Normally, vignetting is bad. It’s a form of lens distortion where the photo’s edges become darker. It can look okay, but unless your subject is in the middle, it’s not great for creative control. Vignetting can be corrected using Lens Profiles in Lens Corrections – applied for mirrorless cameras automatically. Lightroom Classic CC does have a Vignetting option in Effects, but it’s centred only (though it is crop aware). A better option is the Radial Gradient tool, which is now one of the Masking options. You can still use this filter in older versions of Lightroom, though the interface looks different – this tutorial is for Lightroom Classic 11 and upwards. The key difference from vignetting is that you can place the Radial Gradient centre anywhere. Open up one of your images, or experiment with the Church.jpg start image from your download files and follow along to see how it’s done…
