Vignetting

First of all when you have opened an image into photoshop you need to make a new layer. so as it shows above you go to 'layer' then 'new' and then finally 'layer'. You should then come up with this box shown below.

just press 'ok'

you then go to the side bar on the left hand side and choose the brush tool.

which is the image shown above, you then need to change the size of the brush to what size you want it to be, by going to the drop down menu shown below.

the image just above shows which drop down menu you need to click on and then the image above that shows the different brush strokes you can have and the side you want it to be.

you then go to the colour tool to change the colour of the background. I have chosen black then just press 'ok'. You then need to hold the shift key down on your keyboard while drawing around the edge of the picture it should start to look like this.

I have made a boarder at the top of the image on on the right hand side, when you have finished bordering your image it should look like this below.

then you can make the border fade into the picture so its not so dramatic.

by going to 'filter' then 'blur' and then finally 'gaussian blur' you should then come up with this box shown below.

which you just slide the arrow along the line to either have a really distinctive border or one that just blends in, i chose somewhere in the middle so you can tell there is a border but its blends in nicely.

you then should have a finished image, sometimes pictures look better in black and white with a vignetting effect on them so to change your image to black and white.

just go to 'image' then 'adjustments' and then finally 'black and white' it should then do it automatically but you will then come up with this box below.

you can just change the light and darkness of the photo by moving the arrows on the colour lines. You should then have a finished your final image.

my finished photograph.