But vignetting can be done in white or any other color. The most usual, black.
I do vignette many of my photos. It adds an interest sometimes, or focuses the object, or even eliminates some disturbing elements!
The easiest way to vignette is, in Photoshop, using a filter. It is in filters > distort > Lens correction;
Then the menu for lens correction opens, you click on vignette and use the slide to go to black (left) or white (right) and also the amount of vignetting:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCrAtKMsU-9AnCcTss15OuJEq5BnUIKmVLSBc5oi9Id0I7Qb_VdQuPI5YZosaZX88NqA9YPgEVl8hAMkiPSkpAnqZn-tF_Y48zHkUZC2uNX3EbyueBr27dFgCDadSPm7P2lR2CMpnDGaOC/s200/web1.jpg)
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The result is this:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaxHvoRw8OgxM6Bywc21Ubm6hZQlYFD7YPYjKMErAkHY2dMS06YrW0552USXZIH5HqiE0WMldWWfyXoLFRSkb-DZ6EVxcZzYXZmJ_VsOOWevp2TArmXzCdPWV9Iw0kXhvLmJW3Pn1Cc5_m/s200/web3.jpg)
Not bad; but I usually want to have more control of the black space. Then I don't go to filters. What I do is the following:
First I create a new layer, then select the paint brush tool, but change the size to an exaggerated number, really big. Then paint just with the border, not the full brush; the center of the brush must be out of the border.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWB7mp_JdOCVRutocl4qmPhwTqPY4fmtXOj2yIYx1v1MqPrG0NihYKsH-m0MNL8mNcGuXEXD16GlqvC3O2fYEC7WeErKbGE8MWvJXkA6xos4BShSgqbhkeImfp5H5b-XkO22dY0KMhv8CX/s200/web4.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvx4yCs7ZtgZdG9V_xJ0iEZ6O2sBcqqC1pcCURJQgNmPL-YdOJJbWN666iYn-KY950Mos_WphTAPZKwhE78Ggo8b2yekYFvHQKxPnXbSY9UodnV6MAa3VqylBhg971GwXMf6okxHC_G5n/s200/web5.jpg)
Now you control the areas where you want the shadow to appear. And this way, though the layer opacity, you control the amount of vignette;
Then, there's only the last step: flatten your image, through layers > flatten layers.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPJSF29VFVUYzPkv_hlfTe-45Tv_99nyqqcownXnD8XodYaoC5HrprYjIR2MoeHYrv03FrqzYjJUBvZZopfIIqsbptMDyZATR-yeHvOYQGgDJFkD9KamXfKtAaN5Wp23FeC53NHWuJhryV/s200/web7.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_oSWAKeNg5lKSF1ahczkCm7PWD36qcl6Wqflhmdd6QqQA80Z2oCUM9iNFJdH2kH5CpLP6_JM-zDlRcSYB-ogKnZ8AJWy0oXEU18e8KcGs3G3C1pbX9004UTVhpVYeKyeSbj5A_JSE_uh7/s200/web8.jpg)
And here is the result:
Hope you like it.
Anyway, experiment, try new techniques, duplicate layers, compare, play with blend options...
Thanks for reading.