From the course: Enhancing an Environmental Portrait with Photoshop
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Adding film grain - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Enhancing an Environmental Portrait with Photoshop
Adding film grain
Digital capture is stunning. The precision really is phenomenal. Yet sometimes a digitally captured image can be too perfect and that's definitely the case here. I want to create a photograph which is timeless and maybe which has a little bit of a nostalgic appeal. So here I'm going to add some film grain, I'm going to add some imperfection in order to smooth out this photograph and to give it a different feel. So in order to add a film grain step we're going to go through a handful of different steps. So this may be one of those movies that you'll want to watch a couple of times. Well before we get to the effect let's first organize our Layers panel. Click in one of your layers for your color adjustments and then hold down the Shift key and click in another and let's group those together. To do that press Command+G on a Mac or Ctrl+G on Windows and let's name these layers color. In this way we can turn on and off all of those color effects. Next what we need to do is to merge all of…
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