#thank you anon for giving me an excuse to use that ouat jefferson moment

[kazablanka96]

hi! may i ask how you do your edits? they look awesome, but it doesnt look like the regular film grain effect everyone else uses! i want to achieve that effect too! :)

Hi anon! I’m not sure if by edits you mean gifs or graphics, so here I’m going to talk about the graphics because I’m afraid I’d end up making an unasked-for in-depth tutorial on how I make gifs. If I managed to get this wrong and you meant gifs, please don’t hesitate to correct me.

Creating this effect on edits is the simplest step in making them, tbh. It’s only one step. I’m sure others have better methods, but out of all the more advanced ones I tried, I like this way better, so um, yeah.

I already try to download everything in high quality, but I don’t think that’s as important honestly because one of the best things about the grain effect is that it removes the distortions/weird pixels (idk what they are called but they are the things you really don’t want in your image and usually only get worse with coloring) which come as a byproduct of low quality videos/images.

I’d take a snapshot of the moment I want to use, like this one:

I use Photoshop CS6, but that’s only recently. Photoshop CS5 is pretty much better the same. First things first, I’d convert the image into a Smart Object (Filter > Convert for Smart Filters), resize it (I usually make them bigger than 540px but these are just for demonstration and I don’t want them to take forever to load) then edit it here and there, until I end up with the result I like before adding the effect:

Then I’d duplicate all the layers and merge them (either by selecting them all and choose “Merge Layers” from the right-click  menu, or select them all and click Ctrl+E) (please don’t merge the layers without duplicating them. You want to always have the ability to make changes on your edit.) Then go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and choose somewhere between 5 and 9, depending on how grainy I want my edits and how large the image is. 

And because I’m a nerd, this is what I meant by it fixes the unwanted distortions in an image, which would be really helpful if you make edits. Bucky’s jacket here, for example:

And this is how the image looks like with Noise set to 4 (don’t judge the coloring here, this is me making minimal effort):

 So yeah. I hope this was even slightly helpful to you anon or anyone else.