Creating a Vignette in Premiere Pro  

This post originally appeared in the Multimedia Tips and Tricks blog (SMDC), which was reorganized into Research Tech Tips as of September 2025. The services described in this article are still available through the Research Data and Design Commons (RDDC).

by Jonathan Famiglietti, Student Multimedia Design Center 

If you are familiar with film and photography terminology, you may have heard of the term “Vignetting”. In these fields, a “Vignette” refers to the progressive reduction in brightness toward the periphery compared to the image or video center. In practical terms, this effect creates a dark border around the outer edges of the screen. 

In this video, we will be creating a vignette using a powerful color correction video effect that comes installed with the Adobe Premiere Pro software called “Lumetri Color”. 

If you’re interested in using Adobe Premiere to create a vignette for your footage, stop by the Student Multimedia Design Center in Morris Library where you can book time in our studio spaces or use our Mac classroom equipped with the full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite.