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author: Xtro
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This tutorial is actually quite easy and short, which doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. In fact, it means the complete opposite. I took this shot while I was in Prague. 'Oh, wouldn't it look wondeful at night?' the wife says. Now, I had two options; stand around for 6 hours in sub arctic temperatures missing valuable drinking time, or photoshop it. Guess which I chose? Yep, I stood around for 6 hours. You don't know my wife. Anyway, here's what you do:
requirements:
Adobe Photoshop 6 or higher
target result:

step 1
Open up your image in photoshop :


step 2
Make a new layer by hitting CRTL+J:


step 3
Go Image->Adjustments->Shadow/Highlights. Play around with the settings.


step 4
Hit CRTL+M to bring up the Curves screen:


step 5
You can see that the green railing is a bit too, well green. Hit CRTL+U to open the Hue/Saturation box. Get green from the drop down list and lower the saturation and lightness:


step 6
Do the same with the blue:


step 7
Select the bottom layer and desaturate the blue in just the same way. Now the cool part. Select the History Brush (Y). Give it a low Opacity and 'paint' the lights. This is kind of like an eraser, only it erases just the things we have done.


step 8
One last thing we need to do is go back to the bottom layer and change the foreground color to a yellowish hew.


step 9
Now just take the brush tool and with a low Opacity, color in the lights.




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