JPG film grain effect.

A little more than you would for print, 15 to 25 percent, because the platform's compression softens it. Monochrome and color-matched grain survive that better than random colored specks.

Pick one style and keep it. Warm and nostalgic: color-matched grain in color. Moody and editorial: monochrome grain with black and white on. Consistency is what makes a feed recognizable.

Not if it is light. Heavy grain reads as a filter; 8 to 15 percent reads as texture. Photographers shoot film today for its qualities, not its age.

Video compression is harsher still and can turn grain into blocks. Use it on feed posts, carousels and covers, where it can be seen.

Grain on top of a warm grade: lifted blacks, faded highlights, warm midtones. Do the color work first, in an editor or with the tone changer, and add the grain last.

Yes. Sampled grain for product shots, film grain for travel, color-matched for portraits. Match the grain to the mood of the content.

Film grain scatters random colored specks, like expired color film. Monochrome grain is gray only, the silver halide look. Color-matched grain nudges each speck a little away from the pixel's own color, so it blends. Sampled grain reuses colors found elsewhere in the photo, and tinted grain uses one color you pick.

The amount is the share of pixels that get a speck. 8 to 15 percent adds texture you feel more than see; 20 to 40 is visible film character; above 50 it reads as damaged or experimental film.

Each pattern is random, and no two frames of real film share one either. Click New pattern until the specks fall where they suit the photo; the same amount and style keep a series consistent even though every pattern differs.

No. The file is decoded, drawn and re-encoded by your browser's canvas, and the page makes no request with it. You can load the page, go offline and keep working; nothing is stored either.

No. The "JPG film grain effect" tool is free and opens without a sign-in, an account or an install.

Nothing. The "JPG film grain effect" tool holds your input in the page's memory, so closing or reloading the tab clears it, and it saves nothing in this browser.

Up to 100 MB per file, the limit the tool states under its drop area. A larger file is refused with a plain message instead of being decoded.

No, it takes one file at a time. If you drop or choose several, only the first is used; run the tool again for the next one.

The edit is written as a PNG because PNG stores every pixel exactly, with a full alpha channel, so the result can be edited again without a second round of loss.

No. The browser decodes the image and the tool writes a new file from its pixels, so camera EXIF, GPS position and text chunks in the original are not copied into the result. Keep the original file if you need them.

No. The result has the same width and height in pixels as the source.

Closest to the "JPG film grain effect" tool: Photo grain generator, Warm and cool photo tones, Batch photo color styling, Vintage photo effect. Each opens on its own page, free and in the browser.

The "JPG film grain effect" tool is one of 44 in its group. The group's page, /tools/jpg, lists them all.

The tool is free. Its interface is built from shadcn.io's own components (Button, Input, Slider and the rest of the registry under /ui), which come in React, Vue, Svelte and Solid. Pro adds the blocks and templates for the product around it.