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Now, here's how to get rid of bad vignetting. It's also how to add good vignetting, but most people use it for bad vignetting. You go to Filter, distort, lens correction and why Adobe puts this tool here, I'll never know but be that as it may, that's where it's located and we have vignette right here in the center of the toolbar and it's very simply. You just adjust this way to get rid of it and you just have to look at your image and guestimate it because there's no numerical value that I can give you that's going to work or that you should apply. And you just adjust until it looks right. hit OK and you can see then in the upper left-hand corner of this image you probably have to do this process again and maybe even use layer masks in order to completely balance it out, but you get the basic idea. Now, let's take a look at how to add beneficial vignetting and we'll take a look at this picture of Laura on her horse and we have a lot of white area here in the background and that can be a little bit distracting. We can do some things to add vignetting to try to make this a more attractive image and to focus attention on her. And obviously, if you want to add vignetting you go to the left, which you can see we've done there. Of course, you don't want to overwhelm her head so you have to adjust the mid-point so that it really doesn't encroach upon her face. And there we have it. And that's how to add vignetting on the vignette slider. It's a little imprecise but it works, better than it was. Let's take a look at another way to do vignetting. This is beneficial vignetting and we go to our layers palette, we establish two copy layers and we go to the top layer, like you've seen me do this before but it bears repeating, go to our brush and we increase the size, got our opacity, it says go up to like 30 percent, somewhere like that and then you just paint over. We want the lighting to be a little bit disheveled. We don't want it to be completely, positively even. Establish a layer mask, grab our same brush with the same opacity. In fact, let's bring the opacity down to ten percent because we want this to be a gradual blending and then we just paint. And we're really just painting a hole in the image. Well, maybe we can go up a little bit. I'm not seeing any reaction. And you can see there that it gradually brings it out. Maybe a little bit of halo. I think that's a much better result than using the vignetting slider, but you still have a vignette by definition. And if we want to darken the area around here, we could choose the image off of the mask. Simply come up and paint it over it. Well, that's a little much, but you get the idea. Now, let's take a look at another example and this is the image that we all saw before and we do basically the same thing. Let's get two adjustment layers, get our brush, opacity at say 20 percent and we just paint over it. Get the layer mask and we can be a little more aggressive with this one because it's not quite so precise. It's a darker image to begin with. We have a wider circle. It really helps to keep an eye on your layer mask to kind of guide you, especially in these darker images. Then we go to the Curves Dialog Box for a little bit of help. That helps to place a little more attention on the subject. And that's how to do a beneficial vignette.