Digital BW, The Print

similarly you can use the circular gradient tool and do a darkening
"vignette" in one fell swoop. I personally would do it as a mask on an
adjustment layer, probably curves or levels. As such you can control the
degree of darkening through both the adjustment you make, and the layers
opacity control.

Todd

BTW, Mark Tucker, using adjustment layers may be for woosies, but you should
feel the rush of screwing one up and being able to correct it! Or trash it!

Do you keep an open bottle of fixer by your side to keep it real?  ;-)


> Hi:
> 
> I use the gradient tool for edge and corner burning. I think the correct
> setting is "foreground to transparent " with the forground color set to
> black. I set the opacity pretty low- 3 to 8%. Start the cursor at an
> edge or corner and drag into the image and release. Try different
> lenghts of dragging for controlling the gradation.