{"id":5960,"date":"2008-07-24T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-create-a-warm-golden-sunset-in-photoshop\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:28:59","slug":"how-to-create-a-warm-golden-sunset-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-create-a-warm-golden-sunset-in-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: create a warm, golden sunset in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunset has a special light that makes really beautiful landscapes, full of warm shades of red and orange. Unfortunately photos can&#8217;t always capture the beauty of such an inspiring moment, but you can always rely on Photoshop to lend you a hand with that. Here&#8217;s how to fix your sunset photos to make them look as beautiful as the real thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Open your photo, click on <em>New Adjustment Layer<\/em> and select <em>Gradient<\/em> on the drop-down menu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/sunset01.jpg\" alt=\"create a warm, golden sunset in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Click on the gradient bar and you&#8217;ll open the <em>Gradient Editor<\/em>. Now we&#8217;re going to change the colors of the gradient.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/sunset02.jpg\" alt=\"create a warm, golden sunset in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Double click on the small squares highlighted on the image and you&#8217;ll open Photoshop&#8217;s color picker. Select a bight red for the square on the left, and a warm yellow for the one on the right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/sunset03.jpg\" alt=\"create a warm, golden sunset in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Now change the adjustment layer&#8217;s blending mode to <em>Overlay<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/sunset04.jpg\" alt=\"create a warm, golden sunset in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> &#8230;and lower its opacity a bit, until you like the result.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/sunset05.jpg\" alt=\"create a warm, golden sunset in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Here&#8217;s your brand new sunset picture!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/sunset06.jpg\" alt=\"create a warm, golden sunset in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunset has a special light that makes really beautiful landscapes, full of warm shades of red and orange. Unfortunately photos can&#8217;t always capture the beauty of such an inspiring moment, but you can always rely on Photoshop to lend you a hand with that. Here&#8217;s how to fix your sunset photos to make them look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-create-a-warm-golden-sunset-in-photoshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to: create a warm, golden sunset in Photoshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335965,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/335965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}