film grain
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- clearThoughts
what's the best to add 'nice' looking film grain onto a digital image?
I heard there is some software that even lets you choose the type of film you want to recreate...Anybody heard of it?
Could be a standalone software or PS plugin...
- xcreonx0
There are a few plugins for After Effects that do this pretty convincingly. Do you have access to AE?
The AE plugins I've used before are Magic Bullet "Looks" or "Misfire", Video Copilot's "Twitch" and even AE's built-in grain effect. Also Digieffects used to make an old film plugin.
Hope that helps.
- I do have access to AEclearThoughts
- Thanks for the tipsclearThoughts
- AE grain tools are top. Wish they'd roll them into PS.zarkonite
- MrNibs0
Totally RAD actions for Photoshop might have something good.
- I'm assuming you meant still digital imageMrNibs
- nice site! this might come in handy pretty soon!!OSFA
- sweet.JamesThomson
- bored2death0
Open PS Filter > Artistic > Film Grain
When you're done, punch yerself in the nutsack.
- ha ha!
MrNibs - LOL!!!!AVAVA
- twicemnmlst
- cuntishneferiu
- er.. i did that today
but then changed to overlay and opacity to about 10% so it actually looked okProjectile
- ha ha!
- clearThoughts0
@bored2death was looking for something slightly more sophisticated than the PS film grain effect
- clearThoughts0
I know some people do it by scanning film and adding it on top of the image
- dskz0
spit on it
- What about shitting on it? Then applying a Gaussian blur maybe?clearThoughts
- ArmandoEstrada0
http://www.niksoftware.com/index…
try the color effects and BW Silver Effects both have good grain controls.
- detritus0
Dunno, but whenever I've wanted a slightly decent grain on something, I've tried applying the standard PS film grain on images at different resolutions to the one I'm working on, then dicking around with Blur, then levels... then scaling up/down to the image I'm intending it for. But yeah.. as I said, I don't know.
- Even just try - normal PS grain filter with a *slight* blur.detritus
- harv0
Amazingly accurate film repo
- DoTheMacarena0
If you are compositing an image and want to match the FG to the BG (or vice versa), you really should be sampling and applying the grain by channel, as most of the time, one channel will show more grain than the others.
If you're looking to apply an overall grain for a stylized look or otherwise, than the suggested plugins or scanning a blank negative should be more than efficient.
or you can just use PS film grain and punch yourself in the nutsack.
- xcarlx0
have you tried scanning slide film?
- Ambushstudio0
Investigate about this plugin called Alien Skin, thats the one that lets you choose type of film. I started using it about a year ago and it really changed my workflow, it gives me a great film look, before I could achieve it but it'll take me a long time and a few nasty tricks.
I really recommend it.
- this is what harv recommended, but yes. +1DoTheMacarena
- oops sorry for the timeline, didn't read the whole thing.Ambushstudio
- Tungsten0
duplicate layer,
filter / noise ... add noise (gaussian / monochrome)
blur top layer a little bit, then reduce opacity slightly.
every image will need a slightly different amount of noise and blurring. It will also depend on whether it's being printed or viewed on screen.
It helps to know what real film grain looks like on a darkroom print, and not what film grain looks like when it is scanned. They're totally different in appearance.- It also helps to adjust your output levels to mimic how highlights are recorded on film ie. not blown outTungsten
- dMullins0
There are literally thousands of ways to do this. Everything from custom one-off effect plug-ins, to full suites of Nikon/Canon/etc. plug-ins. I have a nice set of Nikon filter/plug-ins a while ago from a photog, and it has a ton of this scratchy/vintage/film grain stuff. Send me an email.
- vaxorcist0
I personally have a bunch of scanned grainy b/w prints that I made of grey walls at various exposures, that way I can use them as layer overlays in ps and tweek them....
- goygoygoy0
silver effects pro!
http://www.niksoftware.com/silve…
examples:
http://pixelplay.net/photoblog/i…
http://pixelplay.net/photoblog/i…
- lumedia0
drop this file in your presets>patterns folder. The grain is made from a tmax 3200 scan. There is one for RGB and one for CMYK. They are perfectly balanced at 50% gray so there is no color shift when you overlay them over your image. Should be all you ever need.
- OSFA0
very nice!!!