Making Effective Vignettes
Matt shows you how to add an easy, yet effective vignette to your images.
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Related Tags: blend modes, vignettes
Vickey
May 5, 2010 at 4:38 pm
This really improved my shots! I was surprised, however, when I printed a couple of my photos — they were very dark, much darker then they appeared on my computer.
Thanks for the tip!
Mike
May 7, 2010 at 12:51 pm
very, very good!
Jay
May 12, 2010 at 8:21 am
Quick, subtle and effective. Will try it today. Thanks.
jose
May 13, 2010 at 1:00 pm
I love it, I’m going to try it on some of my dark shadow photo.Thank for the tip Matt
Bonnie
May 24, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Thanx for the tip! It’s simple and effective!
Joseph
June 30, 2010 at 9:05 am
Very good tutorial.
ruth
July 18, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I tried it and it has helped a great deal. However, even though I lower the opacity I still see a circle around the area I lightened.
Carla J
August 19, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Love it, love it. Just improves the photo so much, and is so simple!
Laton J
November 17, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Great way to make a photo pop.
Alfred
January 26, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Once again Matt has explained a lovely effect in a simple manner that even I can understand, and follow….wunnerful, wunnerful man
Greg
July 29, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Love it! I think I will be using this one quite a bit.
Gerald
August 5, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Matt:
Think your vignette technique is super. It is: a) effective, b) really easy to implement.
I returned to some Xmas photos & vignetted them; wow, what a different. Sweet!
Thanks, Gerald.
Jo
September 30, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Lovely tutorial and terrific effect, but like Ruth even when I lower the opacity my eraser leaves large, obvious circles. Not sure what I’m doing wrong?
Rick
September 30, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Try using one of the Eraser brushes with the soft edges, Jo — that, with the reduced opacity, should make it easier.
You might know that the bracket keys ([ and ]) will make the brush size bigger and smaller. If you use Shift-[ or Shift-], it increases or decreases the softness of the brush edge.
Rick
Jo
September 30, 2011 at 11:01 pm
Oh that worked a treat! I had a hard edged brush. Thanks also for the tip about the bracket keys, a big time saver. Thank you :)