How to Vignette a Photo
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Comments: 9
For this vignetting treatment, we’ll be darkening the edges of a photograph. This is a quick and easy tutorial!
Final Image Preview
Starter Image
I’ve adjusted an image of Megan Fox for use in this tutorial:
The Process
- Create a new layer above your photograph. Name it Vignette.
- Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool from the Tools window.
- Click and drag from the top-left corner of the image to the bottom-right corner of the image.
- Select the inverse of your new oval by going to Select » Inverse.
- Feather your new selection by going to Select » Modify » Feather.
- In the Feather Selection dialog box, type in 50px. (You may increase or decrease this number as necessary based on the size of your photo.)
- Change your foreground color to black (hex value: #000000).
- Select the Paint Bucket Tool from the Tools window.
- Click anywhere on the layer with your feathered selection still active to darken the edges.
- Adjust the Opacity of the layer (at the top of the Layers panel) to 70%.
Final Image
Comments
4:35 PM
thank you so much i will try it on my email signture http://www.photoshopna.com
12:08 PM
Although this is not incorrect in any way it is quite basic.
Sometimes that is all you need.
Other times you want a bit more. You can try some of the following alternative methods.
use the lasso to create a vague surround instead of the elipse. Then repeat feathering actions.
paint bucket black after inverting the selection so you only get the outer part.
Apply soft or hardlight as a blending method then adjust opacity to wherever it looks right.
You can also duplicate the image layer and use a small guassian blur – around 5px would suffice. And then mask it with the vignette layer.
Thas add a reduced definition under the shading increasing the appeal of the image effect.
2:03 PM
Thanks for the comment, Avangelist. This one was purposely filed under ‘Basics’ at the request of one of my readers, a completely new Photoshop user who wanted the fastest, simplest way to create such an effect. However, you list some great ways to achieve a more advanced version!
7:24 PM
Vignettes are a great technique to add more drama to your photos. This is a really nice tutorial, definitely something for beginners to practice and learn. Thanks for posting this! Excellent work as always!
12:37 PM
Great tut! I find a realistic vignette on a color photograph can be slightly trickier to get right
http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2009/04/real-vs-fake-ph.html
4:17 AM
one of the ways, but much faster is to actually add vignete with lens correction :)
10:02 PM
Cite the exact studies and science that ever claimed different. ,
11:56 PM
Thanks very much
8:59 PM
it’s nice tutorial. I have just one comment . If u just adjust Megan Fox her her portrait I mean if you add a new layer and if you used Color Dodge or Color Burn and u reduced the opacity to 35% sure you will have a great result.. Anyway Nice tutorial ..
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