Let’s see in this Photoshop tutorial how you can change the time of the day on a photo and transform it from a sunny day to sunset.
Open a picture. Increase the contrast of the photograph. Duplicate the layer with Ctrl+J and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next presets:
Make changes to the layer mode & opacity/fill according to your preference. Here, I used Soft Light with opacity of 50%. So, the result should be next:
Merge two of these layers and use the Sharpen Tool (Brush: 1000 px, Mode: Normal, Strength: 30%) to add more sharpness to the photograph.
It is time to change the background. To change the sky, use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to separate sky area from other parts.
To choose the small unselected part between building elements, hold the Shift button. When you will see a plus sign near the cursor you can add extra selection of this small part.
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Duplicate the selected area to the new layer with Ctrl+J and apply Gradient Overlay to this layer.
Now change the water and ground colour. Go back to background layer and use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to choose the water and ground area.
Hold Shift to make extra selection of small part of the water on the left side.
Press Ctrl+J to duplicate selected part of image to the new layer. Then apply Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation using the parameters given below.
The result:
Slightly darken the background to remove the appearance of the defect pictures. Use the Burn Tool (Brush: 150px, Mode: Midtones, Exposure: 20%) to darken the rear part of background.
You have to make change to the hue of the building. To cut building shape to the new layer, merge all the layers in one excepting background layer. Then load new received layer selection with Select > Load Selection. After that, invert the selection with Select > Inverse. Then, navigate to the background layer and press Ctrl+J to duplicate the selected area to the new layer. Now apply Gradient Overlay layer style for the new copied layer.
You can see the result on the picture below.
Apply Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast with next presets:
See the difference now:
This is how the final image will look.
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