The Film Recipes App

The Film Recipes Feed

Find inspiration from activities within the app. The Film Recipes Feed brings toether a number of activites to surface current trends.

You can see information about new recipes, hidden gems and those being added by users to their favourites. It’s also a place to see galleries of images shared by other users and enter photography challenges.

These regular community challenges are not only a fun way to try out new recipes, but galleries of user submissions appear in the app, both in the feed here, but also on the film recipe cards as additional photo samples that help other users.

See a sample of the film recipes feed to get a feel for what’s happening now in the app.

Get Inspired with the Daily Shuffle

There’s a saying, ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’. I think we can all find ourselves doing that, even if we don’t mean to. This is part of why the most popular film recipes on social media are ones named Kodak Portra 400 or Ilford Delta. These recipes are in no way official, and often not very accurate either, but nonetheless their name carries weight.

The Daily Shuffle is a great way to see beyond the name and find new recipes from the photos they produce. This gallery gets regularly refreshed throughout the day with samples from across the entire collection of 600+ recipes. The names are hidden so that you treat each one equally. Feedback from app users is that this is a fun way to find recipes they would never have looked at otherwise.

Silmilar Film Recipes

With over 600 film simulation recipes in the app, finding the right one for your project can be hit and miss. That’s why I have added all of the different ways to discover recipes when using the app.

You might find a recipe that is almost right, and that’s where the similar recipes feature is most useful. Three visually similar recipes are presented on the recipe card and these link to those similar recipes so you can refine your choices.

This is also a fun way to browse through the collection, and you can discover all sorts of different interpretations of a style in this way. It’s my personal favourite way to navigate, reminding me of recipes to try when I am looking for something just a bit different to a recipe I know well.

Your Personal Film Recipe Favourites

Although I use the app every day, the app is for you and I wanted to make sure it had the option to save your own favourite recipes for quick reference on the go.

Every recipe card has a heart icon which you can use to set or unset as a personal favourite. This gets saved anonymously in the cloud in a few seconds and then is available in the Favourites tab on the bottom navigation.

Some app users install the app on more than one device, or want to share it with their family. In this case, you can also share your favourites list as well. If perhaps you like to add a favourite on your tablet before going out to take photos, it will then also show on your phone when you are out and about.

Newest Film Recipes

The process of creating new film recipes is ongoing, and I never quite know where I will get inspiration and ideas from next. Sometimes it is the weather and the season, and sometimes people ask for help in recreating a style they’ve seen somewhere online.

Whatever the inspiration, the new recipes get added to the app as soon as I can, and to help you find what’s new, there’s a section that includes the most recent additions.

If you like to be part of the trend and try the very newest recipes as soon as they are released, then the app and the newest recipe section is the place for you.

Filters to Find Film Recipes by Style Tag

If you are due to travel to a certain location, or you know a bit about the light and weather you will be photographing in, then you will want to see some film recipes that might match the situation.

This is where the search filters come into their own. There are around 30 style categories that the recipes are tagged with, so if you want to shoot in the Golden Hour, or maybe find a Cinematic look, then you can quickly do this with the Style Tags.

You can also filter by Film Simulation, search the recipe names and descriptions, see just the recipes exclusive to the app, and more.

Be part of the Community. Get featured in the App.

As well as a film recipes reference with over 600 recipes (500+ for X Trans IV), the app is also here to help you get inspired and enjoy taking more photos.

All app users are invited to join in the regular film recipe challenges, which run every 2 to 4 weeks. These are open to you, wherever you live and we enjoy seeing photos from all parts of the world.

Pictures are shared in our ‘app only’ Facebook group, or sent in via email form. At the end of each challenge, a gallery of photos is gathered together and added to the app. A selection of these images also feature on the film recipe cards too. So you get featured in the app for everyone to see, and your photos can help people see new ways to use the recipes.

Your Personal Shot Log

Keep a log of which film recipes you used during your phtoography in the Shot Log facility within the app.

This personal photo journal is personal to you, and allows you to log the film recipe used along with useful information like the location, the lighting conditions and which custom slot C1-C7 you were using.

All of the app film recipes can be added to the log, and to make it as useful as possible, teh recipes from a wide selection of other creators as well.

Refer back to your log anytime to remind yourself which recipe you used, and click through quickly to the film recipe details.

Add Tags and Personal Notes to the Recipes

Several app users requested the ability to subdivide their favourites into separate lists, adding notes for planning purposes.

Now in the app, you can tag any recipe with a wide range of additional tags that will open up a new personal filter option in the app.

So, for example, if you have a favourite 4 that you use for street photography, you can now tag and filter to show just these.

You can also add a personal text note, which will show on the recipe cards just for you. e.g. add Rome 2027 on recipes you’ve chose for an upcoming trip, and you can quickly find them again with a search.