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vignette

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:10 pm
by teresa1016
How do I apply a white vignette to a photo in photoshop elements 9? My computer is windows. In the guided section under create a lomo effect there is a tab that says apply vignette but it is black. I would like to do the same but in white.

Re: vignette

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:21 pm
by ladybug
hi teresa, i do not have nine but perhaps the color of your vignette depends on your foreground color try switching the colors before you do the vignette.

Re: vignette

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:42 pm
by Rusty
I'm not sure if this is want you want or not. I am thinking of black and white as really another way to say a dark vignette as opposed to a light vignette. In this example I put a blank layer on top and filled with 50% Gray; changed the blend mode to Overlay.

If you paint on the left-side of the image with black you get a dark vignette; if you paint on the right-side with white you get a light vignette. (do your painting with the brush set around 22-25% opacity and use multiple strokes to build up to what you want)
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Welcome to the forum.

Rusty

Re: vignette

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:52 pm
by lruther1
What I did was create a new blank layer above my pic and filled it with white. Added a layer mask and used the black to white gradient tool set on radial and experimented with drawing from the center out.
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Re: vignette

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:47 am
by mtbspike
This is one way you can do it:

Choose the rectangular marque tool. On the menu bar put in a feather amount. The higher the number, the larger and more gradual your vignette fade will be. I often use about 100 pixels for my photos.

Draw a rectangle on your photo, however far in you want your vignette to be. Choose Select Inverse. (Shift Ctlr I)

Choose Layer > New > Layer Via copy (Ctrl J). Now you've got a vignette in a new layer. You're not done yet...

In the layers pallette Ctrl Click on the vignette layer thumbnail itself to get the marching ants around the vignette. Choose Edit > Fill Selection, Use White.

Is that what you're hoping for?

Courtney

Re: vignette

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:44 pm
by teresa1016
This is what I am looking for. Thanks! I will try these ideas tonight!

Re: vignette

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:42 am
by ladybug
teresa looking forward to seeing your creation.

Re: vignette

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:57 am
by teresa1016
Can't get it to stay on the rectangle. I selected the rectangle tool and drew my rectangle around the picture. When I released the mosse button, it converted to an oval. Why did it do that? I have tried several times.

Re: vignette

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:42 am
by Rusty
Courtney told you ... Choose the rectangular marque tool. On the menu bar put in a feather amount. The higher the number, the larger and more gradual your vignette fade will be. I often use about 100 pixels for my photos.

When you select a feather amount, that's going to round the corners of the rectangle. And, you want that to happen for it to look like a vignette. The higher the "feather number", the more it is going to round the corners. If you are working with a relatively low resolution image, then a suggested feather of 100 px may be too high; it sure will look like an oval.

If I am working with an image out of my camera cropped at, say, 4 x 6, that image has a resolution of over 600 px and I will use a feather amount greater than 100.

Try it again. Look in the lower left corner of your edit screen to see what is the resolution of your image.
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For starters, use a feather number that is about 1/4th of that number. In this case: 300 / 4 = 75. See what that looks like with the feather set at "75". You can always delete the created layer and try it again with a different feather number, greater or smaller, and just keep doing that until you get one you like.

Rusty

Re: vignette

PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:59 pm
by teresa1016
Got it! Thanks!