Comments on: Photoshop, Lightroom and Photoshop Elements: How do you Vignette?

By: Ulee

Ulee — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:11:33 +0000

Oh this is so great. Thanks for posting this. I had one of those “why didn’t I think of that” moment when I read the inner glow portion of the article.

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:22:51 +0000

As a follow up post to this tried and true method of sorting the truly creative from the uninspired gimmick abusers I suggest the next “lesson” be focused solely on the “lens flare” filter.

After that all that is missing is the post on the Tobacco and Soft Focus Cokin filters.

By: connie

connie — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:08:47 +0000

I use outerglow all the time but never thought to change the color to black and use it this way. I think it’s going to be me new favorite trick!

Thank you!

By: Stephanie Stewart

Stephanie Stewart — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:33:56 +0000

@Pete Morley

Thank you for the help! I will give this a try! Thanks again!

By: Pete Morley

Pete Morley — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:54:40 +0000

@Stephanie

Adjusting your levels will darken colours as opposed to masking them.

By: Stephanie Stewart

Stephanie Stewart — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:44:20 +0000

How do you do a color vignette? For example, if your sky is a light blue, I’ve seen where the corners are made a darker blue, rather than a black vignette. Thanks for your help?

By: Alastair

Alastair — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:27:15 +0000

As Melissa said, it’s highly advisable to use the camera correction vignetting rather than the post-crop in Lightroom 2. The camera correction darkens the colours beautifully, by underexposing and keeping the rich saturation. Post-crop just puts a mucky grey around everything. Matt Kloskowski has an good video on this difference here, which I discovered the other day:

http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2009/video-tip-the-truth-behind-vignetting-and-edge-darkening/

By: Pete Morley

Pete Morley — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:40:35 +0000

Just to throw another Photoshop method into the works, here’s what I do.

Select the Lasso tool set feathering between 85-100px and draw a very rough oval selection over your image.

Than cmd + Shift + i to invert your selection. Go to Layer > New adjustment layer > Levels and bring your white output levels down to around the 220-230 mark.

I find that using adjustment layers gives me much more control over the final image. As each layer can be tweaked. Using layer styles in PS will get you a square Vignette, which isn’t how the light would naturally behave through a lens.

By: Fletch

Fletch — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:39:37 +0000

The PSE method sugested here is bad. You will get a much more realistic effect if after selecting the whole area you first Modify>contract your selection, then feather by a very large ammount, say 250 px, then invert your selection and fill.

By: Danferno

Danferno — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:28:39 +0000

@ Amandalynn

Someone the photoshop options you can make the RAW window come up for JPGs as well.