We've extracted grain structures, dust & scratches, light leaks, date imprints, film borders, and all sorts of other analogue artefacts from thousands of rolls of film, using industry-grade film processors and scanners.
These have been meticulously crafted into easy to use overlays to give your digital images an analog feel.
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Add Analogue Soul
Combine different grain structures, film simulations, date stamps, light leaks and film borders to breathe life into your digital photographs.
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Endless editing possibilities
By creating your edits using our additive, modular workflow, you can quickly arrive at endless varieties of film looks and finishes.
See how we make our film overlays and textures
All the best analogue ingredients extracted, formatted, and ready to use.
Grain structures
An essential part of film magic lies in the grain and texture.
We've collected the finest grain structures out - complete with tiny scuffs, scratches, creases, spots of chemistry, and other imperfections. These unique details are essential for creating nuanced grain.
First of the frame burns
The first frame on a roll of film often has a unique 'burn' across a portion of the photograph. This is a result of light hitting a portion of the negative while loading a roll into a camera.
An iconic and quintessential part of the analogue look!
Date and time imprints
A lot of film cameras, especially point and shoots from the 80's - 00's, had the ability to print the date, time and sometimes special messages in the corner of the frame.
We've found all the rarest and most exciting imprints out there and collected them for your use.
Light leaks and fogging
A common artefact you see in film photography are light leaks, where light has entered the camera and exposed extra luminescence across the frame. These come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colours, and are perfect for adding extra grit and texture to your photos.
Damaged and strange films
Not every roll of film ends up perfect!
Water leaking through rolls, film with mould, moscato leaking into a bag all over a film camera, pen marks; there's endless ways for strange artefacts to turn up on film negatives, and we've made sure to pluck out all the strangest ones!
Made from industry lab machines
All our analogue artefacts have come from real film, processed through real machines, with an absolute attention to detail and quality.
We have carefully acquired and mainted some of the finest film processors, scanners and other lab machines to ensure the finest quality possible.
Spot the difference
To create the best colour gradings of film stocks we could, we shot endless amounts of side-by-side photographs on film and digital, using the exact same exposure settings and focal lengths, then painstakingly matched the colours and tones.
Film Photo
Shot with a Konica Hexar RF, 24mm lens, on Kodak Colorplus 200. Scanned with a Noritsu S600.
Digital Photo
Shot on a Fujifilm X-Pro 3, 24mm lens, RAW. Processed with Grainmaker, using our 'Colourplus' grading and a 'Light grain' selection
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