Image processing presents photographers with many opportunities, and a vignette is one of the options that can work to give your image some focus. A vignette is essentially a frame around your images, perhaps black in colour or white, and it essentially gives the viewers’ eye a spot to focus on.

A vignette can occasionally give your image a traditional feel, but it’s important that this technique is used sparingly. The reason for this is because it can soon become overused if it’s found in a large number of your portfolio images, and it’s certainly technique that only works well in some photographs.

Vignettes should never cover important details, and especially not the important areas of an image, and it’s important to get an idea on how to use it correctly. You can do this by researching the technique online, and looking at the good and bad examples.