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Film grain
Film grain on a photo, or a grain plate.
What it does
Adds film grain to a photo, or makes a grain plate to put over your footage. The grain is computed, tuned on what sets real film stocks apart.
How
- Film stock: from the finest (50D) to the coarsest (Tri-X). Black and white stocks have a neutral grain, with no color in it; your image stays as it is.
- Format: the same stock shows more grain on a smaller frame: Super 8 is very grainy, 120 very fine.
- Strength and Grain size start from the stock (100 %). Color in the grain: from neutral grain to a grain of its own in each color layer, like color negative.
- Under the preview: 100 % (one pixel of the image = one pixel of the screen; drag to move around) or Fit (the whole image; the grain looks weaker, as on a reduced image). Hold the image to see the before.
- Your photo, then Export the photo (JPEG, full size). Or a grain plate: 50 % grey, tiles seamlessly, to use in Overlay or Soft light in Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere or Resolve.
Good to know
On a negative, grain shows mostly in the shadows and midtones, little in the highlights: the tool does the same. The stock names say “inspired by”: they follow the order of fineness of the real stocks, not a scan.
Your photo stays on your device. Very large photos are reduced to what the device can handle (about 16 megapixels on iPhone).
Free, no account, nothing is sent: it runs in your browser, even offline.
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