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One of Digital Photography for Mom’s wonderful readers asked how I created the vignette in this photograph:

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This photo was edited using Lightroom only.  It didn’t take Photoshop to create that edgy look, believe it or not!

Here are the Lightroom settings for the vignette:

  • Post-crop vignette
  • Amount -100
  • Midpoint 19
  • Roundness 0
  • Feather 50

Adobe Lightroom 2

I’ll post Lightroom presets next week for the vignette and the style, for those of you who are interested.

And, for those of you who don’t have Lightroom, this method from my post on 8 Ways to Vignette in Photoshop Elements will work for you:

  • Press  D to set your colors to Default black and white.
  • If black isn’t the foreground color, type X.
  • Use the Elliptical Marquee tool to select the central portion of your photo.  Hold down the shift key while selecting if you want a perfect circle rather than an oval.
  • Invert the selection by pressing Shift+Control+I.
  • Apply a large amount of feathering.  Start with something between 75-150 pixels.
  • Create a new layer and fill the selection with black by pressing Alt+Backspace.
  • If you wanted the darkened area larger or smaller, start over and change the size of your elliptical marquee.
  • If you want to control how the black fades, start over and add more or less feathering.

Coming up next week:

  • A revised Perfect Workflow free action for Photoshop Elements that doesn’t make a copy of your original file
  • Lightroom presets
  • And update on the Digital Photography for Moms contest for $150.  We just might do it!  Send everyone you can to DPM to sign up!

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  1. Stephanie says:

    I signed up for clickin moms username nsmorinville
    Thanks!!

  2. Michelle says:

    You TOTALLY ROCK! Thanks so much. I really needed this and I’m sure a lot of other readers found it helpful!!!

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