35MM FILM BORDER

Give any digital photo the full-frame film scan look

Sprocket holes, yellow edge printing and running frame numbers — the whole 35mm negative border, wrapped around your photo and baked into the exported JPEG. Free, and it all happens in your browser.

Before / after

Original digital photo of a beach boardwalk with no border
Before — plain digital photo
The same photo framed as a 35mm film scan with sprocket holes and yellow edge printing
After — 35mm film sprocket border

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What you get

Real perforations

Rectangular sprocket holes sit along the film bands like a true full-frame scan. Edge printing always lands in the clear rebate between them — never across a hole.

Yellow edge printing

Film stock codes, frame numbers, alignment arrows and DX-style barcode ticks rendered in that unmistakable amber ink-stamp yellow.

Sequential frame numbers

Numbers run across your batch like a real roll — starting at 0A, then 1, 1A, 2 — or randomise per photo.

Follows your photo

Bands wrap top and bottom on landscape shots, left and right on portraits. Nothing is cropped, distorted or letterboxed.

Adjustable rebate

A slider controls how much of your photo shows through the film bands, from solid black to translucent negative base.

Baked into the export

The whole composite — photo, border, perforations and edge text — is rendered into the final JPEG at full resolution.

How to use it

  1. 1.Open QuartzLab '99 and add your photos — JPEG or RAW, one or a whole batch.
  2. 2.Tick 35mm film sprocket border in the settings panel.
  3. 3.Pick sequential or random frame numbers, set your stock code, and tune the rebate opacity.
  4. 4.Export — every photo downloads with its own place in the roll.

Pair it with an amber LED date stamp for the full 90s look — see how to date stamp photos.