Add a vignette to video and photos

How to add a vignette to a video online

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   Open your video or photo

   Choose Open your own file: the editor opens with the effect, ready for your file (videos as MP4, MOV, M4V, WebM, MKV; photos as JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF). It opens in your browser, and nothing is uploaded.

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   Set the vignette and compare

   Amount sets how dark the corners get, Midpoint where the darkening begins, Roundness its shape and Feather how soft its edge is. Compare shows the original beside the result.

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   Export it

   In the editor, export the video as MP4 or WebM, or the photo as PNG, JPEG or WebP, at its full resolution, with no watermark.

Amount, Midpoint, Roundness and Feather

Amount sets how dark the corners get, from none at 0 to 100, about two stops darker at the corners, worked out in linear light, as light falls off through a lens. Midpoint sets where the darkening begins, from the centre at 0 to the corners at 100.

Roundness sets the shape: at −100 it follows the frame's rectangle, at 0 it is an ellipse fitted to the frame and at 100 a circle. Feather sets how soft its edge is, from hard at 0 to very gradual at 100.

Why a vignette works

Darker corners draw the eye to the middle of the frame and hold it there, as old lenses did of their own accord. A light touch is usually enough: the editor's presets use an Amount of 15 to 40, and more gives a moodier, more dramatic frame.

The same vignette at any size

The vignette's shape comes from the frame's own, so the preview, a 4K export and a vertical video match. With letterbox bars it fits the picture between them, darkening the picture's corners rather than the bars. On video it stays put on the frame through every shot, and the export matches the preview.

Your files stay on your device

Everything happens right on your device, in your browser. Your videos and photos are opened, edited and saved there, and never sent anywhere.

Because nothing is uploaded, your files are safe: nothing can leak, and no one else, not even us, ever sees them. You don't need an account: one holds only your email address and the AI agents you let in, and signing in keeps a single cookie. An agent's instructions to your editor pass through our server and are deleted as soon as the editor has carried them out; your files never do. Without cookies, the site counts visits and a few choices, such as a preset or effect you pick and the format you export to, but never which files you open or anything in them.

Exports leave out hidden details such as where a video was recorded, and a shared link carries only your settings, never your file.

Files and browsers

Opens MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV videos and JPEG, PNG, WebP and AVIF photos, and exports MP4 or WebM, or PNG, JPEG or WebP, at full resolution, keeping the original sound where the browser can. Works in current Chrome and Edge on a computer or Android, in current Firefox on a computer and in Safari 26 or later; HDR video is converted to standard range.

Looks with a vignette

Six of the editor's presets use a vignette. Each opens the editor with its look:

• Warm filmA warm colour-negative look: muted colour, a little halation, grain and a light vignette.
• Night filmTungsten film at night: cool, contrasty, with strong red halos and bloom round the lights.
• Black and whiteMonochrome with firmer contrast, grain and a light vignette.
• Vintage lensAn old, simple lens: colour fringes at the edges, dark corners and a gentle glow.
• Retro VHSA worn videotape on an old TV: red and blue knocked out of line, a soft picture with haloed edges, boosted but faded colour, scanlines and grain.
• CinematicWidescreen cinema: 2.39:1 letterbox bars on a 16:9 frame, firmer contrast, a touch of warmth, a light vignette, fine grain and a little sharpening.

Questions about adding a vignette

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