vignetted

Is "vignetted" (did you just coin that, or is it decorator-speak?) maybe like those open-house fake scenes with picturesque tea and scones set out and a magazine "left open" like someone was just reading it (but wasn't)?

Apartment Therapy Main 2009

I have used the Platt photograph — a vignetted head with beard — in my John Brown Photo Chronology exhibition which has opened at the Kansas Historical Research Gallery this week.

The City draped in Mourning « Fondly, Pennsylvania: Notes from Archives and Conservation 2010

Yeah, I just have a few panels primed with white oil for these vignetted sketches.

Scraper Sketch James Gurney 2008

It is nice to see these vignetted oil studies and this one is a beauty.

Scraper Sketch James Gurney 2008

The eternal banality of the picture window is forever with us, the lessons of the vignetted view never learned, even as we have developed techniques and materials that make such subtleties possible.

Setting the Record Straight About Ed Stone and Brad Cloepfil 2008

All I saw was a swirling miasma of giant old white man heads, occasionally interspersed with a darker, younger head and some hazy vignetted off-color photographs of a thermostat, the Capitol dome and an oil rig?

The artistic qualities of this McCain ad completely distracted me from whatever words were spoken or shown. Ann Althouse 2008

Iwa, which was vignetted by a frame of dark cryptomeria.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

And there were gray days, too, which only served to make more golden the sun-kissed ones; days when no observations could be taken with the sextant, to the huge disgust of the officer in charge of such work; days when the distant mountains loomed spectre-like through the mist, their sharp outlines vignetted into the sky.

A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel

Scotch suits, set stiffly against the table like dolls -- with gradual improvement in art and style, till he came to a page where Adelaide's fair vignetted head of large size was placed side by side with another, also vignetted and also large.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

The best arrangement for vignetting in enlarging is a piece of cardboard the size of the negative, with an opening cut out at the proper place and about the size of the portion of the negative to be vignetted.

Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements John A. Tennant