Vignette technique problems(PSE 6.0)

I have been trying to figure out how to do some vignetting on photos. I have read a few tutorials, but all of my tries have come up very short. Every time that I try to do a vignette, it ends up looking like a square on the edge of my pictures. I am wanting it to be more rounded and "fade" into the picture. I have tried using a gaussion blur, but even with the levels set very high have had no success. I am using PSE, so I am wondering if that is part of the problem since I cannot create a "curves" adjustment layer, but am forced to work with the "levels" layer. Here is an example:

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No suggestions? A link or some experience from a photoshop elements user would be great.

A quick Google search turned this up-

http://www.ehow.com …e-vignette-photoshop.html

It shows 2 techniques that should work for you

It looks like you are not fading the effect. It is not supposed to be a hard edge like that. The inner edge is supposed to fade out. There are free actions that you can get to do it for you.

I have some from here....http://coffeeteaphotog​raphy.blogspot.com …ents-pse-actions-and.html

In elements 6 all I do is use the correct camera distortion under filters works ok for me

40Driggs wrote in post #6500453
No suggestions? A link or some experience from a photoshop elements user would be great.

How I usually make vignettes:

1. Open a hue/sat adjustment layer and pull the lightness down to -50 or so (you can re-adjust this later if you like).

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