Vignette - help?

Hi,

been playing around with Vignette's at the moment and cant quite get my head around something... it's one of those simple things that bug you loads!

Okay, say you have a portrait.

In CS2, you only have 1 layer, the 'background' layer.

What I normally do is:

Lasso around the subject.
Adjust feathering to 250px.
Invert the selection.
Copy and paste the selection to a new layer.
Adjust Brightness and Contrast, Saturation and Gaussian Blur.

Done.

The only problem is, I want to use adj. layers instead, so that I can adjust the vignette afterwards if I decide it's too dark, too light etc...

Anyone got any ideas?

One I thought of, is saving the selection and the adding a layer-mask to each of the adj. layers - which should then use the selection as a layer mask.

Layer opacity to control the strength of the vignette. Link to my vignette technique in my sig.

Do the same 'lassoing', then make a curves or levels *adjustment layer*

Rene, I have tried that, but... when adding an adj. layer it controls everything below it... hence; it would adjust everything, and not just the new layer with the vignette on it.

Did you read my post at all? I gave you the solution.

tim wrote in post #3181933
Did you read my post at all? I gave you the solution.

I'm sorry did you say something?

While Tims method is one way, you can group an adjustment layer to a layer, by alt-clicking between the two...

René Damkot wrote in post #3182055
While Tims method is one way, you can group an adjustment layer to a layer, by alt-clicking between the two...

Hey that's kinda helpful.

Never knew you could do that.

Tim, I did read your reply, but the issue is with your method is that when applying more than one edit (such as brightness, saturation and blur) it doesnt allow you to adjust each one seperately, if you wanted to change it later on.

I sort of found the solution now....

I lasso as normal.
Feather as normal (250px)
Then instead of inverting, I use the selectection I made, copy and paste into a new layer
Then use the adj. layers below the new layer.

i have to try that, i keep getting confused about this vignette thing

i tried to follow tim's as its pretty cool vignette he has, but i can never get it to work somehow! grrr!!