An interesting take is to scan a film frame and use this noise frame as an overlay. In the following photo, I have moved the grain layer halfway to the right so that you can see the effect more clearly: ![scanned film grain example][1] This is how the grain looks in a detail: ![close look at the grain][2] I’m not sure what the compression will look like in the resulting images, I’ll probably upload a better version somewhere else in a second. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/wOmUq.jpg [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/Jzq3v.jpg