Working with Lightroom 3 Vignettes

For this tutorial we take a look at how the Post-Crop Vignette feature in Lightroom 3 helps us to add a bit of style to the image, but more importantly, it also helps to direct the viewer’s focus towards the central regions of a photograph, when that effect suits our purposes. It’s not uncommon even after a bit of retouching that relatively bright areas around the edge of the frame can pull our attention from the main subject; this feature is a great way to handle that problem.

It’s quite an intuitive and efficient process once you get the hang of it, and can help you to add that “final touch” to some of your best shots.

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Dan Moughamian wrote 26 articles on this blog.

Dan Moughamian is an experienced photographer and educator, and has worked with Adobe Photoshop since the early 1990s. He also has extensive experience with Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, plugins from Nik software, and many other digital imaging products. As a long-time member of their testing programs, Dan has collaborated with Adobe Systems to help enhance many of the core functions in Photoshop, Lightroom, and Elements. As an educator, Dan's focus is to help photographers at all levels get the most from their digital workflows. Tips on raw editing, layer masking, alpha channels, image adjustments, HDR photography, focus and lighting effects, and perspective correction, are just a few examples of the topics he covers. To learn more, you can visit Colortrails.com

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