Sometimes Cloudy in Virginia

I got this from a guest tutorial by Mark Riley over at PhotoWalkthrough.com.  I saw this just days after looking through my collection of Photoshop books looking for this very thing.  Anyway, the very easy steps to a simple vignette:

1. Create a new layer
2. Change the blending mode to ‘Soft Light’
3. Fill the layer with all black
   (Quick Photoshop keystrokes: ‘d’ for default color palette, ‘alt-del’ to fill with foreground color)
4. Select the eraser tool with a large, soft, circular brush
5. Erase the center of the black layer, leaving just a small region around the edges for the vignette
6. Reduce the opacity of the layer to tune the amount of vignetting applied

Go watch Mark in action in the tutorial video to see it done: PW86 – Tutorial 16 Chapter 2 – Urban Ugliness (mp4 video).  Very handy.  Works well in the Gimp, too.

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