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Vignette
Edge falloff reduces brightness gradually toward the frame corners without becoming a closing aperture.
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Vignette
This is the default recipe for the Vignette Falloff family.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Keep a restrained frame-anchored luminance falloff; preserve corner texture and do not animate an aperture or track the subject.
Vignette: Edge falloff reduces brightness gradually toward the frame corners without becoming a closing aperture. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Reach for Vignette when you need this effect: Edge falloff reduces brightness gradually toward the frame corners without becoming a closing aperture.
- How it works
- Keep a restrained frame-anchored luminance falloff; preserve corner texture and do not animate an aperture or track the subject.
- Common mistakes
- If the result does not follow this rule, it is not this technique: Keep a restrained frame-anchored luminance falloff; preserve corner texture and do not animate an aperture or track the subject. Do not change multiple variables at once so the effect becomes unreadable.
How to read this page
Vignette is one technique in Optical Effects. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
A 1907 emigration drama, the evening before the steamer sails: in his cottage, an old Irish flute maker slowly turns the blackwood flute he has made for his departing grandson, checking it one last time.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Vignette is a shot card
The full recipe for Vignette is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
Related families
- Lens Flare
Lens FlareStray light inside the imaging optics creates source-dependent ghosts or veiling glare that changes when the source is blocked. - Double Exposure
Double ExposureTwo image records coexist within the same frame through a controlled blend, instead of trading places as a transition. - Split Screen
Split ScreenTwo separately photographed or generated image fields are visible at the same time within one composed frame.
More in Optical Effects
References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- Wikipedia: Vignetting
Wikipedia · Web
Vignetting is a reduction of brightness toward the corners compared with the centre.
Images & stills
- Ace Combat 7: heavy vignetting darkens the corners
@TugaAvenger · 2019-02-14 · X
Ace Combat 7 vignetting so strong it visibly darkens the corners.
- Mocking "fix chromatic aberration in Lightroom later"
@sdw · 2014-09-10 · X
Mocks "fix chromatic aberration in Lightroom later" — fringing as a lens defect.
- Alan Wake 2: request to disable chromatic aberration and vignetting
@BradolfPittla · 2023-11-13 · X
Asks to disable chromatic aberration and vignetting — common post effects in game cameras.