Hello guys I am Vaibhav here and in this tutorial I am going to show you how to add golden sunset effect in Photoshop. This tutorial is basically written for landscape and travel photographers. Here I am using my own snapped  pic of Dimna lake, Jamshedpur, India. I took this photo in the morning around 9-10 am but I am going to make it look like I snapped this pic during evening. It’s just a matter of gradient, blending mode and levels. Nothing more than that.

STEP 1

First thing that we need to do is to add a Gradient Map. After opening your image in Photoshop press F7 for the layer panel and then click on add adjustment layer which you can find at the bottom of the layer window. After that click on Gradient Map.

STEP 2

Now your Gradient Map panel should be openend. Simply click on the gradient color drop down button.

STEP 3

Look at the figure below. You can see a similar window has opened in your laptop. First you need to click on the white color spot which in encircled with black color and then click on the drop down menu which is denoted by arrow.

STEP 4

Note down the hex value of the color which is encircled and write the same value in your PS too. It’s nothing but the code of that color that we are going to use. Press OK.

STEP 5

Now double click on the white spot which is encircled and then on the drop down menu which is denoted by arrow.

STEP 6

Copy the color code as you did for red color in previous step

STEP 7

Press OK. Now your gradient will look like this

STEP 8

Change the blend mode of  gradient map layer to overlay. You can find blending mode at the top of the layer window.

STEP 9

If you think that your photo is over saturated  then simply reduce the opacity. Now once again add new adjustment layer as we did in step 2. This time select Levels.

STEP 10

Drop down the pre-set menu and click on “mid-tone brighter” or you can adjust the levels manually.