Comments on: How to Vignette a Photo

By: Amro

Amro — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:59:02 +0000

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 ..

By: John

John — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:56:57 +0000

Thanks very much

By: Boy91

Boy91 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:02:13 +0000

Cite the exact studies and science that ever claimed different. ,

By: bne

bne — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:17:37 +0000

one of the ways, but much faster is to actually add vignete with lens correction :)

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:37:00 +0000

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

By: Business Cards

Business Cards — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:24:16 +0000

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!

By: Allison House

Allison House — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:03:11 +0000

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!

By: Avangelist

Avangelist — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:08:19 +0000

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.

By: hussain

hussain — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:35:45 +0000

thank you so much i will try it on my email signture http://www.photoshopna.com