From the course: Mastering Adobe Camera Raw

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Adding vignettes

Adding vignettes

- In order to guide the viewer's eye, we often take advantage of a custom vignette. This is usually done post-crop, and there are some important options. Let's go to this first image here, and I'll zoom out, and press the C key for crop. Because we did some perspective correction here, it auto-cropped a bit, but I'm going to tighten this up just a little bit more and use these rule of thirds guides to place my subject at the intersection point, and then press the Return key. Now, we've got a solid crop. From the Vignette category, I could start to drag, darkening the edge or brightening. I'm going to darken it here and start with it overdone. This is just so it's easier to see. Now if you look at this, you'll see some important controls. Is it going to change the highlights, affect the colors? Notice how it richend the blues there, or just sort of sit on top like a gentle overlay where it's just adding black on top of…

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