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How to Create Film Grain Texture in Photoshop

By Robin Whalley

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2025
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About this lesson

Photographer Robin Whalley's six-step method for building a controllable film grain effect in Photoshop: filling a new layer with 50% gray, applying monochromatic Gaussian noise, softening it with Gaussian Blur, then tuning opacity and blend mode (Overlay, Soft Light, Multiply, Screen), including stacking multiple grain layers.