Vignette vs. Montage — What's the Difference?

A decorative design placed at the beginning or end of a book or chapter of a book or along the border of a page.

The technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole

An unbordered picture, often a portrait, that shades off into the surrounding color at the edges.

A single pictorial composition made by juxtaposing or superimposing many pictures or designs.

A short, usually descriptive literary sketch.

The art or process of making such a composition.

A short scene or incident, as from a movie.

A relatively rapid succession of different shots in a movie.

To provide (a photograph or image) with indistinct or fading edges.

The juxtaposition of such successive shots as a cinematic technique.

To describe in a brief way.

A composite of closely juxtaposed elements

(architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.

To use or incorporate in a montage.

(printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.

(countable) A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.

(by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.

(uncountable) The art or process of doing this.

(by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.

(transitive) To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

(philately) The central pictorial image on a postage stamp.

A paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image;

(photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, to produce an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.

(photography) Any effect in a photographic picture where qualities vanish towards the edges.

(computer graphics) A hardware deficiency (even occurring in most expensive models) of a computer display wherein the picture slants towards a colour or brightness towards the edges especially if viewed from an angle.

(automotive) A small sticker affixed to a vehicle windscreen to indicate that tolls have been paid.

To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.

A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.

A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.

A picture, illustration, or depiction in words, esp. one of a small or dainty kind.

To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.

A brief literary description

A photograph whose edges shade off gradually

A small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)