Vignetting

[ctp93]

Ok..I still suck at this. I am trying to do the subtle vignette look that I see people like McKey doing.

I barley ave any Photoshop skills, so the coolest would be an action I can load and use?

But if somene can dumb it down enough, I might be able to follow the directions! ;)

Anyone? Know of a good action, or at least some simple directions to get me going?

Thanks!
Todd

[stargal01]

here's one real easy way to do it:
-on a new layer separate from your image, use the oval marquee tool to draw a large oval on your image. make sure 'feather' is set to something high, like 100 or so. play around with this number.
-hit ctrl+shift+I for 'inverse', which then selects the inverse of the oval (basically, it selects everything outside the oval)
-fill in the 'outside of the oval' area with black
-lower the opacity of this oval layer so that the vignette is subtle.

this is kind of a primitive way to do it, but you can change some of the factors (the size/position of the oval, the feather, the darkness of the opacity, etc.)

[stargal01]

another method:

-create a Curves adjustment layer (the adjustment layers can be found at the bottom of the layers palette, the half-black, half white circle, and select 'Curves')
-you'll see a line going from the bottom left corner to the top right corner, so drag the top right corner straight down to about 1/4 from the bottom right corner
-this will cause that layer to go very dark
-use a brush, black color, to 'paint' in the 'un-vignetted' area

again, play around with it to figure out how you want to use it.

[johnastovall]

Quick and simple, go to 'Filter' - 'Distort' - 'Lens Correction' and play with Vignetting tool. You can add vignetting was well as remove it.

[mivy00]

If you dont want a circle vignette and just want certian area's of a photograph darkened there is an action over at www.atncentral.com called Paint with Light .....It will allow you to paint shadows into your photo

I have also found that duplicating the background layer bluring it just a little then changing the layer from normal to multiply usally darkens it up pretty good then you can mask out the areas you dont want the darkness

[bluman95]

Originally Posted by johnastovall

Quick and simple, go to 'Filter' - 'Distort' - 'Lens Correction' and play with Vignetting tool. You can add vignetting was well as remove it.

That is how I do it. Works great.

[akimartymar]

I've been drawing around whatever I want to keep bright with the lasso tool. Then I invert the selection and feather to 250. I then go to the brightness slider and make the selection darker. It works well for me.

[taygull]

Originally Posted by akimartymar

I've been drawing around whatever I want to keep bright with the lasso tool. Then I invert the selection and feather to 250. I then go to the brightness slider and make the selection darker. It works well for me.

This is a very good way.

What you do need to do is find several ways to do this task. Sometimes I want all the background to be progressively darker to the image..or even lighter. Sometimes I want a traditional look where just the corners are darker.

I use the Lasso Tool and feather to 250, invert and then use the levels to darken.

I use the Distort, Lens Correction

I'll use Kubota actions

I'll use the oval tool....

Sometimes I just dodge and burn with a large brush with a very low hardness.

There are many ways..play around with all of the above and you will find you have more control