Add grain
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Add grain is a Generate effect.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Add film grain onto a layer.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Control | Range | Default | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intensity | Slider | 0 to 200; higher | 50 | Per cent |
| Size | Slider | 0.5 to 20; down to 0.1 and higher | 2 | Pixels at composition size |
| Softness | Slider | 0 to 100 | 50 | Per cent |
| Red | Slider | 0 to 200; higher | 100 | Per cent |
| Green | Slider | 0 to 200; higher | 100 | Per cent |
| Blue | Slider | 0 to 200; higher | 100 | Per cent |
| Monochrome | Checkbox | On or off | Off | - |
| Shadows | Slider | 0 to 200; higher | 100 | Per cent |
| Midtones | Slider | 0 to 200; higher | 100 | Per cent |
| Highlights | Slider | 0 to 200; higher | 100 | Per cent |
| Animate | Checkbox | On or off | On | - |
| Seed | Seed | Any whole number | A fresh random seed per instance | - |
| Mix | Slider | 0 to 100 | 100 | Per cent |
| Blend | Dropdown | Normal · Darken · Multiply · Colour burn · Linear burn · Darker colour · Add · Lighten · Screen · Colour dodge · Lighter colour · Overlay · Soft light · Hard light · Linear light · Vivid light · Pin light · Hard mix · Difference · Exclusion · Subtract · Divide · Hue · Saturation · Colour · Luminosity | Normal | - |
| Matte | Layer | Any layer in the composition | None | - |
| Invert | Checkbox | On or off | Off | - |
| Channel | Dropdown | Luminance · Alpha · Red · Green · Blue | Luminance | - |
In the Effect Controls panel:
- Matte scales Intensity per pixel: white grains at the full Intensity, grey more finely, black not at all. Invert reads that matte inverted.
What each control does
Section titled “What each control does”- Intensity: how strong the grain is.
- Size: how big a grain is.
- Softness: 0 gives hard-edged square cells.
- Red, Green and Blue: how much grain each channel gets, as a percentage of Intensity.
- Monochrome: if enabled the grain is monochrome.
- Shadows, Midtones and Highlights: how much grain each part of the tone range gets.
- Animate: changes the grain pattern each frame automatically if enabled.
- Seed: which random grain pattern to use.
- Mix: how much of the result replaces the original.
- Matte and Invert drive the strength of the effect from another layer’s brightness; see Effects.