Film recipes that recreate the colour quality and texture of photographic prints.
Print-like recipes aim to replicate the particular quality of analogue photographic prints — the slightly lifted blacks, the warm paper base, the colour rendering that differs subtly from a transparency or a digital screen. They draw on the aesthetics of lab-printed 35mm photographs from the 1980s and 90s, when the print itself was the final object rather than a file on a screen.
They work particularly well for subjects with personal or nostalgic associations — family photographs, domestic scenes, holidays — where the print aesthetic adds a layer of meaning that a clean digital rendering would not.
The list below shows 40 recipes drawn from the site and the Film Recipes App — app-only recipes are included and labelled, giving you a complete picture of what’s available for this look.
Print Like Film Recipes
These are 40 of the 73 Print Like recipes in the full library. To browse all of them in one place, get the Film Recipes App — available for iOS and Android.
Browse and filter the complete collection in the Film Recipes App for iOS and Android.