film grain

A grainy, sand-like texture that appears in traditional film photography. Artists sometimes simulate film grain for artistic effect, especially to achieve a cinematic or retro look.

See also

• Film Grain Abuse - When film grain is very pronounced.
• chromatic aberration
• lens flare

External links

• Wikipedia: Film grain
• Wikipedia: Image noise

The following tags are aliased to this tag: grainy and noise_(visual) (learn more).