Can I include a bright-centre vignette in a Photoshop LUT using adjustment layers?
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I want to export a LUT from Photoshop that includes a vignette which brightens the centre of the image. Normally I’d do this with a radial Gradient Fill set to Reverse and Soft Light, but fill layers can’t be included when creating a LUT. Is there a way to create a similar effect using only adjustment layers?
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Yes—use an adjustment layer and build the vignette in its layer mask.
A LUT or Curves adjustment can carry the tonal/color change, while the mask controls where that change appears. To mimic a bright-centre vignette:
- Add an adjustment layer such as Curves.
- Make the adjustment brighten the image as needed.
- Edit the adjustment layer’s mask so the effect is strongest in the centre and falls off toward the edges. A soft radial gradient on the mask works well.
- If needed, duplicate or add another adjustment layer for stronger brightening and copy/invert the mask as required.
This gives you a centre-brightening vignette using adjustment layers instead of a Gradient Fill layer.
One important caveat: the vignette itself is a spatial effect. LUTs are mainly for color/tone remapping and don’t inherently describe image-position-based effects. In Photoshop, the look can be created with an adjustment layer plus mask, but the mask-based vignette is separate from the LUT’s color mapping itself.
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