: How to create this grainy & pixelated effect? How do you recreate the effect as seen in this picture through Photoshop? I'm talking about the grainy texture... I tried using noise filter and

@Karen819

That's not really an effect, it's just dithering with a very limited color palette. Here's an example I just created using it, and the instructions on how to apply this "effect" are just below that.



How to apply it...

Get your picture into Photoshop, and go to Image > Mode > Indexed Color... via the main menu. In the Indexed Color dialog box that appears, set the Palette to "Custom" which will bring up the Color Table dialog box where you can select color swatches to be used for your image. You can click a tile to add a color and Ctrl-click on Windows (probably Cmd-click on Mac) to remove a tile. To create an image similar to the questioner's example, I'd try using three or so colors. In my own example I used black, white, magenta, and a yellow-ish color. Choose your colors and click Ok. Now set the Dither option to "Diffusion" and you can play with the Amount percentage to get the exact look you want. Click Ok and you're done.

Applied to a block of 50% gray...

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@Jessie844

There are so many effects applied on this pic, I applied some of photoshop filters just to match this style, I dont know whether they are useful or not for you but they can make similar output which you can use....

You can apply halftone filter also,in the last i have mentioned some tutorials please see them..

In First image example I applied patchwork this goes bit similar to your image.( Open image in new window for clarity )





In second image example I used Texturizer it also goes similar with your image in this you can change appearance setting from drop down, They all give different output..you can try and match if you need something from there....( Open image in new window for clarity )





In this image example I first applied grain than i reduced this layer opacity, this also goes with your image, you can try hue and saturation and many more effects on this layer to pop out the background though i just tried a bit to show you...( Open image in new window for clarity )





This effect can also achieved with the help of halftone effects :


Halftone effect
Halftone and bitmap effects


Hope this will help a bit...

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@LarsenBagley460

Try using two layers, one for the noise and one for the image.

Start with a gray background and play with the layer effects (overlay, hard light, etc) and the Splatter Filter (under Filter>Brush Strokes, for randomness).

Mess with the layer opacity, and/or add a blur (~10-15%) to your noise layer to decrease the intensity of noise and smooth out the noise, respectively.

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