Welcome back Fablers to another Academy video. In this one, we're going to be talking about the Vignette image effects.
You'll open up your canvas here. We've imported a standard JPEG image. We're going to go to the top right here to our effects window, and let's begin to type in vignette.
Once you see that we'll drag and drop. And now, our first caveat about this effect. This effect is dictated essentially by the bounding box of your layer. Bounding box being the exterior dimensions of your file. So in this case, if you notice let's turn up the amount here, you'll see that the vignette actually falls out of the space of the canvas.
If we bring this back down and shrink it, in this case this deforms our image, but now you can see the full vignette effect on our scene.
How do we get around that? Let's say you don't want to do that. You have your image file in here, the way that you wanted it to be. We can remove this vignette. Make sure you de-select your layer.
And now with your canvas being the only thing selected, let's type it in one more time. Click, drag, and drop. And you'll notice that now, we have a vignette that functions around the outside of our canvas, as we would expect it to.
We have three settings here. We've got amount, fall off, opacity, color and invert. So actually we have five settings.
In the amount, this is pretty straightforward. 0% is nothing. 100% is complete, pitch-black. Let's leave it at 100, just so it's easy to see what the next slider does.
Fall off. The lower it is the smoother this blending will become. You go to 100 and you get a straight hard cutout mask.
Opacity will turn down the intensity of the layer. This used in combination with the amount can give you some really fine control over the quality of your vignetting.
This next one here, this is our typical color palette. You can make your vignette be any color you'd like.
Lastly, you have the option to invert, which essentially will take the transparent part of your vignette and make that opaque and take the opaque part and make it transparent.
All in all, pretty cool rapid effects to get some cool vignetting effects on your scene.
