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I am trying to imitate the grainy photocopy effect in the poster below. I have found some photoshop tutorials but it doesn't quite give me the exact outcome. I am using the beginning of the video tutorial below. Its a lot lengthier of a process than I thought. A lot of fiddling around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZcrslJfVEs&t=106s

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So far I have created the below following the beginning of the video tutorial which used the threshold to give a posterised effect and I settled for that as the closest I could get. I inverted it because I thought it looked better for the photo. But as you can see looked nothing like the above reference point. There is more grain in it.

Before and after

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  • Does this answer your question? Overlay to make image look dusty with fragmented text The first part of my answer covers the grainy text. graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/108295/…
    – Rafael
    Jul 8, 2022 at 3:37
  • The "duplicates" have also other goals which can make extracting the kernel of the effect difficult. Your case is halftoning with grains (=noise). A narrow grayscale range in a Black and white image really can get the wanted halftone pattern if the image is grainy and the image is tresholded with treshold or preferably curves adjustment layer. A slight slope in the curve is useful. An example (just adding noise) i.stack.imgur.com/52u2i.png It's very sensitive to image contrast, treshold and the amount of noise, only a part of the brightness range gets grays.
    – user82991
    Jul 8, 2022 at 8:30

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