Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 3 Minutes
Today we’ve got a really nice and simple tutorial demonstrating how to quickly add a beautiful, non destructive vignette effect to any image using Photoshop layers and blending modes.
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Very nicely done! Simple yet very effective, great beginner tutorial for photographers using photoshop!
Really?!?
Why not use radial gradient?
Or if you shoot in RAW, and have the RAW plugin for photoshop, you can do it there within seconds also.
But I think this looks better to be honest.
Great tutorial, thanks!
In other words…
Create a gray to black radial gradient in a new layer and put its blending mode to soft light.
I just don’t see why that took 4 min…
I do a similar thing, but I’ll make a layer with 50% grey, then go to Filters -> Distort -> Lens Correction, then make a vignette by altering the vignette sliders in the middle. I like my way better b/c when you get to huge comps (US Letter @ 300ppi and larger) the largest brush you can use 2500px, which won’t cover the whole comp.
By using the Lens Correction filter, I can make a vignette that fits every comp perfectly! Try it out!
Cool tutorial with easy steps, great to beginner like me !!
Good tut but a little to basic for me, one of the first things u get to learn when u get into PS, but yeah i guess this is good for complete beginners.
Or U can use Filter->Distort->Lens Correction -> Vignette in Photoshop
good tut, a little slow but ya got there in the end
Why not just use the vignette setting under Filter<Distort<Lens Correction. You can set it on a white background and set the blending mode to multiply. Just another option i guess.
I find it much better to do the following:
- new layer
- change blending mode to soft light or overlay
- fill with %50 gray
- select brush
- drop opacity around %6 to %10
- paint with black where you want the vignette
it’s essentially the same concept. It just makes more sense to paint on where you want the vignette
simple but effective
The advertisement before the video is longer than the tut. Annoying as hell.
This tutorial is too simple to be in PSD tuts and also it’s a photography tutorial it should be on Photo tuts.
Moreover is much better duplicate the original image and then apply the vignette effect with the “Lens Correction” filter, and then if you would like to remove the effect in some area, you could use the erase on that layer.
Why you spend minutes to do a thing that takes just some seconds to do?
Please don’t get me wrong, but it’s just my opinion.
very useful
Doesn’t seem like the simplest
I don’t know about some of you but I like it. There’s always more than one way to do things and it doesn’t hurt to learn new ways to do the same thing and get the same result. You may even find it useful for a different project.
Phil,
Great tip. I am sure someone will find this useful. The beauty about PS is that you can do the same thing in many different ways. Phil is only showing one of them… I don’t understand what it is with all the haters here. If you don’t like it, go away, or even better, make a tutorial yourself and posted it here. Some of you need to grow up.
Rafa.
Great technique – quick easy and super effective, thanks…
great tut!! gives a really nice effect…I know there are other ways to do it but not sure why others are watching a tutorial when they know how to do it…yes, see other techniques however there is no need for negatives.
So much for “non-destructive”… As soon as you flattened, saved and closed the file, it became a permanent change.
This is a cool technique for a perfectly circular and graded vignette. Thanks!
i want to learn about photoshope and aftereffect.
cool and simple, thanks
very good!
how do you to make effect HDR?
you can help me, please;
Really nice!!
Thank you.
Thank you .
It’s very interested
why not use inner shadow with distance 0 and set the size, and put soft light?
more control….and i took the same time that i took to write how to do ahaha