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Rusty » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:59 pm
Gary, that's one of those
happy accidents and I've been experimenting to try to figure out what the heck happened so I can do it again.
I use a product named "PTLens" from a website: "ePaperPress". This does everything (and a little more) that the Correct Camera Distortion filter in PSE5 does and I find it easier to use and liked it enough to be a big spender and pop for fifteen bucks.
One thing about it, the settings are sticky. When the filter opens, the settings are whatever was there the last time you clicked OK. This is usually no big deal: you see exactly what is set and what it's doing to the image. There is also a "reset all" button that I normally click whenever the filter opened. But, for this image, after all my adjustments and the final crop, I went back to PTLens to apply a vignette. The vignette action is on a separate screen all by itself. When I clicked OK, it apparently reapplied whatever sticky action was on another screen.
I looked and thought, 'Wow, this is cool', so I added a black canvas border to better emphasize the shape. I'm still working on figuring out how to do it again
Rusty
PS - yeah, I could have told you it was carefully planned and a result of my great skill!
Byron
I don't make cookies often, since no one in my family can exercise any self control at all (including me. 
) when it comes to fresh homemade cookies.