It may happen especially when using a wide-angle lens and/or applying filters that the corners of the picture are covered by something. The effect may range from a slight darkening to a rough black border. In artistic pictures, this darkening may even look nice, but most of the time it is rather annoying, so it is best to eliminate it as described below.

Today's video is a relatively simple tip on two different ways to create a vignette for your photographs. A vignette is basically a soft-edged border around a photograph. Enjoy!

Learn a bit about making a vignette with loads of examples inside

In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw a cartoonish TV and then animate the white noise effect.

Make a cute little Linux-esque penguin with this detailed, step-by-step tutorial.

Creating a Windows XP look

Using this tutorial you will learn how to create a can, or a trash can icon.

Create a Cat eye lens for a human eye. Tweak your eyes with this photo retouching tutorial.

Learn how to blend images or photos and create a collage with them using Photoshop. Mostly used for making headers of a website.

Learn to create a textured planet.

Use Photoshop to pen a hornet design.

I would like now to create a sea illustration of some kind. Maybe we will do an underwater landscape. So in this one, we will practice a lot of filter effects that are available in Photoshop. We will use the effects to build object of the illustration giving them even texture.

This tutorial will show you how to use gradients and different effects to create a pencil in Photoshop.

Learn how to create asphalt from scratch with Photoshop filters.

In this tutorial you'll create a disc and make a logo out of it.

Learn how to create bubbles using Photoshop.

Use some not so fancy skills to create this design.

Learn how to create a nice reflective orb with a really unique reflection.

In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a clipboard using Photoshop.

Learn how to create a 3D logo.