A vignette is a tool in photoshop that allows you to place a dark border around the subject. It can add to a photo or hurt it and make it look cheesy. I sujest using this technique only when you have a simple photo. If you try to vignette a complicated photo there will be to much going on in the composition. On the other hand, if you use a simple photo then it can to the photo all while narrowing the focus onto the subject. In this photo the vignette focuses on the feather. The pattern on the material is just enough to make it interesting but not to busy. The vignette seems to open ones mind to maybe look into this photo as a metaphor for how one person is simply a delicate feather in a complicated world. Also this seems to be another photo

shop challenge and if you are not the most tech-sabby person then I sujest you pull out your photo shop guide book.