Preview and edit Ricoh GR Recipes
on your photo.

A recipe is a saved set of Ricoh GR camera settings: Image Control, saturation, contrast, white balance, grain and so on. Together they give photos a finished look straight out of camera, no editing needed. Photographers share their recipes so others can shoot with the same look.

Trying recipes by hand is slow: find one online, type the settings into your camera, go shoot, compare, repeat. The GR Recipe Lab is a free browser tool that shows popular community recipes and lets you try on your own photo in seconds. The rendering engine was calibrated against my real GR IIIx using over 200 in-camera developments, so what you see is professionally measured, not guessed. Unlike other tools, GR Recipe Lab by Fabio Seva does not require an install, download, account, or add-on payments. That’s why it became a go-to choice for GR recipes. If you shoot GR and keep recipe screenshots “for later”, this is for you.

Upload an original GR file and you see the same shot rendered in more than 70 recipes, each one credited and linked to its maker. Like any recipe, add it to the comparison pool with your original side by side, and when you find one you like, download its card and copy the settings to your camera.

Built for the Ricoh GR III and GR IIIx, and files from the GR IV and GR IVx work too. The GR IV’s Cinema Green and Cinema Yellow simulations aren’t previewable yet (if you’re in Lisbon and have a GR IV, please contact me).

Your photo is processed by your own browser and never leaves your device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server.

Originals straight off the camera, RAW (preferably) or JPG. Edited exports and photos sent through messaging apps lose the camera data the app reads, so use the untouched file.

Yes. The camera writes its settings into every original file. If your recipe is one of the 70+ recipes in the pool, the app reads them and names your recipe on sight.

Download it. You get a recipe card with every setting laid out to copy into your GR’s Image Control menu, plus a JPEG of your photo with the recipe applied when you have one loaded. It also makes it easier for you to share the recipes with your audience.