• In the same way that you can sculpt clay or wood, vignettes let you shape light and shadows. They can add depth, atmosphere, mystery, or wonder to your digital images. A vignette mimics subtle effects of human vision reproducing fall- offs in color perception and brightness around the periphery of our field of view. Technically a vignette is the actual fall-off in brightness across an image towards the edge. The darker less saturated borders drive the viewers attention back toward the focal point.

What You Will Learn

• Blender has many tools that can be enlisted in building vignette effects. In this tutorial series, we will:
• Find out how to construct vignettes in the VSE using the UV/Image editor’s mask tool.
• Learn to duplicate, animate and move the vignette around the timeline.
• Discover how to build vignettes in the compositor.