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A Work in Progress: State Street Chicago
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day for night 2
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Original pic taken by me.
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Straighten, crop, and adjust original picture.
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Select the sky and make it a layer, then clip a darkish blue color fill to it.
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Put a dark blue layer over everything with a Multiply blend. Then started adding color layers above the blue overcolor for brighter lights using the Color Dodge blend.
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Continue with glows for individual lights using 8 to 18 percent opacity on the already Color Dodged layers.
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Glows on streets some lighted building windows all at low opacity color dodge.
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Start to remove the sun generated bright area on the Elevated Overpass.
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Select and copy a layer of sunny part of this building to be darkened and blended then blended.
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step 9 of 11
Area on far right behind clock is in sun shadow, next step to fix
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Applied and tweaked exposure filter over the shadowed area on the right while masking out the clock.
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Fix shadow on building behind tower. Finalized with tweaks, Camera Raw Filter, and decided to crop further for composition.
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Final result
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