How to add effects and filters to your TIKTOK videos

Social media has been an established way to stay in touch with friends and family. Plus, they give you the option to post content, whether it's original, creative, and great fun images and videos.

Being entertainment platforms, every day more users join their communities, especially during their free time and why not? escape the routine.

Currently, the main networks to communicate with each other are: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, twitter and TikTok, the latter being the most recent and yet it has managed to stand out from the others thanks to the number of active users per month, features and functions.

TikTok, is an application for Android and iOS mobile phones completely free and allows you to view, share, download and create short videos of various themes and personalized to your style according to your creativity.

We recently talked about the way to crop videos on TikTok, this time we show you how to add effects and filters so you can stand out and gain subscribers. Dark!

How to add effects to your TikTok videos

• Enter the app TikTok since your cellphone. If you don't have it available yet, download it for free for Android et iOS.
• On the main platform screen, click on the (+) icon, located in the lower central part.

Enter the TikTok app and go to the video editor window

• The video editing window will appear, click where it is written "Effects".
• Effects will appear by categories: Popular, Trendy, New, Game, Funny, Special Effects, Beauty and even a flag icon will appear where your favorites are.
• In this section, it will be about trying yourself one by one and when you have decided to start recording the video.

List of effects for your videos on TikTok by categories

Now if you already have a video in your mobile gallery, you can also add effects in this way :

• On the main platform screen, click on the (+) icon, located in the lower central part.
• The video editing window will appear, click where it is written " Download ".
• Select a video from your gallery and click "Following".

Upload a video and add different style effects to your content

• At the bottom of the window, click "Effects", identified by a timer icon.
• You will have a range of categories to add effects of: visualization, stickers, transition, division, time warp. Select the ones you like the most for your video and click "Record".

List of temporal distortion and transition effects

Among all the variety of TikTok effects, you can find more animated, face change, trivia to answer, hair colors, limb distortion, makeup, tattoos, animal masks, masks, eye masks, old age, fake smiles and the popular colorful Unicorn.

How to Add Filters to Your TikTok Videos

• Enter the app TikTok since your cellphone.
• On the main platform screen, click on the (+) icon, located in the lower central part.
• The video editing window will appear, click on the icon with three circles that says "Filters", located on the right side.

Enter the TikTok app and go to the video editor window

• The filters will appear by categories: Portrait, Landscape, Food, Intense and a "Manage" section to check your favorite filters.
• Now you just have to choose the color you like the most and start recording your video.

List of filters for your videos on TikTok by categories

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As you will see, this is the most creative way to add effects and filters to your TikTok videos. So put your imagination to the test and start creating content.

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