How to darken the edges of a photo! Help needed soon!?

Question

How do you darken the edges of a photo. Like, if my picture has a white background, how do I make it so that the picture has a soft, darker border? I have picasa and photoshop elements by the way.

Answer 1

Easy. In Photoshop Elements: Open the photo and duplicate (we never work on the original). Click on Filter up in the Main Menu. Scroll down to Correct Camera Distortion. In the dialog (window) that opens, in the Vignette section, notice that moving the Amount slider to the left darkens. Moving the Midpoint slider determines how wide or narrow the dark area is. After you click OK, if you want the vignette darker, do it again. Be sure to use File>Save As and give your vignetted photo a different name (My Photo renamed to My Photo 2) so you don't overwrite the original photo and destroy it.

Answer 2

That's called a vignette. If you have Photoshop, then you pretty much take the elliptical marquee tool and make a circle, refine edge, add a new layer, select paint bucket tool (black), select inverse, and click the selection. Then it should turn out how you want it. If you want it less black, just lower the opacity.

Answer 3

You could do this in a darkroom but on photoshop you're best bet is to use burn and use a very low to begin with strength of brush and go around until you're happy with the amount being used

Answer 4

You could try using feather or burn tool on photoshop! goodluck

Answer 5

Go to picnik.com and use the Vignette editing tool, it is very simple.



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Answer 6

should definitely try picnic.com,, its the best place to edit pics

Answer 7

www.picnix.com