Monday, November 23, 2009

Super-easy way to enhance sunset photos


Everyone love a beautiful and moving sunset.
The colours are bright, the Sun is fired and the sky paint a beautiful gradient turning from red to deep blue.
Wonderful and romantic. So, how about enhance these beautiful scenario? We are going to find a super-easy way to post-produce a sunset photo improving its romantic effect in two simple steps.

1. Open your sunset picture and duplicate the level.



2. Go to Image>Adjustment>Levels and change the parameters to give your sky more impact. The way you change this parameters depends on your photo. The weaker are the colours more you have to play with the values.




Done!




You can obtain more different enhancing effects playing with the levels.





You also may change saturation, playing with the blending options or enlightening the point where the Sun has been disappearing just going to Filter>Render>Lighting effects.