Something very silly

[rebel]

The tutorial link below helps people actually ADD vignetting...? At the end of the tutorial it says it makes your photo look more profesional? I think it makes it look ugly and unfinished

Go figure...

http://www.picturecorrect.com/photoshop ... orders.htm

[Raskill]

I agree, certainly the examples they use aren't good. Maybe it's got it place in some black and white portrait stuff, but not in a nice colour landscape.

weird.

[DaveB]

It doesn't suit all styles of image, but if done subtly it can help keep the viewer's attention within the frame. It's an old trick (burning the edges of the print) from the darkroom days.
At the other extreme though, having four dark corners on a sky image doesn't look "right"!

It just goes to show that there is no binary yes/no answer. Like so many things involved with our art the subtle choices we make can have a big impact on the final result, and sometimes a "flaw" is in fact a benefit (if done effectively).

[Michael]

A girl came to our photo club once who was studying the diploma of photography at tafe, and she gave a sort of exibition of her work on the night and nearly every single photo had vignetting in it.

And still most photos I see of hers has some sort of vignetting in it.

quite amazing, It must be a preference in taste.

[PiroStitch]

That's not the greatest way of applying vignetting. If you want it to be more uniform, use the circular marquee, inverse the selection, feather the selection then fill it in black. Afterwards, change the opacity of the "vignetting" layer so that it's not too bold.

Agreed with the rest of the comments that only in some images where vignetting looks tops, other times, it looks really average.