Re: Image help please. selection and
where
I often use a similar technique to create a subtle "camera shadow,"
which used to occur in older cameras with lower quality lenses but
definitely can give you a mysterious quality. It's incredibly easy to do
this.
Create a new layer above your image, select all, feather 20 pixels (or
fewer, depending on the size of the image of course), invert the
selection, fill with black.
De-select, and change the layer blending mode to overlay (or experiment
with other modes, sometimes darken looks nice, too).
That won't give you a classic "vignette," but it's another technique for
fading the edges somewhat. Sometimes in older photographs the vignette
isn't dark, but is actually light. You could achieve this by using
grazer's selection technique, but then use the selection to create a
layer mask on an adjustment layer and play with lowering the saturation
and/or decreasing contrast with levels.
Just some ideas.
--
Aaron
"Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems
good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the
rest." -- John Stuart Mill
Aaron
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