Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

PL5: Optical corrections an NR, adjust local tone and contrast, remove light post, add a bit of vibrancy=> Lum AI to change skies.

I haven't had any problems using it with PS CC or as standalone. Certainly worth reporting it.

Final throw of the dice.

1. Aurora using my saved DNG file
2. Luminar AI crop and replace sky
3. Topaz Sharpen AI. (When used solo it always seems to generate huge files)
4 Photoshop Savbe As at quality 10

As usual, not competing, just hanging out . . .

Your take on the lighting is superb Peano.

NigelD wrote in post #19305799
Your take on the lighting is superb Peano.

Thank you!

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Great job with day to night with everyone you have done

Did you follow a certain video of how to turn day into night, if so which one, or is this your own workflow, and mind sharing ?

I know there are several on Utube

Bianchi wrote in post #19306098
Great job with day to night with everyone you have done

Did you follow a certain video of how to turn day into night, if so which one, or is this your own workflow, and mind sharing ?

I know there are several on Utube

I figured it out on my own years ago. Then I had a client photographer who needed DTN conversions of houses for his real estate clients. I did several hundred for him, so I got pretty good at it.

I'll put together a few posts to explain the main steps that I use. Probably over the weekend. I have no secrets. I'll share anything I know.

I'll look forward to that - thank you.

Today is the last day for submissions. Voting tomorrow.

Just to clarify I'm voting, not the membership.

That's right, your challenge, your choice.

Oooh! Impressive work here, a level or two above my abilities.
I'm surprised nobody took out the post at the left side of the closer end of what looks like a bridge. (Rail/tramway post and signal).

NigelD wrote in post #19306695
That's right, your challenge, your choice.

My bad. When Made the first post I thought everyone knew that. Don't assume

As promised, here come a few posts explaining some of the technique I use for day-to-night conversions. (I would emphasize that these techniques are useful for a good deal more than DTN conversions.)

1. The DTN group. The heart of day-to-night as I do it is a group of two hue/saturation adjustment layers -- one to darken, the other to tint everything blue. I've seen tutorials that use a Color Lookup adj. layer with a nighttime preset, but the grouped hue/sat layers offer much more flexibility. You can fine tune the darkness as well as the hue and saturation levels of the blue tint.

With that setup, just use black to knock holes in the group mask to reveal the original daylight image. Note that I flattend the brush into an ellipse to be consistent with the perspective of the street.