Golden tea tones and a vintage brown wash, built on the muted base of Eterna Bleach Bypass.
Darjeeling Gold
Darjeeling Gold is named for the golden tea tone that it gives to images. Like a good cup of Darjeeling, the colour is warm and amber without ever being sweet — a mellow, brown-washed palette that gives everyday scenes a distinctly vintage feel.
The recipe is built on the Eterna Bleach Bypass simulation, which is naturally low in saturation. On its own, that desaturated base gives gritty, muted images; here, it becomes the foundation for something quite different. A dramatic white balance shift — Auto with +8 red and ‑9 blue — brings in a strong colour cast, and because the underlying colour is so restrained, that cast reads as a creamy brown rather than a loud orange. The result is a recipe that is low in saturation by nature, but rich in colour character.
Darjeeling Gold joins a set of recipes in the Film Recipes App with tea and coffee themes, such as Masala Chai, each exploring a different creamy or brown-toned look. If you would like a bolder, bronzed take on the same simulation, Brontosaurus is the place to start.
These tones suit golden hour light and autumn colours, where the warmth in the scene and the warmth in the recipe work together. They are equally at home in any situation where a vintage or nostalgic feel is wanted. Load it up when the light turns amber, and let the tea-coloured glow do the rest.
Darjeeling Gold Film Recipe Settings
| Film Simulation | Eterna Bleach Bypass |
| Grain Effect | Weak, Small |
| Col. Chr. Effect | Off |
| Col. Chr. Blue | Off |
| White Balance | Auto, +8 Red, ‑9 Blue |
| Dynamic Range | DR200 |
| Highlights | 0 |
| Shadows | 1 |
| Colour | ‑1 |
| Sharpness | 0 |
| ISO N.R. | ‑4 |
| Clarity | 0 |
| EV Comp. | 0 |
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Darjeeling Gold Film Recipe: Sample Photos
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Photos taken with the Darjeeling Gold film recipe by members of the Film Recipes community.
Photos by Melissa Scroggins
Photos by Sabrina Magnusson
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Photos by Ann Macdonald
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