Fading a photo's edges

[jasd]

I want to fade the edges of a photograph to nothing. Creating a soft vignette. Can't discover how to do it.

Any suggestions?

[Alfred]

1. Create a rectangle or an ellipse at the appropriate size and position on top of the photo.

2. Apply a Gaussian Blur filter effect to the shape that you created.

3. In the Layers panel, drag the shape layer and drop it onto the thumbnail of the photo layer.

[jasd]

Hi. Thanks. I did exactly what you said, but it came out as a white rectangle fading to nothing over the image.

The image is only visible around the edges, as if it needs to be inverted but I can't see how to do that.

[GarryP]

4 minutes ago, jasd said:

I did exactly what you said

Did you drop the rectangle layer onto the thumbnail of the image layer as suggested, or did you drag the rectangle layer onto the name of the image layer? They each do different things.

[jasd]

As you were - I found invert in the layers file, but the effect is still nowhere near your sample

[jasd]

1 minute ago, GarryP said:

Did you drop the rectangle layer onto the thumbnail of the image layer as suggested, or did you drag the rectangle layer onto the name of the image layer? They each do different things.

I'm not sure - I think I dropped the layer. I'll try again. Thanks

[jasd]

Hmmm. I set the blur to 100% but It still won't fade to nothing.

[MickRose]

This is what the layer panel should look like. The rectangle needs to have a fill of some kind (any).

[PaulEC]

Use the live Gaussian Blur filter. After you've dropped it onto the picture you can adjust the size and the blur in the image.

 

 

[Pšenda]

Or try Fx - Inner Glow.

[jasd]

16 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

Use the live Gaussian Blur filter. After you've dropped it onto the picture you can adjust the size and the blur in the image.

 

 

That's incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!

[jasd]

Thank you all. Now I have discovered the live Gaussian blur tool, my problem is solved.

I have to say again, how much I appreciate this forum. You're great, guys!

[jasd]

The result: