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Inspiring
April 26, 2011
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P: Off-Centre Vignettes

  • April 26, 2011
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How can I create a vignette where the centre of the brightest part of the image is not in the centre of the frame?

28 replies

Known Participant
May 26, 2011
That's a reasonable mechanism, though I think it would be even better to just be able to click the desired center point right on the image.
Inspiring
May 26, 2011
X & Y axis sliders for controlling the centre point of the vignette.
Post Crop Vignette is great now...but this is all that is missing I believe.

areohbee
Legend
May 17, 2011
Roland S,

Was this really just a question?, or should it be a Feature-Request/"Idea"???

Rob
areohbee
Legend
May 16, 2011
You can also paint the edges with exposure and/or brightness for custom vignetting.

Notes:
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Painting with negative exposure creates a "paint overlay" effect (knocks all tones down).

Painting with negative brightness creates a more "highlight priority" effect (knocks dark tones down more than light tones).

You can also play with contrast but it may be enough to just try to balance exposure and brightness.

Hint: Desaturate a smidge if necessary...

Consider adding off-center vignettes as an "Idea" since there is no automatic way of doing it in Lightroom now.
Inspiring
April 30, 2011
Alternatively, brush over the whole image with a 100% (and negative exposure) and then use the "Eraser" brush to remove the effect where you need it (big eraser brush with large feather).
Known Participant
April 27, 2011
Perhaps the closets you can come today is to darken the entire image (drop Exposure or Brightness), then go into Adjustment Brush, make your brush really big with feather set to 100, Exposure or Brightness set to compensate for the earlier adjustment, and click once (without dragging) wherever you want the center to be.
Sean H [Seattle branch]
Known Participant
April 26, 2011
They'd have to add this as a feature, sorta along the same lines as the adjustment brush where you click to center the vignette then adjust the parameters, click 'new' to add another and so on...
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Sean H [Seattle branch]
Known Participant
April 26, 2011
They'd have to add this as a feature, sorta along the same lines as the adjustment brush where you click to center the vignette then adjust the parameters, click 'new' to add another and so on...
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