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.
A shortlist of 40 teal and cyan tones recipes drawn from both the site and the Film Recipes App, ranked by user favouriting and colour character. Several of the strongest teal looks are exclusive to the app — these are included here and flagged. The app is available on iOS and Android.
Teal & Cyan Tones Film Simulation Recipes
These are the highest-rated recipes from the site and app combined. There are a further 24 recipes in this category exclusively in the Film Recipes App — browse them alongside the full library of 800+ recipes on iOS and Android.