Stunning long exposure Golden Hour in Photoshop from any photo

[@photoshopcafe]

Written steps here: photoshopcafe.com/turn-landscape-photo-stunning-sunset-photoshop/

[@alisonmeier5826]

Thank you! :)

[@MacMarty44]

You're an excellent teacher Colin. Lots of important concepts in this lesson. One "quick tip" I did not know was how to temporarily unlink a layer to move. That made my day! Finally, my preference is the sky without the blur. -Thanks!

[@mikekabel8479]

Love the radial blur in the sky

[@gotchagr]

I love your tutorials! You are a gifted teacher for all of us! :)

[@bobm2410]

Liked the radial blur at the end to show cloud movement, since the water had indicated a longer exposure. That way, you've 'tied the major elements of the photo (sky, water) together for a more realistic image

[@ManoChandraDhas]

Great tutorial. Always amazed at your knowledge of Photoshop and Lightroom, Colin. Thank you for sharing!

[@yellowbear1000]

I love the blurred sky. Great tutorial

[@D300Dave]

Another great tutorial Colin - matching the color, adding the reflection, and applying the gradient gave me more tools for my toolbox. Tried it on one of my landscape shots and am very happy with the results.

[@davidholdstock]

Hello again and thank you for another great tutorial. This new sky replacement feature has HUGE potential and really is great fun to use! It was helpful to see the method taken further too. As usual, your calm but very confident and professional method of teaching is greatly appreciated.

[@julieboyle170]

The Zoom Blur seemed more appropriate for the long exposure. Great tutorial.

[@rodshelley1170]

Great tutorial as always, Colin! I could seriously spend 48 hours a day (LOL) playing with this stuff. Who needs sleep, anyway? 😉

[@paflagonian]

I really appreciated your clear explication tutorial. It is not easy to find tutorial about the new version of Photoshop. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@davidjamieson206]

Great tutorial, Colin. I' been struggling with reflection and flipping the sky. All fixed now. Thank you.

[@dorothysansom8841]

Thanks for nicely detailed instructions. Always learn from your videos.

[@drshawnie]

I like the motion blur best Colin. Great tutorial too! Thank you so much

[@charlespearson5268]

Super video Colin. Thanks very much Best wishes from the UK

[@warrengh5647]

Great video Colin. My favourite was the colour match, that was new to me.

[@petersutton523]

Love this technique, it almost makes “big stopper” filters redundant because now I can get the long exposure effect without all the weird colour issues I get using the filter. 👍

[@michaeleicken3645]

great tutorial, I learned some very helpful things to use the sky replacement in a realistic way, thank you very much

[@hollypotts721]

Thank you - I was not aware of the Match Colour. Have found this very useful! Prefer the motion blur effect.

[@stuartbraithwaite1297]

Great Tutorial, one of my favourite areas of NZ

[@thomas.mosel.photography]

Thanks for this tutorial. Will apply this.

[@ericgofreed1651]

Thank you. You are a great teacher.

[@loris45]

always great as usual, thank you!

[@terrykellyphotography6171]

Excellent tutorial, thank you!

[@CJGlynnPhotography]

Colin, good tutorial as always. Why not make the sky and reflection into smart objects so you could adjust the blu if you wanted? Thx.

[@susanwilson6409]

Thank you Colin, Adding the blur to the sky and the water made a big difference

[@patv3255]

Great tutorial. Thanks

[@schicklegrubber]

Preferred the sky blur/movement. Thanks!

[@thomasrobinson8988]

Great tutorial Colin, very well explained, made relatively simple by your easy way of explaining how to do this step by step, and not assuming that we are all photoshop experts. I have some issues with seriously changing how an original image looks, and I would prefer to not make drastic changes to my original image. I have been to Milford Sound 3 or 4 years ago, and it is a stunning location, as is all of NZ. I like the effect of motion blur in the sky, and I use filters to get these effects, as I rather enjoy doing this at the time of taking the photo, as opposed to post processing. But I guess there is no right of wrong, all photography that involves processing is manipulation, some more than others however. I enjoy watching your videos as I feel I do learn quite a lot of very useful techniques as part of the post processing work flow.

[@DavidMaciasPhoto]

Love it!

[@bolivarporto]

Great tip!!!!

