How to do a vignette

SpaghettiOs · 8 Aug 2007 at 13:04

Hi all,

I've been trying to find out how to get a good looking vignette in Photoshop. Can anyone tell me a good method or give me a good action to use?

Cheers,
gamer

caeteez · 8 Aug 2007 at 13:33

I normally pull an ellipse selection across the span of the image and invert the selection with a feather of around 150px. Then I fill the layer black, and adjust the opacity as I see fit.

Helium_Junkie · 8 Aug 2007 at 14:06

Pretty much the same method I used.

alexisonfire · 8 Aug 2007 at 14:11

Pretty much the exact same way here as well.

SpaghettiOs · 8 Aug 2007 at 14:12

Thanks for the help all.

martinturner · 8 Aug 2007 at 14:13

I would draw a circle around the area I want focus on, then right click and select inverse/invert selection. Then I would apply an adjusment layer 'levels' and then just drag the middle 'triangle' to the right, you can see the adjustment live.

Arsey · 8 Aug 2007 at 14:34

I'm trying this and when I draw the ellipse with the ellipse tool it doesn't come up with "Invert Selection" if I right click. Also if I try to fill it it just fills the whole image with black. Can anybody help?

Mohain · 8 Aug 2007 at 14:45

Or fliter>distort>lens correction>vignette

SpaghettiOs · 8 Aug 2007 at 14:46

Your using the ellipse drawing tool, you want the elliptical marquee tool which is under the rectangular marquee (the dashed rectangle, top left in the tools).

Make a selection and hit Ctrl+Shift+I to invert it (if i remember correctly).

Rich · 8 Aug 2007 at 15:35

Mohain said:
Or fliter>distort>lens correction>vignette

What he said

martinturner · 8 Aug 2007 at 16:02

Depends on version of Photoshop you are using CS is different to CS2.

Here is a little guide for a technique called Lomography, part of the process is to create a vignette effect.

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/lomography.html

Scam · 8 Aug 2007 at 17:11

Mohain said:
Or fliter>distort>lens correction>vignette

Or do the other method but dont draw an exact elipse. You'll get better results if you draw a rough-ish shape using the lasso tool and then use levels to darken the image. As opposed to filling it with black.

martinturner · 8 Aug 2007 at 17:15

Scam said:
Or do the other method but dont draw an exact elipse. You'll get better results if you draw a rough-ish shape using the lasso tool and then use levels to darken the image. As opposed to filling it with black.

Thats how I do it.