How to Add Brush Stroke Effect to Level Up Your Creative Video

Want to make your video pop up? Try to add a brush stroke effect to give your content a creative look. Additionally, it can be used as a transition to emphasize the subject and add more dynamic vibe to enhance video content. But how to add a brush stroke effect to your video? Don't worry! Simply follow our lead to explore two ways for integrating brush effects into your video. Let's dive in!

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Part 1. Add Brush Stroke Effect to Video/Photo Online

Instead of using pro-level editing software like After Effects to add brush stroke effect, a user-friendly online video editor called FlexClip is a more effective and easier way for you to apply creative brush stroke effect to video and photos.

As a full-featured video editor, FlexClip provides you multiple ways to integrate brush stroke effect into your videos. Whether it's brush stroke text with brush-like texture, brush stroke stickers that mimics hand-painted art or stylized brush stork overlay to enhance storytelling with a classic art, FlexClip gets you covered with full control of how the brush stroke effect look like. To help you understand it better, let's see some details about brush stroke effects in FlexClip.

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1.Brush Typography Pack

Reveal text with a brush stroke effect to wow your audience. FlexClip packs various title presets around different themes with brush stroke effects, helping you convey message in a more dynamic way. It could be a circle shape to showcase your title or creative shapes to unleash creativity. No matter what type of typography pack you use, you have full control over changing size, color and adding motions.

Brush Title Pack in FlexClip for You

2.Brush Animated Elements

Bring your art video to life with animated brush elements. There are loads of funny and original brush animations to perfect your art videos. Be it brush elements in solid color, stickers with brush stroke effects or creative items to present brush strokes, FlexClip can always offer you the most satisfying result without copyright issues.

Brush Stroke Animated Sticker in FlexClip

3.Brush Art Overlays

Need some brush photos for your slideshow? Want to give your video a brush broke effect look? FlexClip is here for help! Over 20 creative & transparent brush stroke overlays are all available to give your content a dreamy, painterly aesthetic with one tap click.

Brush Art Overlays for Artistic Video Look

4. Brush Art Mask Presets

Say goodbye to normal content sharing! Wear your photos and videos a brush stroke mask to make it stand out. There is no complicated manual edits required! Simply browse our extensive collection of brush stroke masks, pick your favorite, and instantly transform your content into a work of art

Extensive Brush Art Mask Presets in FlexClip

If you need a blueprint to guide your brush stroke effect creation or prefer a ready-made template to complete the replacement with easy drag-and-drop operation, FlexClip has multiple brush stroke templates in diverse themes for you to use.

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How to Create a Brush Stroke Effect Video Using FlexClip

FlexClip helps you create videos with brush stroke effects, be it brush slideshow or art videos. Now follow the guidelines below to create a brush stroke video online using FlexClip.

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Next hit the Media icon to upload photos, video clips and soundtracks from your PC. Then, add them to the timeline. You can also get thousands of brush resources from FlexClip's stock.

Upload the Resource You Want to Add Brush Stroke Effect in FlexClip

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Give your video a brush look with FlexClip's overlay effect. Find Effects on the left menu and select the brush overlay you want to use.

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Go ahead to Text panel and scroll down to find Brush Titles. Pick the style you like and start to type in words. Plus, customize the title layout like changing colors, adjusting the font, resizing the preset, etc., to make it fit your taste.

Add Brush Stroke Titles to Your Video

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Add animated items to your video. Tap the Elements button and get brush results with the search box. Apply your favorite one to your video and edit with ease.

Add Animated Brush Stroke Items to Your Video

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Want to make your brush stroke video more engaging? Pair it with brush sound effects and soft BGM. You can either create your unique one with FlexClip's AI Music Generator or directly access FlexClip's royalty-free audio stock to pick your favorite one from 74000+ options. When you finish, tap the Export icon to save your video or directly share it with a clickable link.

Add Soundtrack to Your Video

Go beyond brush stroke effect adding, FlexClip, as a full-featured video editor, packs a wide range of AI tools to speed up your video creation process and boost creativity possibilities. From script generation, video creation from text, AI image generator, craft natural-sounding voiceover from text, AI image style changer, etc., you can harness these AI tools to bring your vision into reality in a breeze.

AI Tools in FlexClip to Unlock Endless Creativity

Part 2. How to Make Brush Stroke Effect in After Effect

 Creating brush stroke art and animation in your video is easy with Adobe After Effects. The industry-standard visual tool is competent for visual effects and motion graphics in digital art. Also, it will lend you a hand to make a brush stroke effect. You can follow the tutorials below to learn how to add brush stroke effects on After Effect.

Open After Effect, click "New Composition" in the main interface, and rename it if necessary. Next, go to Layer>New>Solid to create a solid white background. Also, give it a new name if you like.

Now create another new composition for the brush and easily adjust the height and width. After that, produce a white layer above the brush layer and you need to change the shape by clicking the Mask Tool icon on the top > Ellipse.

Go to the Effects & Presets panel and find the fractal option. Then grab Fractal Noise" and drop it into the white solid layer. Here you can increase the contrast value to 300. After that, select the "Evolution" keyframe and drag it to the end of your timeline.

Go to the main composition and change the Brush composition above the white solid layer. Use the Pen tool to draw a letter or shape you like. From the left, go to "Path" and press "Ctrl + C" to copy. Then select the brush layer and hit "P." Select "Position" and pierce that.

Tap "Layer" >"Adjustment Layer"> "New and go to the Effects panel to "Echo option. Then drag it to the layer you're working. Here you need to change some parameters to enable the echo effect. Below is a parameter example for reference.

In the "Effects Control" panel, increase the echo number to around 400 and set "Echo Operator" to "Minimum." Also, set the "Echo Time" as low as you can while keeping it smooth.

Adjust the opacity and size of the brush you've added and save it. If you do not satisfy the result, apply the "Fast Box Blur" effect from the Effects panel to make it smoother. When you're done, save and export the brush stroke effect.

Animated Brush Strokes in After Effects

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