Vignette Examples
Fig. 1. Before
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Fig. 2. After
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Make an Oval Selection
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Select the Marquee Tool in the upper left
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Choose the Oval option in the option bar (this is really
an ellipse)
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Position the mouse a little left and below of his left elbow.
Then hold down the left mouse button and drag out an oval that covers his
body.
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When you release the mouse button, you have made a selection,
as shown in Figure 3 below.
Fig. 3 Oval selection using the Marquee tool
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Optionally, you can save this selection by Select > Save
Selection, then give it a name. You can Load that selection later
if you want to.
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Select > Inverse inverts the selection so that everything
except what is inside the oval is now selected. The "inverse" is
the "complement" of the previously selected set.
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Select > Feather and then input a fairly large number.
I used 80 on this 2MP image. If this were a 5PM image I would have
used a number in the 100 to 200 range for this effect.
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Change the "Background Color" to a color of your choice.
Skip this step if you already have the proper color.
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At the bottom of the toolbar, there are 2 large rectangles.
Click on the lower one to change the background color.
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Either interactively select a color of your choice or type
in RGB values. In this example, I simply typed in 256 for Red, Green
and Blue to obtain White.
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Click OK.
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If you now click on the Backspace or Delete key on your keyboard,
you will now replace the selected area with the background. Since
we set the Feather to a large number, there is a good sided transition
before the white.
If you want a larger or smaller transition to the background
color, click the StepBackwards button one time in order to get to the point
right before the previous step 5. Change the Feather size to a smaller
or larger number, then repeat the final step of Deleting the selected area
to reveal the background.
If you choose a different background color in step 4,
for example gray, you will get a result like that shown below in Fig. 4.
Fig. 4 Vignette with gray background
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Fig. 5. Vignette with Gaussian Blur
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In order to get the blurred vignette shown in Fig. 5,
you do all of the steps listed above up to and including step 3. (You do
not use a background color and delete the selection.) After step
3 above, you then do the following:
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Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.
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Slide the Radius to something fairly large. In this
example, I set the radius to be 25.
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Click OK
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