For the final image I wanted a type of lighting that was completely different from the previous two.
Lighting 3 - A moonlit night
In this image I decided to take nearly all lighting out, and then add my own for the moonlight. To achieve this, I firstly painted over the sunspot at the top of the photo because there would obviously be no sun in this photo. Next I altered the light levels to reflect the amount of light that would be visible at midnight, which was basically nothing so the darkness levels were increased a lot.
To give the main look that the path was being lit by moonlight, I created a new layer with a dark-light blue gradient and set the layer settings to "Overlay". This was a bit too intense so I reduced the opacity of the layer to 80% and changed the brightness.
After this I changed the light levels of the leaves in the foreground and several of the buildings in the background so they were a bit brighter, then using the Hue/Saturation options I increased the saturation to +20, with "Blues" selected because I didn't want it to affect all the RGB layers. This made it look a lot more realistic because the parts that were already bright in the image stayed the same brightness but had a blue tint as if it were being lit by blue moonlight.
Next I decided to put the moon in the place where the sun had been, so I found some old photos I had of the moon and created that as a new layer. After changing the Shadows/Highlights options, I made the moon appear brighter than it first was to give the illusion that it was giving off a lot of light. I also duplicated the layer and gave it a blue Hue and set the layer options to Multiply, which created the effect of a "blue moon".
Finally, a cooling filter and moon beams were added to the whole image so the lighting appeared more natural and the filter balanced all the light levels in the image so nothing appeared over or underlit.
The final image has been scaled down to fit the page, so quality has been lost as well. The original, full resolution image will be on the CD when it is submitted.
