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Photo Tip – How to make a simple vignette!

Posted on August 8, 2008May 8, 2017 by Jaime

For those of you that love playing around in photoshop. Here is a simple step you can do to enhance your photos main focus. It really makes your photos pop.

This should work in most Photoshops. If not email me and I will see if I can help you out.

1. Open photo in PS.
2. Duplicate the layer.
3. Set your current layer to Multiply, should be at 100%.
4. Take the Elliptical Marquee tool, place an oval around the part of the image you want to be lighter.
5. Right click on the photo and chose Feather.
6. Set the feather to 200 pixels.
7. Hit the delete button.
8. Then Flatten your Image.

BEFORE

You can do this on any photo you want. It obviously will not work on a background that is already black. I mostly love using it for outdoor photos. It gives the picture a nice rich look to it.

AFTER

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4 thoughts on “Photo Tip – How to make a simple vignette!”

  1. anajz says:
    August 14, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Thanks so much for sharing these simple directions. What a world of difference!

  2. Queen to my 3 Boys says:
    August 12, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    Great tip – thanks!

  3. Drea says:
    August 10, 2008 at 12:40 am

    I did this and love it. used it on todays photos I took.

  4. Lis says:
    August 9, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    I wish I had PhotoShop, those look great.

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