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Give Your Photos That Gritty Film Look Using Photoshop Blend Modes and Dust Textures
I shoot a lot of product and lifestyle work, and somewhere between “clean and sharp” and “actually interesting,” there’s a sweet spot that analog film textures can unlock. Not because it looks like real film – it doesn’t, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying – but because a little grain, a little dust, a little edge color does something to a photo that no amount of contrast sliders can replicate.