Stylize effects

Explore Stylize effects to understand how to add creative looks like glow, emboss, and posterization to clips.

Stylize effects in Adobe Premiere Pro let you add a fun, artistic touch to your videos. Instead of keeping things realistic, these effects change the look of your clips in bold and creative ways. They're great for setting a mood, creating abstract visuals, or making parts of your video pop.

Alpha Glow effect

The effect applies color along the edges of a masked alpha channel. You can make the color fade out or gradually shift to a second color as it extends from the edge.

Brush Strokes effect

The effect applies a rough, painted look to an image. You can also use this effect to achieve a pointillist style by setting the length of the brush strokes to zero and increasing the stroke density. Although you specify the direction of strokes, they are scattered randomly by a small amount to give a more natural result. This effect alters the alpha channel and the color channels. If you’ve masked out a portion of the image, the brush strokes paint over the edges of the mask.

Color Emboss effect

The Color Emboss effect works like the Emboss effect, without suppressing the image’s original colors.

Find Edges effect

The Find Edges effect identifies the areas of the image that have significant transitions and emphasizes the edges. Edges can appear as dark lines against a white background or colored lines against a black background. If the Find Edges effect is applied, images often look like sketches or photographic negatives of the original.

Mosaic effect

The Mosaic effect fills a clip with solid-color rectangles, pixelating the original image. This effect is useful for simulating low-resolution displays and for obscuring faces. You can also animate it for a transition.

Posterize effect

The Posterize effect lets you specify the number of tonal levels (or brightness values) for each channel in an image. The Posterize effect then maps pixels to the closest matching level. For example, choosing two tonal levels in an RGB image gives you two tones for red, two tones for green, and two tones for blue. Values range from 2 to 255.

Replicate effect

The effect divides the screen into tiles and displays the whole image in each tile. Adjust the number of tiles in each column and row by moving the slider.

Roughen Edges effect

The Roughen Edges effect roughs up the edges of a clip’s alpha channel by using calculations. It gives rasterized text or graphics a naturally rough look, like that of eroded metal or typewriter text.

Strobe Light effect

The Strobe Light effect performs an arithmetic operation on a clip or makes the clip transparent at periodic or random intervals. For example, every five seconds the clip could become completely transparent for one-tenth of a second, or a clip’s colors could invert at random intervals.