Control over LUT creating of values ?

[StrongBeaver]

I'm hoping someone can help, as I need alot of control over the colors which get applied to an image via a LUT file. 

For example; suppose I have a very dark image, dark as in, it was taken in the evening.  I save a 3D LUT file from this image within Photoshop, considering the image I created the 3D LUT from does not show any reds etc, not that they don't exist, one just doesn't see those reds with the naked eye. If I take the 3D LUT and apply it to an image which may have been shot in the day hours and contains alot of red, the goal of applying my 3D LUT to the day light image, so to speak is to make it dark, as if it was evening, although that is not happening when I take the evening image, create a 3D LUT from that image and apply it to a day light image which contains alot of red etc. 

How do I get the daylight image to look as if it was shot in the evening ?

[Mike_Gondek]

Have you tried some of the LUTS that come with Photoshop, there are a few for this so try them all.

You can then add other layers to help with luminosity & saturation

[StrongBeaver]

I have tried them all, only one gives me the evening look; although the image which I want to create a LUT from is an evening image but I compare to say the Moonlight.3DL I don't know why it's not causing the image to be dark as if it were evening.

[StrongBeaver · Accepted solution]

I found the solution, take an image, if it's for example an evening image as in my situation, apply a levels adjustment layer, make the image even darker.  Save the LUT, apply it to any image, if it's good or you need it a little darker, apply another levels adjustment layer; save that once again as a LUT, in my situation that is all that was needed and the resulting LUT makes an image look as if it was taken in the evening.