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Pop Art Video Effect

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Often followed by + Contrast + Film Grain

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Settings are written to the URL as you change them. Nothing differs from the defaults yet.

Turn a clip into a moving pop art print. Tones are flattened into four bold colors, screened with halftone dots, and outlined in black.

Exposure and contrast

Exposure moves the picture between the four bands before posterizing; Contrast sets how sharply the bands separate. Faces read best when the skin sits in the light midtones.

Dots and outline

Halftone Dots sets the dot size in the midtone bands. Outline draws edges in the shadow color. Strong outlines hold the shapes together in motion, when the band boundaries crawl.

Frequently Asked Questions

Each frame is split into four brightness bands: shadows and outlines, dark midtones, light midtones, and highlights. Each band gets one color. Exposure shifts which parts of the picture fall into which band.

Not in the video version, which uses the pop art tool's default palette of black, red, cream, and white. The Pop Art image tool has presets and a custom four-color palette.

Yes. The dot grid scales with the frame, so the preview and every export show the same number of dots.

It is copied into the export unchanged when the container can hold its codec, and re-encoded when it cannot. A note under the export button says which happened.

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