Add Vignette to Photo

Drop your photos into the form and the edges darken right away, while the center stays as it was. A shutter over the image shows the before and after.

Why use a vignette

The eye goes to whatever is bright. When the edges of a frame are darker than the center, attention stays on the main subject: a face, an object, a plate. Old lenses produced this darkening on their own; now it is added on purpose.

Settings

• Vignette. Dark, light (the edges fade to white, as in wedding and baby photos), or a color of your choice.
• Strength. How much the outermost edges darken or lighten.
• Center size. How much of the frame stays untouched.
• Softness. How gradually the effect builds toward the edges.
• Roundness. From an oval inscribed in the frame to a rectangle with rounded corners.
• Highlight protection. With a dark vignette, skies and highlights near the edges darken less than everything else.

To blur the edges instead of darkening them, or to fade them into a white background, use the Blur Photo Edges tool.