Day to Night: make the sun rise or set on any image

Shot it at noon, needed it at night? Upload the image and Day to Night relights the whole frame: the sky darkens, windows and signs switch on, shadows swing to the new sun. Go from flat daylight to golden hour, dusk or full night, or the other way, without a single mask.

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What does Day to Night do?

Day to Night shifts the lighting in an image to a different time of day, turning a daytime photo into dusk or night, or a night shot into morning, with sky, shadows, reflections and light sources updated to match. Filmmakers call the manual trick day for night. Artlist's preset does it from one upload: pick the direction and the scene is relit.

What Day to Night does

Change the hour, keep the shot.

  • A full relight, not a blue filter

    Classic day for night just darkens and tints. The preset changes the direction and color of the light, turns on practicals like signs and windows, and rebuilds the sky, so the result reads as a real night exposure.

  • Both directions

    Take a noon street to midnight neon, or lift a dim evening shot into a clear morning. The same upload can produce several times of day for a before-and-after or a time-lapse feel.

  • Location scouting without the wait

    See how a venue, a storefront or a set looks after dark before you book the night shoot. Share the relit frames with the team and decide the call time with evidence.

  • Part of 70+ AI tools

    Your Artlist credits work across the whole toolkit. Fix color first with White Balance Fix, swap the setting entirely with the background changer, or animate the result with image to video.

Who uses Day to Night?

Anyone who has the right frame at the wrong time of day.

  • Filmmakers and location scouts

    Preview a location at night or dawn before committing a crew, and build day-for-night references for the DP.

  • Real estate and hospitality marketers

    Show the same property at golden hour and after dark from one daytime photo, without a second visit.

  • Photographers and social creators

    Turn a flat midday shot into a moody evening image for a feed, a poster or a thumbnail.

Frequently asked questions

Upload the image to Artlist's Day to Night preset and run it toward night. The preset darkens the sky, moves the light direction, switches on windows and signs and adjusts shadows and reflections so the scene looks photographed after dark. Download the relit image.

Yes. The preset shifts lighting in either direction, so a night or evening shot can be relit for morning or midday. Results are cleanest when the original has enough detail in the shadows to work from.

Day for night is the film technique of shooting in daylight and darkening the footage to fake night. Day to Night does the relight itself, changing light sources, sky and shadows rather than only lowering exposure and tinting blue.

Exteriors and interiors with visible light sources such as windows, lamps and signs give the most convincing results, because the preset can turn them on. Keep the subject sharp and well exposed in the source.

Artlist uses a credit-based model, so you can relight images without paying for a separate tool. Your credits work across 70+ AI apps on the platform, which makes it better value than a single-purpose app. Check Artlist's current plans and trial options for the latest details.

Yes. Images you relight on Artlist are covered by your Artlist license, so you can use them in listings, campaigns, decks and client work. See the Artlist license for the exact terms of your plan.

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