The Midnight Effect - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

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The Midnight Filter Effect.

Although at first glance this effect may appear useless but the effects in tutorial can be very cool if used creatively either by itself or as part of a larger process.

1:
You will need an image or photograph, I chose a photo of this building I took in Germany. The exposure and image color quality of the photograph is poor so I thought I could use some manipulation. You will need to choose an image or photo you feel would be appropriate but pretty much any photo will do for the purposes of this tutorial.

2:
Copy the background layer. Select the background layer and either drag into the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette or right click on the background layer and select ‘duplicate layer.’

3:
With the new layer selected bring up the hue/saturation dialogue (ctrl+U) click the colorize tab. You can play with the values but don’t play with the lightness slider. You can also try just entering the values I have.

4:
Add a Gaussian blur. Filter – Blur – Gaussian and enter the values below (3.6 pixels).

5:
Set the current layer’s mode to multiply, and your image should look something like the one below.

6 (optional)
To further increase the effect, copy the layer you were just working on again (the duplicated layer) again and then bring up the hue/saturation dialogue once more (ctrl+U) and re-colorize the new layer to bring out a more desirous color if need be.

And with that done your final image should something like the one to the left. Its done!

Thank you taking the time to read this tutorial/article, and I hope it helped you in some way.

This tutorial was created by Chris Arlidge of www.steeldolphin.com, if you have questions about this tutorial visit the Steel Dolphin Creative - Art and Design Forums: www.steeldolphin-forums.com.