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This tutorial demonstrates how to create vignette border fades from Custom Shapes. Vignette (pronounced vin’yet), is a term used to describe illustrations and photographs with faded borders, and are usually found in books.
My lesson here demonstrates how to create vignette border fades from the Marquee Tool.
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Open your image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
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Then from the top menu, choose Layer then choose New then choose Layer. There is no need to name the layer, click OK. Note: You have just unlocked the layer - subsequently changing its name from Background to Layer 0.
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Now, (from the bottom of the Layers palette), click the following Create a new layer icon, to create a transparent layer above Layer 0. Understanding Layers Lesson Here.
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And ensuring your are working on the new layer (highlighted above), from the toolbar, activate the Custom Shape Tool.
And set the following attributes into the following Options bar.
Double left-click to set Stamp 1, as shown above. Alternatively, choose a solid shape you prefer. Now, left-click and drag the stamp shape onto the canvas.
After you release your mouse button, a white stamp shape will be placed onto your image.
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Now, activate the Magic Wand Tool. 
And with a Tolerance of around 10, left-click inside the white shape, to surround it with a selection marquee.
 
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Now, right-click the white stamp, and from the drop-down list, choose Feather; change the Feather Radius to a value you like. Remember, the Feather setting controls the amount of fade between the edge of the photograph and its background - for my stamp vignette, I am choosing a Feather Radius of 2 Pixels.
Click OK to set the feather.
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Then from the top menu, choose Select then choose Inverse.
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Now, from the Layers palette, hide the visibility of the shape layer by clicking the eye icon.
This hides the eye icon  and the shape layer.
Important! Ensure the layer that contains your photograph is the active layer.
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Then press the Delete key of your keyboard. Press Ctrl then D to remove the
marquee.
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To finish, I applied a New Pattern Layer as described Here.
The same principle can be applied with most custom shapes; however, you will find some more suitable than others. Experiment with different shapes, feather settings and background fills, and when you are happy with your result, from the top menu, choose Layer then choose Flatten Image - and save your work as a Jpeg Here. Alternatively, previous to flattening the layers, save your vignette with a transparent background, by saving it as a transparent Gif.
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