Grain

Fine texture laid over an image, borrowed from film. It warms a flat surface and hides the seams of the digital.

Grain is film's texture carried over: the fine, living noise of silver halides that digital images are born without. Laid over a flat surface it restores a sense of material, of the image having been made somewhere physical rather than rendered nowhere.

We add grain as a finishing layer, never baked into the source, in the site's case as a surface treatment the interface applies, so its strength stays adjustable and the master stays clean. The dose matters: at its best grain is felt as warmth, not seen as noise. When you notice it, there is too much.