Enhancing your sunset tones

WHETHER SHOOTING PORTRAITS OR LANDSCAPES, USE THESE TONAL TRICKS TO BOOST YOUR SUNSETS

1 Target colours

The Colour Mixer panel in Camera Raw and Lightroom is very useful for targeting and enhancing different colour ranges. Go to the panel, click the Saturation tab then drag left or right over colours in the image to change the saturation of the colours within. It’s useful for boosting oranges and yellows in sunsets.

2 Select the sky

You can boost the colours selectively in the sky using an adjustment layer. First go to Select>sky. Then click the adjustment layer icon in the Layers panel and choose your adjustment – try Hue/saturation to boost the colour intensity, or Curves to add contrast to the sky.

U3 se Channel Mixer

Here’s a quick tip for boosting sunset colours. Add a Channel Mixer adjustment layer. Set Output Channel: Red then set Red +200, Green -50, Blue -50. Set Output Channel: Blue and set Blue +200, Red -50, Green -50. Adjust the strength by altering layer opacity.