Hi guys,
This is the first time I am writing a tutorial so please be patient where ever I go wrong.
I saw an image at deviantart.com which i liked very much, however I have lost that now, but still have that in mind. In this tutorial i have tried to get that similar effect on any photograph.


Here is the picture i started off with (better if there is no sun):


The first step is to desaturate it: (ctrl+shift+u)


Now we need to have a moon:
Use eclipse tool to draw a circle (feather=10px) and fill it with white color. Lower down the opacity of it. Thus we have got a moon.


I added some grass at the bottom (upto you).

And now comes the main part LIGHTNING:
goto filter>>render>>lightening effects
Place a bulb at the moon and choose light type as omni. Adjust the intensity according to the image.
Do the same for all luminous objects in the image (light type = spotlight if at corners and light type= omni if at the center).

Here is what i got:


In order to give a bit of dreamy effect, just duplicate the layer and set the blend mode to darken and add Gaussian blur (of about 2)
That’s it:


I hope you all liked it, though it is not as good as the image I saw.

Please feel free to post your comments and do rate the tutorial.

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First I would like to thank you all for taking interest in the tutorial and posting your comments.
I agree that the lightning was little out of place. However here i correct it:

As for grass, i did that purposely. The image that i saw had those like that. However that is totally upto you.

I hope that it is alright now.

Thanks once again guys for your replies
Speedy

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QUOTE (speedy)

I agree that the lightning was little out of place. However here i correct it:

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Wow, that looks so much better. Those dark spots made it look foggy, and also made the whole image look darker, more like night. Another thing (wow, I go on forever), it also brought out the island in the background and made you notice it.

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Hmm, nice work on that picture. But don't you think that in a dark environment, a light, even as dim as it is, should be gleaming? The effect on that lamp can be much improved on. =]
For more detail, you could even add slight shadows on the moon, maybe using noise and doing stuff here and there.

Anyway, great job.

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Hmm, nice work on that picture. But don't you think that in a dark environment, a light, even as dim as it is, should be gleaming? The effect on that lamp can be much improved on. =]
For more detail, you could even add slight shadows on the moon, maybe using noise and doing stuff here and there.

Anyway, great job.
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Very good indeed. Though it's obvious that the lamp post didn't belong there and that you used a soft brush to get rid of the initial grass in the original picture.
The edited picture is awesome. I'm an avid user of the duplicate-layer-set-gaussian-blut-to-3-and-change-blending-mode thingum. I love it's dreamy effect.

What could, perhaps, add to it, is if you add a layer, use the lasso tool, feather 2 or 3, make triangular strokes from the moon, stretching downwards, fill it with white, drop the transparacy a bit, perhaps fiddle with some blending modes, and perhaps adding a slight outer glow in the same white color.
Just a suggestion though. I love your tutorial.

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