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A Forked recipe starts from another creator’s recipe and adapts its camera settings. Forking lets you publish your version with your own photos, title, notes, tags, and setting changes while keeping the source recipe connected. Forking doesn’t give you exclusive ownership of the underlying camera settings.

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Create a Fork

  1. Open the recipe you want to adapt.
  2. Choose Fork.
  3. Add your own reference photos.
  4. Adapt the recipe settings for your version.
  5. Add a title that isn’t identical to the source title, plus a description, tags, and shooting notes for your version.
  6. Publish the fork.
The original settings are pre-filled so you can see exactly what you’re changing. Your own photos should show the result of your version rather than reusing another photographer’s work.

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What Counts as a Fork

A fork adapts an existing recipe rather than keeping it unchanged. Examples include:
  • Choosing a different film simulation or compatible camera setup.
  • Changing white balance, Kelvin, or red/blue shift.
  • Changing grain, dynamic range, D-Range Priority, tone, colour, or clarity.
  • Changing sharpness, noise reduction, monochrome toning, or another supported field.
A new title, description, tag, or photo doesn’t adapt the settings. If every setting is unchanged, Recipe Room offers to save the version as a Community recipe instead. Your title may retain a recognisable part of the source name, but it must not be identical to the source title. A real example comes from Fuji X Weekly: Reggie Ballesteros used Kodak Portra 400 as the starting point for Reggie’s Portra. The new title keeps the Portra reference while making the adaptation distinct. Read Fuji X Weekly’s comparison for the source example.

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Source and Credit

Creating a Forked recipe requires a source recipe. This keeps your version connected to the work you adapted, but you don’t need to add a creator tag to the title. Using Fork attaches the source automatically, including when you start from an existing fork or Community recipe. That source cannot be changed or removed. If you choose Forked while creating a Recipe manually, select its source before publishing. A source you added manually can be corrected through Edit, but a Forked recipe must retain a source. Where supported, the source creator may receive activity when their recipe is forked, and the original recipe may show how many versions the community has created from it.

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How People Discover Your Fork

Your fork can appear on your profile, in Search and Explore, in public collections, and through posts that link to it. Its own photos, tags, camera, film simulation, and creator activity help people understand what makes your version different. Where a source link is shown, viewers can discover your work and move back to the source recipe or creator. Read How Recipes and Posts Connect for the wider community loop.

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If You Want to Keep the Original Unchanged

Save it privately, link the original recipe to your post, or publish a Community recipe. Use Fork only when you adapt the settings. Forked recipes must still follow Recipe Room’s ownership, attribution, and community rules.