Raster effects
for photos and footage

A raster effect reads the picture under it and paints a new one, pixel by pixel. Print, glass, glow and grain, live on any photo or clip.

Make a raster effect See the effects

The plugins are free with an account. Paid plans add bigger renders and your own effects. See pricing

The same portrait as a grainy riso print: orange-red hair, a pale blue shirt and background covered in speckled blue and yellow ink grain. — After, with Risograph Effect

How a raster effect works

It looks at the colors under it and paints new pixels on top, the way photo effects always have.

It reads the picture

Every pixel it paints starts from the colors under it.

It paints new pixels

Ink, grain, glass and light, rendered at your size.

It runs on footage

Every frame gets the effect, and every setting can be keyframed.

Raster effects to start with

Every one runs in your apps with the same controls as the web editor. See every effect

In every app you use

A raster effect renders as pixels everywhere, so Illustrator and Figma place it as an image.

Describe a raster effect

Switch Create to Raster and say what you want, or drop in a reference. A sentence is enough.

Meet Create

A cheap CMYK print: rough dots, heavy misregistration, grainy paperCMYK Print
A three-⁠color riso print on white paper, grainy, with the plates slightly out of registerRisoPrint

Raster or vector?

Raster

Vector

What it makes

Pixels

Real vector paths

Best for

Photos and footage: print, glass, glow and grain

Graphics that scale: dots, lines, letters and shapes

In Illustrator and Figma

Placed as an image

Paths and groups you can edit

From the web editor

PNG and MP4

SVG on Creator and up, plus PNG and MP4

Ask Create for

Glitch, CRT, duotone, pixel sort

Stipple, contour lines, flow fields, mazes

Questions, answered

An effect that works in pixels: it reads the picture under it and paints a new one. Halftone, CRT, risograph and reeded glass are raster effects.

Yes. In After Effects and in the web editor it runs on every frame, and every setting can be keyframed.

The result comes back as an image. For paths you can edit, use a vector effect.

In the web editor, up to 720p on Free, 4K on Creator and 8K on Pro. In the plugins, Free renders at 480 pixels on the short side and Creator and up at full size.

Yes, with Create on Creator and Pro. Switch it to Raster, describe the look or drop in a reference, and it lands as a new effect with its own controls.