She’s Breaking Down How To Make Your Own TikTok Filters So You Can Unleash Your Inner Artist
TikTok filters are one of the best things about the app. It’s fun to play around with different makeup looks, play trivia games, or even make a mini presentation with the green screen.
But did you know that you can also make your own TikTok filters? But be warned: there are a lot of steps.
TikTok creator, @art_by__alyssa, introduced this facet to viewers in her video about how to draw your own TikTok filters.
She begins by saying that there’s a specific platform to go to, called Effect House, in order to start creating a filter.
The wild part is that TikTok has opened this feature up to anyone– you don’t have to be a developer at TikTok to add to their archive of filters!
“Anyone on TikTok can make TikTok filters,” she said.
Alyssa mentions that it’s important to have a TikTok account, as you must log into it through Effect House.
Once you log in, download the Effect House software onto your computer. The app should then appear on your home screen, and you are free to create whatever you desire!
TikTok; pictured above is Alyssa in her video
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Alyssa demonstrated in her video how to create a makeup filter on TikTok. To do this, aside from Effect House, you are going to need a drawing app like Procreate.
“I use the app Procreate to draw and create all of my filters,” she said. “For making a face filter, you’re going to want to get this face asset.”
As she shows, having a “face asset” or a model image of the human face to use as a base for your filter is important so that it lines up perfectly with people’s faces when they use your filter on TikTok.
Don’t worry if you can’t draw makeup well; TikTok has an entire set of pre-designed makeup templates.
In their guide for how to make filters, TikTok lists certain “Technical Guides,” including how to “Make your first effect: Makeup,” which is where they attached a zip file for a “Makeup Effect.” Alyssa shows that this spot is where to look for the templates.
Once you have obtained the file, it’s time to head back to Procreate to begin drawing, Alyssa said.
“You’re going to want to create a canvas of 1000 x 1000 pixels,” she added. “Next, you want to get the face asset into Procreate, so click ‘Insert file.'”
Finally, it’s time to draw. When that’s done, export your drawing as a PNG, she explained.
For your effect to be used on TikTok, it must be uploaded through Effect House by clicking “Create Project,” Alyssa showed.
This is where it gets complicated. Within your new ‘project,’ you must drag the art that you made into the dropbox on your project page. Once this is complete, there are overlay steps that you must do:
“Add object, face effects, face mask,” she explained in sequential order of what buttons to click.
Under “Face Mask,” Alyssa uploaded the artwork into the “Face Mask Texture” section on the right side control panel on the screen. That is finally the last step before sending it to TikTok, she said.
The easiest way to understand this complicated process is to watch her walk-through video on TikTok, which can be found here.
Now go, unleash your inner artist!
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