Muted Tone Film Recipes

Film recipes with lower saturation

This page is for the film recipes that help you capture a softer look with faded tones and lower saturation. They span a range of film simulations and colour balances, but share a pale tones look. These recipes are useful in capturing the mood of the golden hour or for calming a high contrast scene.

As a favourite style of mine, there is quite a long list of recipes here. A top three to try first might be Classic Gold, Fading Memory and Silver Slate, but I am also super excited about my recent look, Flatpack.

Muted Colour Film Simulation Recipes

Childhood Vacation, Memories as Faded Prints

Re-Analog, Coastal Chrome by Marcel Fraij

Titanium, Muted with a Metallic Tone

Milestone, a Classic Chrome for 10,000

Flatpack, Matte 35mm Film Recipe

Pale Ale, for Nostalgic Landscape Images

Outdoor Cinema, Dreamy Low Contrast

Wychwood Pale, for Walks in the Winter Woods

Aquamarine, Watery Blue Tones Bleach Bypass

Silver Slate, Mineral Tone Bleach Bypass

Quartz 400, Pocket Camera Instant Film

Expired Geographic, Aged Eterna for Nature

Emergency Flare, for Maximum Light Leak

Winter Eterna, a Matte Cinematic Style

Citric Acid, Lemon Tone Bleach Bypass

Driftwood, Creamy Eterna Bleach Style

Melatonin, Calm & Muted by Grant Teng

Chromance, Tobias Gruber’s Classic Chrome

UB40, Natural Tone Bleach Bypass

Polaroid 66, for Retro Toned Memories

Jorrvaskr, from the Wilds of Skyrim

Vinterskog, Deep Tones Forest Recipe

Chromium 44, a Muted Classic Chrome

Autumn Vibe, Capture the Efterårsstemning

Yakisugi Green, Adapted Yakisugi Film Recipe

Ultraviolet, for a Pretty Purple Mood

Old Fossil, for Muted Natural Shots

Lomochrome 77, with Creamy Muted Tones

Deep Forest, a Mellow Woodland Look

October Gold, Autumn Tones by Marcel Fraij

Muted Gold, for Warm Nostalgic Images

Pale Blue Dot, Bleach Bypass for Planet Earth

Nostalgic Fujicolor, for Subtle Classic Negative

Alchemy Cinematic, for Urban Soft Tones

Cinematic Cool with Eterna Bleach Bypass

Olive Garden, a Tasty Tone on Cloudy Days

Yakisugi Film Recipe, by Mehdi Berrada

Urbex Cinematic, Eterna for Urban Exploration

Festival Cream, for the Hazy Days of Summer

Retrochrome Plus for Contrast + Retro

Aged Kodak Portra, for Old Tones 35mm

Superia Max, a Faded Fujicolor Look

Classic Gold, like Aged & Faded Kodak Gold

Arthouse Cinema, the Sophisticated One

Blanko Bleach for Skies, Trees & Seas

Rosa Negative for Golden Hour Beauty

Soft Cinnamon with Delicious Tones

Cinematone for a Moody Netflix Look

Fading Memory with a Wistful Soft Vibe

Wildwood Deep for a Dark & Moody Feel

Lifestyle Negative for Magazine Style

Pale Negative for Classic Negative Light

Soft Chrome for Gentle Natural Tones

Decade Print for a Faded Prints look

Hipsta Ray Mark II in a Creamy Retro Style

Cinechrome for Smooth Cinematic Tones

Mistychrome to enhance Mellow Mist & Fog

Summer Bleach film recipe for Faded Warmth

Agfachrome Cool for Agfa Style Tones

🌊 Let’s get creative in this new round of The Film Recipes Challenge 🏄 The recipe is the burned and faded look, Childhood Vacation, which loves to be over exposed. Try some images and share a selection in the Film Recipes Facebook Group or the comments on the recipe page. Open to everyone, until end of 8th June. Tag #childhoodvacation ☀️

More Muted Tone Recipes

This site has a particularly strong representation of soft tones and faded tones. The majority of recipes have the colour turned down to mute the saturation. Other sites don’t have quite as many, but there are some good ones if you dig deep. Here are a few to explore…

Eterna Based Recipes

Recipes that use the Eterna Cinema simulation will be softer in tone than most, because of the qualities of the base simulation. I enjoy working with it for this reason too.