Vignette in photoshop

· First you want to grab your correct style marquee.

· Next you want to drag a marquee and create the marching ants. You do want to make sure the marquee is slightly inside your image and set it where you want the vignette to begin in your photo or graphic.

· You then want to choose select on the toolbar at the top, then chose invert. This reverses the marquee.

· The second step is to right click on the marquee of the image and press feather. This brings another marquee onto the picture plane as curved shape.

· The last step is to go to Image, Adjustments, and Levels. Then take the slider toward the bottom all the way from white to black. Press enter, then command D for deselect.

· To do this for a graphic you follow the same steps, only you add a curve layer and that layer is the one you work from.

o Another way to do a vignette is to first pull up a photo, open the layers, go to curves, drag the blacks (at the bottom of the graph) over quite a ways, then drag the line down a bit (darkness doesn’t really matter. Then go to gradient and select it from dark to light, can do circular ellipse (shape of your choice), then you are just going to click in the middle of the area you want to have the “spotlight” on and drag it out. You can do it in the corner, middle, etc.