[@ABAJZA75]

Learned a bunch! Thank you

[@ABAJZA75]

And I loved the blurred clouds.

[@charlesdup6803]

Outstanding application and tutorial, Colin! I thinkthis shot looks better with the blurred clouds!

[@TomStrazulla]

Great tutorial. Your explanations are intuitive and easy to follow. Thanks.

[@Mr31formula]

Fantastic! Going to watch this one a bunch. I like the soft sky best. THANK YOU.

[@SoCalMal]

Visited Milford Sound in 2019 so you brought back fond memories of its beauty. Now going to experiment with what I learned in this video. Cheers!

[@davearchbell9921]

Excellent. I learned the colour match. Great stuff.

[@wingincamera]

Love it. Personally for this photo, I like it better without the cloud blur.

[@leniehulse1621]

Thank you for a great video as usual! Learnt colour match today and several other things!

[@PHILI041]

Great tutorial, love how you managed to blur the clouds.

[@RhettBrownatRetroWreck]

Thanks Colin! Great tutorial as always. I will try this today.

[@dunnymonster]

Great tutorial. I use " match color " a lot for my composites, its a great easy to use tool 😀

[@Steven.v1062]

Thanks

[@jimbembinster]

Thank you Colin, interesting tutorial and yes I did learn something new.

[@j.p.madsen6693]

Yes, just what I was looking for. So good, Regards from Denmark

[@lindamcmullan9983]

Just started to learn photoshop and absolutely amazed at what you can do... So happy I came across your channel 😁😁😁

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks

[@FabianRodriguess]

I'm learning a lot with your tutorials. Regards from Brazil.

[@briangilbert6241]

Fantastic Tutorial learnt something new. I notice that the reflection in the water is not covering it all.

[@photoshopcafe]

It doesn't matter, you just need to sell the effect. People don't normally see the before image, you can paint in the mask if you want to apply it to more of the image, or select the water, lots of things you could do, but I think this tut is long enough :)

[@briangilbert6241]

@@photoshopcafe Thank you for your reply.

[@YardLimit]

Great video. Can you use your own sky picture to make this work?

[@photoshopcafe]

Absolutely

[@biancadupont2931]

very helpful. thank you. However I wonder what the "new" AI's will do to make this much easier but this is a much simpler method than looking at RGB and playing with it that way. I like that your tutorials are short and that you are able to show the viewer where to find things- so many of these tutorials you have to watch billions of times cause they talk so fast and don't explain it very well.

[@algrogg6495]

Hi Colin...I love your work and I have learned a few things from your tuts. I am an aerial photographer and my customers are always asking me to "fix" their photos. The most common requests I get are to green up the grass because of drought. Any easy fixes for this?

[@davidholdstock]

Hello:) You could use a hue/saturation adjustment layer and select just the green and correct the colour that way. Alternatively, you could use a colour balance adjustment (again, as a layer so it is done non-destructively). You could even select the area you want to edit and simply add a solid colour adjustment layer and set it (the adjustment layer, not the image) to 'colour' blend mode. Another method would be to the new rather wonderful colour alteration panels in Camera Raw (applied as a filter in Photoshop or with the image loaded into Camera Raw from another Adobe program such as 'Bridge'). There are many different ways to work with colour in Photoshop. Hope this helps! :)

[@seannorton69]

Liked it without, but an excellent tutorial.

[@BobG-eh5fc]

Thanks, prefer the movement, but less.

[@collinpotratz750]

Two major issues: First, you should have aligned the reflections to the horizon instead of the middle of the photo. Second, you probably should have mirrored the mountains in the reflections as well.

[@photoshopcafe]

Could I have made this more perfect? Absolutely. Would I want to make a tutorial more complicated? Absolutely not.

[@allisgran9466]

I have Photoshop 2020 and it doesn't have sky replacement that I can find. Am I right?

[@ManoChandraDhas]

@PhotoshopCAFE Question: Colin, would you go through this process in the begining of a process on an image or at the end? Or, it does not matter? 😊

[@photoshopcafe]

Interesting question, Id do it at the beginning, because otherwise all your color work would be wasted.

[@MrRaceluver]

Excellent Tutorial, thank you!

[@oliviaoliver4123]

Great tutorial! Thanks.