How to make the halo effect?

The Halo (VIGNETTSS) effect refers to the edge effect of a soft gradient on an image. Using Photoshop to make the halo effect is very easy, and here's how to use Photoshop5.5 to make two kinds of halo effects of the image.

1. Elliptical halo Effect

1) using Photoshop5.5 to open a picture;

2 Select the elliptical Lasso tool in the tool bar;

(3) Using the Elliptical Lasso tool to select the desired part in the image;

(4) Execute the feather command under the Select menu and set the feather value to pixels;

5) Execute the inverse command under the Select menu or press the Ctrl+shift+i key combination to invert the selection area;

6 Set the background color, such as white.

7 Press del key with background color fill selection area, halo effect is formed.

2. Arbitrary shape of the halo effect

1 open a picture;

2) Press Q key to switch to the fast mask mode;

3 Select a brush in the toolbox and select a suitable size brush;

4 Use the brush to paint in the image;

5 Press q key switch to standard mode, at this time not be paint area become the choice area;

6) Press Shift+ctrl+i key combination to invert the constituency;

(7) Execute the feather command under the Select menu and set the feather value to pixels;

8) Setting the background color;

9 Press del key with background color fill selection area, halo effect is formed.

Summary: The halo effect is mainly formed by using the feathering (Feather) characteristics of the selection. The greater the feather value, the more obvious the halo effect. Arbitrary shape of the halo effect, the first use of the fast mask to create an irregular shape of the selection, and then to reverse, feather, fill, you can. The key is the selection of the selection (paint) and the setting of the feather value.

Note: In quick mask mode, use tools such as brushes, erasers, pencils, and airbrush to smear in the image, regardless of the current foreground color, and the smudge area, the mask area, is represented in red (the color of the quick mask can be set). When you switch back to standard mode, the area that is not smeared will form a selection