From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
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Adding a vignette
From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
Adding a vignette
- Another option that often happens in camera is the ability to create a vignette. A vignette tends to darken or brighten the edges to help guide focus. Let me show you how you can do this easily. First up, I would suggest that you take the crop tool and crop to the targeted aspect ratio or resolution. This will then allow you to put this at the right position on the object itself. I like this crop here and I'll click return. Let's just move these so our folks are just a little bite more at the cross section for the rule of thirds, and I'll apply. Now, I can choose filter, camera raw. Now, remember, if you want to work non-destructively, you can convert for smart filters first, but I'll just finish this out, working destructively and saving a copy. Now you'll notice when I did this, it didn't quite work as expected. It's showing me the whole image. Well, that's because of how I cropped. Let's press C for crop here and what you'll notice is that, with the crop tool active, it didn't…
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