Step 1 – Under colour management, change look from none to medium high contrast, which adds a little extra punch to the image.
Step 2 – In the compositing tab, check ‘Use Nodes’ and use Shift and A to add a render layers node and a glare node with 2 streaks. Lets just turn the mix down a little. Add another glare node set to fog glow. This makes all the lights look amazing!
Step 3 – add a colour balance node and get the classic orange and teal grading by tweaking the lift to blue, and the gain to orange.
Connect the output to a viewer and composite nodes.
Step 4 – Back in the layout view, add a giant cube which covers your whole scene, and add give it a new material called fog. Disconnect the surface shader, and set the volume shader to principled volume. Set the density to 0.003.
Now we have some nice glow around the streetlights.
Step 5 – in the camera settings, turn on depth of field and set the F-stop to a small number below 1. Turn on Limits in viewport display, and you can see where your camera will focus.
BAM – instant bokeh highlights.

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