Video Effects on Photos

The Photo Editor includes every effect processor from the video tools, 20+ of them. Each one treats your photo as a single video frame and applies its full processing pipeline. Some effects produce different results on stills than on video, and a few look better on photos than they do in motion.

How It Works

Upload a photo. On the right panel (or the Effects tab on mobile), browse the effect grid. Effects are grouped into five categories: Stylize, Glitch, Motion, Scan, and Color. Click one, adjust its settings, and the preview updates live. When you export, the effect renders at your photo's original resolution.

Best Effects for Still Images

Neon Edge

Neon Edge runs edge detection and draws glowing colored outlines. On a still photo you get clean, detailed edges without the flickering that happens in video. Portraits produce face outlines with a stencil quality. Architecture gives you precise geometric line art. Set glow high and edge threshold low for thick neon wireframes.

Point Cloud

Point Cloud decomposes the image into particles arranged by brightness. At high density, the photo is fully reconstructable from dots. At low density, it dissolves into scattered points. 3D Orbit mode tilts the particle field in perspective, turning a flat photo into something that reads as three-dimensional. Portraits and faces work well because the eye fills in the missing detail between particles.

Datamosh

Datamosh on a single frame produces the codec-corruption look at frame zero. Pixel Scatter mode is the most visually active on stills, it swaps random pixel blocks around the image. I-Frame Drop on a single photo produces a static glitch pattern. The Chromatic Aberration slider splits RGB channels for a registration-error look even without motion.

Cinematic LUT

Cinematic LUT applies color grading presets. tealOrange gives the Hollywood blockbuster look. kodakVision warms and desaturates for an analog feel. Cyberpunk pushes into neon greens and magentas. On a still photo you can see the color mapping in detail that gets lost at video speed.

LED Scan

LED Scan renders the image as a grid of simulated LED pixels. On a still, every pixel dot is sharp and evenly lit. Looks like the image is displayed on a stadium scoreboard or LED art installation. Reduce the grid size for a coarse, blocky render or increase it for fine LED detail.

Opium

Opium on a single frame applies its color processing and atmosphere without the ghost-trail accumulation that builds over video frames. You get the dark, desaturated, crushed-black look without motion smearing. The Clean preset at frame 0 is a moody color grade on its own.

Stacking Effects with Adjustments and Grain

The processing order is: effects first, then adjustments, then grain, then film preset. This means you can:

  1. Apply Neon Edge for glowing outlines
  2. Push contrast with Crushed Shadows curve
  3. Add Dark grain at 40% to roughen up the edges
  4. Finish with a film preset for vignette and color shift

Or run Point Cloud, switch to B&W, add heavy shadow grain through the Image Analyser, and export a print-ready particle portrait.

Batch Processing

Upload multiple photos at once. The filmstrip shows all loaded images. Apply an effect and adjustments, then use Batch Export to process every image with the same settings. Each photo downloads as a separate JPG.

Effects That Behave Differently on Stills

Temporal effects like Motion Trails, Stutter, and Temporal Extrude rely on frame sequences. On a single photo, they produce their frame-0 output, the color and style processing still applies, but the motion-accumulation aspect needs multiple frames. They still produce usable stylized results, but the effect is more of a color treatment than a motion effect.

Recipes

Open the Photo Editor, upload any photo, and browse the effects panel. Each effect has its own settings, the preview is instant.

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