For Christmas, I've taken a number of photographs of a friend's dogs and sort of collaged them together and added some text. I am pleased thus far except for one thing: so many edges. I think that a soft circular effect around the whole collage would add a lot to a photo. I'm not sure how to convey what I am after any better than "soft circular effect." You see it a lot in senior year photos. Sorry if this is vague. Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't have any decent photo-editing programs. Just Irfanview, Miscrosoft Picture Editor, and some program that came with my camera, which doesn't offer much.
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I can't help you with the programs you listed, because I don't know them or even know if they would do the trick. I suggest you go get a copy of The GIMP then quite a few of us can help you.
It's quite an easy effect with a decent editor. It involves making a circular selection, feathering that selection and usually a guassian blur.
Try this This tutorial may give ya a clue as to what you are trying. If you want a circular effect, just use a circular selection instead of a rectangular one.
I'm not too sure what you're talking about. Then again I think I've got an image of what you're trying to say.
Is this the effect you're talking about?
Are you talking about a circular effect like what I used in the Santa pics I took at school? It's really easy to create:
Duplicate your background layer. Select the center area of your image with the elliptical marquee, feather the selection quite a bit (I used 250 pixels), then invert the selection. Make a new fill layer (solid color, white). After you do that, select a very large, soft brush and choose black as your color, and paint over the center part of the shot that you want to NOT be vignetted. Takes just a few minutes and I like the results. PM me if you have any questions or if I was as clear as mud. ;)
Are you talking about a circular effect like what I used in the Santa pics I took at school? It's really easy to create:
Duplicate your background layer. Select the center area of your image with the elliptical marquee, feather the selection quite a bit (I used 250 pixels), then invert the selection. Make a new fill layer (solid color, white). After you do that, select a very large, soft brush and choose black as your color, and paint over the center part of the shot that you want to NOT be vignetted. Takes just a few minutes and I like the results. PM me if you have any questions or if I was as clear as mud. ;)
That's great and I appreciate you responding. However, I'm having some trouble with this. I was able to duplicate the background layer, feather the selection (I used 250 pixels too - by the way, does the fairly large resolution of this photograph affect how many pixels I should use for this?), and make a new fill layer with white as the color. However, I sort of got stuck with the painting over step.
I'm not too sure what you're talking about. Then again I think I've got an image of what you're trying to say.
Is this the effect you're talking about?
If it's not, then I apologise. My bad.
That's great, too. I would just like the black to fully expand into the corners, becoming more grainy and white in the process, but never becoming fully white. Hope that makes sense.
I'd make an oval selection and feather it, then invert the selection. Create a new layer and fill the selection with white. You could also use the same selection as a mask for an Adjustment layer (e.g. Curves) and fade back the original image -- the feathering will provide the vignette effect.
