vignette

noun

• 1a brief evocative description, account, or episode:a classic vignette of embassy life

• 2a small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border.

• 3a small ornamental design filling a space in a book or carving, typically based on foliage.

verb

• portray (someone) in the style of a vignette.
• produce (a photograph) in the style of a vignette by softening or shading away the edges of the subject: (as adjective vignetted)instructions had been sent to the shop to make a cropped, oval, vignetted copy of a family group portrait