Vignetting in PS 7

[Spinners]

I know you can do vignetting in PS 7, but i cannot seem to figure it out. Someone from this forum emailed me examples, but i lost the email!

The steps to do it would be great. And i know i need to get a book, but i like trial and error, except for when i get really stuck! you would think the help files would touch on this.

any help would be appreciated.

[Murf]

an easy way to do this is to make a selection with the rectangular or elliptical marquee tool and then expand the defalt actions in the actions palete. choose the vignettte action and run the action. it will ask for how much feathering you want. before you start, set your background colour( if you dont want white).

have fun

[Spinners]

oooooh thankies!

[DAMphyne]

This is the post I sent in answer to your question about vignetting, with a filter or in Photoshop.
Spinners,
I don't think PS has a vignette filter,(possibly a plug-in is available) but try this.
Use the round selection tool to get the shape of the vignette that you want, feather the selection (in the select drop down menu), try 8 or 10 for the feather number. Then , select inverse and fill the selection. this should give you a idea of what PS can do.
You can change the color of the vignette, increase or decrease the feather, even change the density of the vignette in the fill mode.
Sometimes I don't fill, just use a very high feather, then
go to the filter menu and do a Gausian Blur.
Always save-as, so you don't change your original file, you may want to try different styles and compare them side by side to get an idea of what looks good to you.
If you shoot with the vignette, it will always be on the photo, if you do it with your imagining program, you have more flexability.
Good luck, and have a good time.

Incidently, I tried the Lindahl montager on my 10D with the 50mm lens, the vignette filter is too large to cover the edges, I'm sure because of the smaller "film" size.

[DAMphyne]

Spinners, here are the samples I e-mailed you before.

http://www.damphyne.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Vignettes

[Spinners]

THANKS A BUNCH!!!

[Kellie]

I really like this little vignette... try it... its a burning vignette.

You can make this an action… Here are the instructions… just pull up a pic, grab the marquee tool and make a selection on the pic and push your “create new action” tab.



Then…..



Feather… Alt-Ctrl-D (125 or so?)



Select > Inverse> (Shift-Ctrl-I)



Make a copy of that selection (Ctrl J)



Now set the blending mode to multiply and adjust the opacity to your liking. Then push the stop recording button.



SOOOO -- in order…. After you select your marquee… all you do is ALT- CTRL- D, Shift – CTRL- I, Ctrl J, and end!!!!



Your gonna love it…. Looks great on almost anything that you want to burn the edges in a little. REALLY spiffs up a pic!!



Let me know how you like it.

Kel