Triple T Tuesday

Happy Tuesday Everyone! It’s time for another Triple T Tuesday tutorial for you. Have you ever seen one of those beautiful photos using a vignette (pronounced vin-yet) effect and wondered how you could do that yourself? Of course, you could go searching for an action to use on your photos, but it’s so easy to do, you should try it yourself! This tutorial is for Photoshop, but I’m sure it can be easily done in other photo editing software as well.

Here’s an example of a photo with a vignette effect:

and here’s the original:

Using a vignette effect, the image fades out toward the corners. It’s most commonly seen as a fade out to black, but white can also be used. The vignette can be a powerful element of a photo because it has the natural tendency to draw the eye toward the center of the photo. Let’s get started and see how you can create this great effect for your own photos.

Step 1: Open any image in Photoshop. It can be a black and white, color or sepia image. This effect can be beautiful on black and white or sepia.

Step 2: Create a new layer. Now select the Elliptical Marquee Tool. In the feather option, choose how much you want the vignette to be feathered away from the edge of your selection. You can choose any number up to 250. The higher the number, the more fade you will get. This is something you can play with to see what looks good for your photo. For my example below, I have used 250. Now create your circle, oval or rectangle marquee depending on what you want to highlight in your photo.

TIP: Remember that if your Marquee Tool didn’t put your circle, etc. exactly where you want it, you can move it by clicking inside the selection and moving it around. Also, if you want to make a perfect circle or square, hold down the shift key while dragging out the marquee.