All Stylize effects do the same thing; they detect the edges of your image and accent them in various ways. Stylize has four effects: Edge Detect, Emboss, Outline, and Relief.
By detecting the edges and highlighting them, it can give your images an interesting 3D quality:
Edge Detect has only one control: Angle. This determines the angle of your edges. Edge Detect will remove all the color from your image except for the color within the edges:
Emboss also has Angle as its only control. It turns your photo into a gray-scale image but makes all the lines look raised or embossed.