Vignette using GIMP

Darkening towards the corners in a photograph. It brings the viewer's attention to the most important part of the photograph.

• Open the image in Gimp

•  Create a new layer with layer fill type as Foreground color (Keep the color as black)

•  Add a Mask to the layer - Initialise layer mask to white(Full opacity)

• Select the mode as soft light

•  Use any of the selection tool

• Select the region

• Bucket fill the selected region

• The region which has been bucket fill is bit brighter than the surrounding region

• Select --> None

• Select filter -> Gaussian blur and play around with the blur radius

• Comparison of image before and after vignette is applied