Effect · animated
Film dust and scratches effect
Specks, hairs and scratches, like projected film.
Without
With Film Dust
How it works
Film Dust scatters light and dark specks over the frame, with the occasional vertical scratch and stray hair. The pattern changes many times a second on the Motion clock, so animated exports flicker like an old projector.
Effects apply to the finished frame, so Film Dust works with every style, and the Intensity slider sets how strong it is. Because it animates, it shows fully in GIF, MP4 and WebM exports.
Tips
- Pair with Film Grain, Vignette and a Vintage grade.
- Animated exports show it best.
- Keep it light over detailed styles.
More effects
- VignetteDarken the corners to pull the eye to the centre.
- Scan LinesHorizontal lines and a rolling bright band, like an old monitor.
- ChromaticSplit the image into offset red and cyan copies.
- BloomMake bright glyphs glow into the dark around them.
- Film GrainMoving monochrome noise, like photographic film.
- GlitchDisplaced slices and colour bars, like a corrupted signal.
- PixelateDownsample the finished frame into big square blocks.
- HalftoneA newspaper dot screen over your image.