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AWB+ White Priority+ Recipes version 6
Hello Alex,
I Hope you are well.
The version 6 of you recipes with color tools are amazing.
Thank you very much for all these updates free of charge during the last two years !!!
For new users, I would like to say : be patient, try and test, change your mind in creativity with these recipes. It's a new paradigm in photography that provide artistic creativity.
You can use some recipes with AWB with white priority (T-Max 100, Classic Cinema ... ). But please try also others recipes with AWB/ White Priority if you have this settings on your camera. I use all these recipes with Sony A7R II and A7R IV. I have 10 favorites PP installés on my camera (A7R 4).
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On HEIF Format:
HEIF is a pretty cool feature—it gives you better color and less noise, which makes your photos look great straight out of the camera.—aimed for "ready-to-share" images. However, since it’s still not widely supported across all devices and platforms, it’s not exactly a one-click share experience. You’ll usually need to convert them to JPG first, which adds an extra step and can be a bit annoying. Still, if you're okay with quickly batch-exporting HEIFs to JPG on your PC (which only takes a couple of minutes), you’ll get significantly better image quality than standard JPGs, and it’s far more convenient than working with RAW files.
On Creative Looks and Future Plans: Right now, I don’t plan to make recipes for Creative Looks. After four intense years creating Sony film simulations, I’m honestly burned out. It’s been a rewarding but challenging process, and I’m not excited about starting a whole new preset pack from scratch. At this point, I think there are already more than enough film simulations—sometimes even too many to choose from.
I might revisit Creative Looks later, but for now, they feel too limited. You can only shift colors slightly, which leads to repetitive results. Unlike Picture Profiles, which offer much more control, Creative Looks can feel restrictive.
While Fujifilm has hundreds of recipes (many of them nearly identical), I’ve tried to keep the Sony collection focused on originality and simplicity. I don’t believe more equals better—I believe in a smaller number of high-quality, intentional recipes.
With the latest update, there will be 82 film simulations. I feel I’ve reached a creative limit—new ones would likely just be small variations of what already exists. That’s not exciting to me.
Creative Looks do have some presets with a nice feel (like FL and IN SH), but overall, they lack the depth and control I get with Picture Profiles. Some things just can’t be recreated either way, but PP gives me more flexibility and better results. That’s why I’m sticking with them for now.