CGCookie – Working with Vignettes in the VSE

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. Blender has many tools that can be enlisted in building vignette effects. In this tutorial series we will construct vignettes in the Video Sequence Editor using the Image Editor's mask tool, learn how to duplicate, animate, and move a vignette around the timeline, and discover how to build vignettes in the compositor.