Editing Your Photos Is Essential

Adding Special Effects to Your Photos: A Vignette

What is a vignette?  The French word has come to refer to a photographic image that has a clear contrast in the center and fades off at the edges. Photo editors apply vignettes to photos by reducing brightness or saturation at the periphery compared to the center.

Why add a vignette?  Photo editors add a vignette to an image to draw attention to the center of the frame.

While the majority of editors use a dark vignette, Warren employs a variety of vignettes for clients: dark, light, faded-edge, dark-grunge, dark-oval, dark-rectangle, custom-shape, rectangular, elliptical, heart-shaped, Lomographic, and complex vignettes, as shown below and on page 2 and page 3.

Dark Vignette

Dark Vignette  Move your cursor on then off this original image to see the dark elliptical vignette that Warren gave this photo of Dexter the dog. Your eyes will be drawn toward Dexter's eye.

Photo credit: Paul Silk

Light Vignette

Light Vignette  Move your cursor on then off this original image to see how a light elliptical vignette draws your eyes toward the text of God's Scripture beneath the rainbow.

Comparing Dark and Light Vignettes

Two Vignettes to Compare  Click the two links under this original wedding image to compare the effects that dark and light vignettes add to photos.

Click to see: a A dark vignette tends to give a photo a soft, somber border as it directs attention toward the brighter center. dark vignette   |   a A light vignette can give a photo a boost, turning it from a snapshot to something special. light vignette

Compare eight custom dark and light vignettes on this page.

Vignette Page 1   |   Vignette Page 2   |   Vignette Page 3

In addition to these three pages of vignette transformations,
see the large collection of WCD's unique photo edit pages in the left column.

Don't wait any longer to showcase your photo presentations. Contact Warren Camp Design today, at 209-795-7661, to discuss your upcoming campaign and learn how Warren can utilize his digital artistry skills to enhance and give prominence to your photos.