How to vignette

[Gem]

I hope I spelled that right :o

I tried looking for tutorials online but was hard pressed to find one. Could someone please explain to me, how to do this? Thank you!

[casil403]

Do you mean vignette Gem? I know a vinaigrette as a salad dressing - 1 part vinegar to one part oil, w/ seasonings and flavour...

[Gem]

Do you mean vignette Gem? I know a vinaigrette as a salad dressing - 1 part vinegar to one part oil, w/ seasonings and flavour...

LOL, yes! I always think "vinaigrette" :rolleyes::laugh:

[Barefoot]

I hope I spelled that right :o

I tried looking for tutorials online but was hard pressed to find one. Could someone please explain to me, how to do this? Thank you!

No, but I can do the "Crouton Boogie". :clown:

Can't remember if you said you have PS or not, but it can be found in the filters of that app.

Hmmm, at least I thought it could. I just fired up PS7 and looked for it, but couldn't find it. Maybe I saw it in one of the sets of plug-ins I downloaded. I'll have to dig deeper.

[Ben H]

There are *loads* of ways to vignette in PS...

There is no "Vignette" filter, though.

[kat]

For me it's in

Filter - Distort - Lens Correction... hope that helps

[Barefoot]

I found it. I was looking on my laptop, when I should have been looking on an old desktop in another room.

It’s in a set of plug-ins from Xero.

http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/set4/softvignette.htm

[Marko]

In the darkroom this used to be done by holding an opaque material with a circle or oval cut out during the exposure.

You also achieve another version of vignetting just by burning the 4 sides of an image in the darkroom or in photoshop....or use an action - filter etc.

[edbayani11]

i hope this helps.

choose the eliptical marquee and while pressing the alt (option for macs) click on the center of the photo and drag until you've occupied the entire image except the four corners. you have now a selection and press Q to transform it into a quick mask. then choose gaussian blur and blur the mask until the edges are soft. press Q again to revert back to the selection. next pres shift + ctrl + i (shift + command + i for macs) to inverse the selection. then you can adjust with levels or curves to darken the four corners

[Gem]

Thanks, everyone. I'll give the eliptical marquee way a shot. :)

[jjeling]

Gem are you using Photoshop for your PP?

[Gem]

Nope. Using GIMP. I didn't think it would be much different....or is it?

[jjeling]

Not sure. Not familiar with GIMP. Do not even know what that is to be honest with you.

[Gem]

Oh. Well, it's similar to Photoshop (obviously not even close to the same capabilities) but it works well for small editing jobs. And most things seem to be similar to how you do it in Photoshop...

[Michael Van der Tol]

Here's my favorite.

Add a new layer to the top of your image. Fill it with 50% gray and change the blending mode of that layer to Overlay. Now use a soft-brush at 13% opacity (set you brush color to black for burning; white for dodging) and go at it.

I like this method because I can create a free form vignette as well as dodge and burn on the same layer...and most of all, if I don't like what I've done I can remove/delete the layer.