Quick Question for you Photoshop Pros

[drbryan]

Hi,

I'm sorry if there is another section about this already, but i did a portrait shot yesterday of my girlfriend and i would like to add that black kinda see thruish boreder to the corners and lightly on the edge. I'm pretty sure you can do it in photoshop but i dont know what its called, and i just downloaded the photoshop trial, and ive never used photo shop before.

if theres any photoshop tutorials on here that would be great i looked but i couldnt find any,

any help would be greatly appreciated! and i can post the picture after

Thanks

[Niresangwa]

Originally Posted by drbryan

Hi,

I'm sorry if there is another section about this already, but i did a portrait shot yesterday of my girlfriend and i would like to add that black kinda see thruish boreder to the corners and lightly on the edge. I'm pretty sure you can do it in photoshop but i dont know what its called, and i just downloaded the photoshop trial, and ive never used photo shop before.

if theres any photoshop tutorials on here that would be great i looked but i couldnt find any,

any help would be greatly appreciated! and i can post the picture after

Thanks

It's called a vignette.

Plenty of tutorials on youtube that will be much easier to follow.

For the love of God though, be gentle with it.

[drbryan]

oh my god im dumb i never even thought of youtube, thanks

what do you mean by be gentle

[Niresangwa]

Originally Posted by drbryan

oh my god im dumb i never even thought of youtube, thanks

what do you mean by be gentle

Of the many post-production effects, vignetting suffers handily from being over done. Use it to gently close down the corners and draw the viewer into the subject... if it looks like you're viewing it through a toilet roll tube, you've gone too far.

Many fail to exercise the self-control to avoid this, resulting in others getting their knickers in a twist.

Save yourself, and others, by being gentle with the vignette.

[drbryan]

thanks for the help heres the photo what do you think


IMG_12279 by drbryan1, on Flickr

[Doug Sundseth]

That's a pretty heavy-handed vignette. For me, at least, it draws attention to itself and away from the subject.

Nice backlit hair highlights, btw, but the face looks underexposed and it looks like you have white balance issues.

[lerabu]

I agree with Doug above. I would go lighter on the vignette, you may want to warm-up the picture a little.

In these situations it is a good idea to use flash so that you can expose the areas of the subject that aren't lit by the sun. This can be corrected for in PS/Lightroom where you can selectively either increase the exposure value of your selection or by adding some fill light digitally.

Otherwise this makes for a really nice shot

[Niresangwa]

Originally Posted by drbryan

thanks for the help heres the photo what do you think


IMG_12279 by drbryan1, on Flickr

I kind of like this shot... while it deserves to be in the critique section, i dont think there's much harm in a few comments...

As to the vignette, i don't mind it in three of the four corners.. the bottom right, its a little heavy handed, but in the other three, it does what it says on the tin, so to speak.

Overall, the shot is a little cool, i'd like to see the exposure brought up a little and see it warmed up some, but the composition is nice, and though she looks freezing, its a nice image, and i especially like how you placed the back light behind her, which gives good separation and really saves the shot from becoming too flat...

Nice job