Comments on: Video – Vignetting and Edge Darkening

By: Kelaidis Antonis

Kelaidis Antonis — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:07:53 +0000

Ok here re my thoughts

If you wanna selective edge darkenin in Lr
with YOUR darkenin preferences contrast, color etc
make 2 gradients with same characteristics
one from top to down
other from bottop to top
What u have made is one non degrade filter from 2 opposite degrades…
… with for example… -2 exposure,+30 contrast, ……

The second step is brushing in the center with a big Brush SELECTIVELY , in +2 Exposure, -30 contrast,
What u made is balancing selectively the 2 filters above in the center (or elsewher) developing an edge effect

You can save it as preset…

Bye from Greece

By: b clockmaker

b clockmaker — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:08:32 +0000

i just noticed this one today…

darn, and i was hoping for a fix / workaround.

oh well, thanks!

By: jaren

jaren — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:59:34 +0000

thanks for the sharing. it’s useful information for beginner like me.

By: tash

tash — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:04:49 +0000

hi matt,

I’m only an amateur photographer. I don’t even know what lens correction is, but stumbled on it when learning to use lightroom and the vignette sliders, and it didn’t take me long to work out what is more asthetically appealing to the eye, and gives a more natural result, def lens correction, though thankyou for pointing this out!

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:15:07 +0000

Matt,
You mentioned how you dup the layer in ps and set blending mode to multiply then brush out. Well… I’m not sure if this is helpful or not, but I take the selection tool, select the subject, select inverse, refine edge, Ctrl J, set to multiply, and then tweek the opacity.

Hopefully that saves time w/ your brush by trying to make all edges look even.

Post crop NOR lens correction gives you this amount of control at all given sometimes the subject isn’t smack in the middle.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:02:14 +0000

duh,
make that “post crop blows”

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:58:46 +0000

thanks matt,
i’m glad i kept your first set of presets.

lens correction blows!!!

By: Jaap @ Holland

Jaap @ Holland — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:12:49 +0000

Thanx. What a difference. I’ll immediately stop that post-crop now I’ve seen the difference.
The only thing you can you post crop for, is when part of the effect may be some desaturation. So for your beach photo, you’re right, but in a foggy city street I can imagine the post crop will work.
For sure the LR guys will follow your site closely and I would bet that next update we’ll get a solution for this ‘black curtains’.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:06:36 +0000

Matt,

Jack Davis has recently addressed and explained this issue with his new Lightroom video tutorial on Kelby Training….check out the lesson titled “Global Optimizing: Part 3 Post Crop Vignettes. Jack basically explains that Lens Correction was designed as a dodge and burn to assist in creating a consistent exposure across the entire photo. When photographers asked for a way to create a vignette on cropped photos Adobe created the Post Crop feature that basically adds black and/or white paint. I don’t like the post crop feature as well and your suggestion of Photoshop and blending modes is a much better way to achieve this with cropped photos. In his tutorial Jack mentioned that Adobe will be addressing (or he hopes so) this issue in future Lightroom releases. Hope this helps.

Jeff

By: KennyD

KennyD — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:05:48 +0000

Hi Matt – great tip as always and thanks for all you do. One thought on this – should you adjust your “Updated Auto Fix” presets from January 13? I believe they use post-crop vignettes. I use those presets but have updated them to remove the post-crop vignette (I found I was usually removing it anyway manually, so finally got around to updating my preset).