I am now going to show you how to add a professional looking vignette to the image. The rationale behind using a vignette in some scenes is that the human eye is naturally drawn to light colours, so by adding a vignette we will subconsciously draw the viewer's eyes inward - clever hey!?
Here are the steps:
1. Use the oval button to create an oval around the image.
2. Locate the "select" option from the menu bar and scroll down to "transform selection". We use this to center and adjust the shape of the mask. Once happy press enter.
3. Now to select the space between the oval and the border of the image, go back to "select", then scroll down to find "inverse".
4. Now on the right hand panel, click the histogram adjustment layer and slide the black point on the histogram to the right. Immediately you will see the space between the oval and the border darken.
5. Once you are happy with the darkness of the vignette, we need to make it look seamless. We do this by selecting the mask icon inside the histogram adjustment layer we have added. Then locate the slider called "feather" and slide it to the right. The higher the resolution of the image, the more to the right we slide it. Stop when you are happy with the result.
that is it... pretty cool hey!
Now the last step is to sharpen the image. Sharpening is always done last since it destroys pixels to do achieve sharpness. This will be covered in the next blog.
have fun! ☺
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