Transfer Of Vignetting Effect From Paintings To Photographs

This paper addresses the aesthetic enhancement of the vignetting effect in photographs to follow such effect organization in example paintings. The example painting is selected based on a comparison of the contextual geometry of the painting and the photograph. Then an algorithm is developed to transfer the lightness weighting extracted from an example painting to a photograph to create the painter-style vignetting effect. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm can successfully transfer the vignetting effect from an example painting to a photograph. Meanwhile, the vignetting effect is more naturally presented with regard to aesthetic composition comparing with popular software tools and camera models.