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Vignette
Shade the frame edges, or cut them away so the layers below show through
A vignette is the gentle darkening around the edges of a photograph — an accident of old lenses that photographers liked enough to keep, because it quietly pulls your eye to the middle. Here it can also do the opposite of darkening: instead of shading the edges it can *remove* them, so whatever is underneath carries on uninterrupted. That is how a shaft of light gets its shape — the light itself fills the whole frame, and a soft oval decides which part of it you're allowed to see.
I. Made with Vignette
II. Everything else
- 2D Light — A positioned light over the layers below — glow or spotlight
- Beam — A beam of light over your scene — line, cross, star, ring, triangle or viewport frame
- Bloom — Soft glow on the brightest areas
- Cast Light — Daylight through leaves, a blind or a window — warm where it lands, cool in the shade