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Make your photo
look like film

Open a photo, pick one of eleven films, and save it at full size. Each film brings its own print and its own grain. Free in your browser, and nothing uploads.

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  • Full size
  • Your photo stays on your device
Six close details of portraits, each one on a different film

One photo, on film.

Four of the eleven films, on the same frame. Pick one to see it large. A negative goes onto the paper it was sold to be printed on. A slide or an instant is its own print.

A woman resting in hard sun against a pale blue lounger, printed on Portra 800 over Portra Endura: warm skin and soft highlights The same woman on Velvia 100, its own positive: the blue pushed hard and the shadows deep The same woman on FP-100C, a peel-apart instant: warm blacks under cool whites The same woman on FP-3000B, a black and white peel-apart instant with open blacks and heavy grain Portra 800 · Portra EnduraVelvia 100FP-100CFP-3000B
Film

Portra 800

Fast portrait film on the soft paper Kodak coated for skin. Warm, forgiving highlights and grain you can see.

The Portra 800 page

Velvia 100

The most saturated film here, and its own positive. Steep contrast, deep shadows, color pushed hard.

The Velvia 100 page

FP-100C

Peel-apart instant color. A short four and a half stop scale, warm blacks under cool whites.

The FP-100C page

FP-3000B

Peel-apart instant black and white at EI 3200. Open blacks, reds that go light, and the heaviest grain here.

The FP-3000B page

Seven more in the tool: Ektar 100, Gold 200, C200, Pro 400H, Vision3 50D, Verita 200D and Ektachrome 100.

Every film here is made by the simulation from published measurement data, with the grain set by eye. The curves are measured profiles by Andrea Volpato, from the open spektrafilm project. They are used unmodified, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The two peel-apart instants are the exception: their curves were traced by us from Fujifilm's data sheets. The credits page carries the full list.

Four steps.

On a computer or a phone. Nothing to install.

1 · Open a photo

Drop it on the page or paste it. JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF, or a raw file at the preview it carries.

2 · Pick a film

Every film shows your own photo, so you choose by looking. Hold V to see it as shot.

3 · Edit it

Brightness, contrast, shadows, highlights, white balance and saturation, under the film.

4 · Save it at full size

A JPEG or PNG with every pixel. Nothing added, and your original is never changed.

Edited in Abney.

Portraits, streets and coastlines. Every photo on this page was edited in Abney, the photo app this tool comes from.

Hold V to see it as shot

Hold the key, or hold the button on the photo on a phone, and the film comes off. Let go and it is back. The quickest way to see what a film does to the light and the skin.

The grain comes with the film

There is no grain slider. Each film carries its own, from the clean Vision3 50D to FP-3000B, the heaviest here. This is Portra 800, the grainiest of the color films, up close on skin. To change the grain, pick a different film.

Full size, nothing added

The file you save has every pixel of the one you opened, as a JPEG or a PNG. No watermark and no export cap. The browser does the work on your own device and writes a new file, so your original is never touched.

It works on a phone

Open a photo from your camera roll, swipe through the films under it, and save it. HEIC opens where the browser reads it.

Questions

Is the film simulation free?

Yes. There is no account, no watermark and no export cap.

Does my photo get uploaded?

No. The browser reads the file from your computer, does all the work on your own device, and writes a new file back. Nothing is posted anywhere, and your original is never changed.

Which film stocks can I pick?

Eleven, from Portra 800 and Ektar 100 to Velvia 100 and the two peel-apart instants. Every film has a page of its own that opens with a photo already on that film.

Can I open a raw file?

Yes, at the preview the camera wrote into the file. That preview is a JPEG the camera made, so a raw file opens fast and does not carry the extra range a full develop would. Most iPhone ProRAW files carry no preview, and those are developed on your device instead. JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC and TIFF open as themselves.

Can I add film grain, or turn it down?

No, not on its own. There is no grain slider. Each film carries its own grain: a slow film like Ektar 100 shows little and FP-3000B shows the most of any film here. Pick a different film to change it.

Where do the film curves come from?

They are measured profiles from the open spektrafilm project, used unmodified. The credit and the licence sit under the four films near the top of this page, and the credits page carries the full list. The two peel-apart instants are ours, traced from Fujifilm's own data sheets.

Can I use this instead of Lightroom?

For one photo at a time, yes. Brightness, contrast, shadows, highlights, white balance and saturation are there, with a film on top. There is no catalog and no crop, and most raw files open at the preview the camera wrote into them.

Your photo,
on film.

Open one, pick a film, and save it at full size. Free, in your browser, and nothing uploads.

Try it on our photo