Vignetting

[Rozzy]

Could anybody give me a heads up on how to add a vignette to an image?

I have searched but can't find much.

Cheers in advance

[Whittie]

What software are you using mate?

Photoshop?

[Rozzy]

yeah

[Whittie]

Step 1: Open file

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/6742/vigenetting.jpg

Step two: Select Lens Correction

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/6742/Untitled.jpg

Step Three: Add how much you would like

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/6742/Untitled2.jpg

Step four: Done

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/6742/Untitled3.jpg

[Rozzy]

Fantastic mate, thank you very much. I really appreciate you taking the time to do that.

[Techno-Geek]

Ah awesome stuff Whittie. Must try that sometime :thumbs:

Tony

[Whittie]

No problem :)

[Techno-Geek]

Ahh i am not using CS3 :lol:

Won't work for me :( DAM :lol:

[Chris Green]

This is how I do it, using Photoshop Elements (version 1! how old!).

Sorry, I know I'm rubbish at explaining things.

1. select the Elliptical Marquee tool.

2. sketch the ellipse, starting from the top left of the image, and dragging down to the bottom right corner.

3. Right click in the middle of the ellipse. Click "Select Inverse".

4. Right click, anywhere on the image, and go to feather.

5. Select a feather of 200 pixels or so. This depends on the image size really.

6. Go to "enhance", then "Brightness / Contrast" then levels. (i think this is different in the other versions of photoshop, basically, you want to adjust levels).

7. Drag the left hand slider of the levels chart towards the right slightly. you'll start to see the vignette in the preview.

And thats it!

Hope this helps,

Chris.

[Bulletraptor]

Great Alex,

Cheers!

[tarmac_chaser]

It's also an option in Lightroom under the Develop options

[swanseamale47]

One small point in CS3 after the lens correction vignette you will need to flatten the layer if you want to save as a jpeg. Wayne

[Betty]

Only just spotted this, genius! Thanks everyone :thumbs: