Film recipes with teal, cyan and blue-green colour tones
Teal has become one of the defining colour grades of contemporary photography and film — that blue-green shift in the shadows that contrasts with warm highlights. These recipes produce something in that territory, using colour chrome, white balance shifts and simulation choices to push towards cyan and teal.
The effect works particularly well for coastal and water photography, winter scenes and urban photography at dusk. Several of these recipes also work well for the kind of moody, cinematic look that suits street photography.
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 teal & cyan character — from direct interpretations through to inspired-by looks — and then by popularity within each group. App-only recipes are included and marked 🔒.
Teal & Cyan Tones Film Simulation Recipes
This list shows 60 teal & cyan recipes from the site and app combined. All 79 — including those not shown here — are available in the Film Recipes App for iOS and Android.