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.

This tag includes both traditional analog film grain and digital camera sensor noise.

Examples

See also

• chromatic aberration
• glitch
• heavy film grain
• lens flare
• static
• test card
• adversarial noise

External links

• Wikipedia: Film grain
• Wikipedia: Image noise

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

The following tags implicate this tag: heavy_film_grain (learn more).