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Step Three:
Now, this works just fine, until you wind
up having to crop the photo, because
cropping will crop away the edge vignette.
To get around that problem, Adobe added
a control called “Post-Crop Vignetting,”
which lets you add vignetting effects
after you've cropped. I'm cropping that
same photo in tight here, and now most
of the edge vignetting I added earlier will
be cropped away. So, scroll down to the
Effects panel and at the top you'll see
Post-Crop Vignetting. Before we try that,
reset your Lens Vignetting Amount slider
to 0 (zero), so we don't add the post-crop
vignetting on top of the little bit of origi-
nal vignetting still in our photo.
Step Four:
Before we get to the sliders, let's talk
about the Style pop-up menu. You have
three choices: (1) Highlight Priority, (2)
Color Priority, and (3) Paint Overlay
(though the only one that really looks
good is Highlight Priority, so it's the only
one I ever use. The results are more like
what you get with the regular vignette.
The edges get darker, but the color may
shift a bit, and I'm totally okay with the
edges looking more saturated. This choice
gets its name from the fact that it tries
to keep as much of the highlights intact,
so if you have some bright areas around
the edges, it'll try to make sure they stay
bright). I made the edges pretty darn dark
here—darker than I would make mine,
but I wanted you to really see the effect
on the cropped image (just for example
purposes). The Color Priority style is
more concerned with keeping your color
accurate around the edges, so the edges
do get a bit darker, but the colors don't
get more saturated, and it's not as dark
(or nice) as the Highlight Priority style.
Finally, Paint Overlay gives you the look
we had back in Lightroom 2 for post-crop
vignetting, which just painted the edges
dark gray (yeech!).
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