Image · TextureNO.131 / 166

Watch: After the dividing line sweeps past, the whole image gets a layer of fine, dancing grain and slightly dark corners. The plastic digital look is gone at once.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Image · Texture

Film Grain胶片颗粒

Fine grain covering the image, soft highlights, edges not too sharp.

Category: Texture
Group: Basics
Medium: Image
Library: 131 / 166

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Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits.

When to use it

Retro and documentary-style portraits, photos that need warmth.

Prompt template

film texture, fine even grain across the frame, soft highlight halation, slight noise in shadows, gentle edge softness, slightly shifted color.

Sample prompt · generate an image directly

The technique comes first, followed by the subject, scene, details and aspect ratio. Paste it straight into an image model and swap in your own subject.

Film look, even fine grain across the image, highlights blooming softly, a little noise in the shadows, a slight color shift, like Portra 400. Outside a convenience store on a summer evening, two high school students sit on the steps sharing a popsicle, the light box behind them just switched on. 3:2, natural grain, no digital sharpening.

Common pitfalls

Grain so coarse it becomes noise, like low quality.
Adding grain without changing the highlights still looks digital.

Parameter tips

Fine grain; it only looks like film with highlight bloom and a color shift.