Filter a picture

Add a vignette to a photo

Rendered on your computer, not on a server.

Dark or light corners, sized, shaped, softened and centred as fractions of the frame, so the file matches the screen. Added in this tab, never uploaded.

No photo openDrop, paste or choose one

Drag photographs in, or click to find them

Portraits and centred subjects benefit most; move the centre for off-centre subjects.

Drop several at once for the folder surface, which rules the marks against each file's own size.

Then pick a look · set the strength · download

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Rendered on your computer, not on a server.

A look: your photo, a different colour

This is a look: your photograph is kept and only the brightness toward its edges changes, drawing the eye to the subject. Every setting is a fraction of the frame rather than a pixel count, so the vignette on screen and in the full-size file are the same.

Many looks on the strip already include a vignette; this mode is for when the vignette is the point.

The controls

Amount
Right of zero darkens the corners; left of zero lightens them.
Size
How far from the centre the vignette begins.
Roundness
Ellipse following the frame (0) to circle (100).
Feather
How gradually it fades in.
Centre
Drag the dot or use the arrow keys.

Where it falls short

  • A strong dark vignette on a dark photo crushes the corners to black.
  • The centre is placed with the small Centre box, not by dragging on the photo itself (dragging the photo sets strength).

The strip, the preview and the saved file run the same code on the same settings, with every size a fraction of the picture, so the file you download is the frame you approved.

Nothing is uploaded

There's no upload step on this page — your picture is decoded in the tab, drawn to a canvas, and gone the moment you close it. The filter runs in this tab, on your device, and the file is written here too.

Questions

Can I make a white vignette?
Yes. Move Amount to the left of zero and the corners lighten toward white instead of darkening — the soft white edge of a wedding or baby photo.
How do I move the centre?
Drag the dot in the Centre box, or focus it and use the arrow keys (Shift for bigger steps). Put the centre on a face that is not in the middle of the frame.
Will the vignette be the same size in the saved file?
Yes. Size, feather and centre are fractions of the frame, not pixel counts, so the vignette sits identically on the preview and on the full-size file.
What does Roundness change?
At 0 the vignette follows the frame's proportions as an ellipse; at 100 it is a true circle whatever the photo's shape.
Can I add a vignette on top of a filter?
The vignette is its own mode here. Many looks on the strip (Noir, Candlelight, the vintage family) already carry a vignette as part of the look.

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