Oh Vignette, you are sassy and tart. Too much and you are obvious, too little and the eyes stray, but just right and you are so, so subtle. In photography,
vignetting is the darkening of the outer edges of an image, so that the viewer's eyes are kept on the subject of the photograph. Done well, and the effect is barely noticeable. Done poorly and you have nothing but a dark circles around the edges of your images.
Here is an example of an exaggerated vignette. It is purposefully done poorly to identify the effect.
Here's an example that is a bit more subtle.
Here's the effect done just to my liking.
BTW, I used my main editor, Capture NX2, for these examples.
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