I get people asking me how I vignette photos easily in photoshop. Why would you want to vignette in the first place? Well, artist and painters have been doing it for hundreds of years to bring the eyes to certain parts/subjects of the paintings. This effect is also helpful in photography in bringing a person’s eyes to a certain part of the photograph. Most times this is a subtle effect but other times it isn’t meant to be. Just depends on the photo and your style. The following is going to be a quick and easy way to add vignettes to your photo. I’m not saying it’s the best or fastest or whatever. It’s just the way I do it.

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1. First open your picture. I picked possibly the worst example for this but here we go:

2. Create a new layer

3. Choose your Gradient tool. Make sure your colors are default black and white:

4. Make sure you’re set Transparent to Black:

5. Select Radial:

6. Click the center of the photo and drag all the way out:

7. That’s pretty much it. If you want to decrease the amount of your vignette you can lower it’s opacity. You can do that by selecting the layer you want to change, then reducing it’s opacity:

Hope that helps. It was my first tutorial ever… Hope this helps you make your very own vignettes.

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Oh yeah, I forgot Before and After images. Click to enlarge:

Before:

After: