Film recipes with a strong red or warm-red colour emphasis
Red tones recipes push the colour balance and saturation towards the red end of the spectrum — deeper and more saturated than the orange and amber recipes, with a stronger presence in the shadows and midtones as well as the highlights.
These are a niche choice and not everyone’s taste, but for autumn foliage, certain sunset conditions and creative colour work they can produce striking results. A smaller category, but with a distinctive character all of its own.
These recipes are drawn from both the site and the Film Recipes App, ordered first by how closely each recipe was designed to capture the red tones character — from direct interpretations through to inspired-by looks — and then by popularity within each group. App-only recipes are included and marked 🔒.
Red Tones Film Simulation Recipes
These 70 recipes are a selection from a much larger red tones collection. The full set — all 93 — is available in the Film Recipes App for iOS and Android.