Article · Lenscraft
How to Create Film Grain Texture in Photoshop
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
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.
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