I found your lessons here on YouTube. You are amazing! I love the fact that you use layers not to destruct the original and find the way you explain it incredibly clear and understandable. Love to watch this and wish you all the best in publishing more lessons. You are the master! This one to turn day into night and above all the lamps you lightened up, amazing!!!

[acidoh]

It's more realistic if you check colorize and move the slider to blues or purples in Hue/Saturation after dragging the slider of brightness to the left and the contrast to the right like Howard said... love your tutorials, Howard!

[fuzzypiglet]

It was going great up to the part with the light cone

[CornyKorn]

Great Tutorial and well explained in detail. Helped me a lot to do things a lot faster than i usually did ;) Thank you, can't wait to see more !

[zeddistic]

Oh god! Howard thanks GOD! I had a dream just now that i fell into a coma in 2013, and woke up at 2029, Your avatar was an ugly bouncing gif, And your videos had no voice over, but HORRIBLE music which made the comments bounce up and down. and the worst of all, my best friend couldn't remember who I was, I'm so grateful you're still here with us making AMAZING tutorials.

[mprechl]

I really like how you sneak in some shortcuts and general Ps tricks into these tutorials!

[JoshDangerFabean]

I don't even know what is real anymore! Also the blend-if option = mind blown!

[VonKaNon]

FYI - I used the same technique on CS 5.5 and the results were just as spectacular. Thanks for posting this tut.

[igorotani]

Very good tutorial and you have a very nice way to teach. Thanks a lot.

[ambersmith]

Thanx, some helpful tips in there. Keen to try it out for my current project.

[BeckyAnn]

Loving these tutorials, Howard. I'm finally finding my niche and becoming comfortable with Photoshop, thanks to you!!

[WCSally]

Thanks Howard, was sweating exactly this problem some time back!!

[ciao]

Thank you. I have a light effect project due Thursday for my graphics design class and my professor goes so fast that I can't seem to keep up with the class. But after watching this video and going through the steps I got this project down perfectly. Great tutorial! <3

[JMXXL]

Wow I never heard of underlying layer blending before. Thanks.

[IonutNedelcu]

thank you for the awesome tutorials :) leaned many things from you.

[SociallyChallenged]

way easier then I thought it would be! thank you!

[sandysun]

Awesome teaching skills very useful tutorials foe me thanks for sharing ..

[crocodail]

AMAZING!!!!I AM YOUR BIG FAN!!!! I ACTUALLY THOUGHT YOU R MUCH OLDER!!!GREAT JOB AGAIN!!

[vignannakka]

Can also use gaussian blur to fade out the moonshine triangle!
Also the lights under the poles should be there.