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A Post shows the photograph and tells its story. A Recipe keeps the settings behind the look. Linking connects them without combining them. You can link a Post to your own Recipe or one published by another photographer. Search the whole Recipe Room community and choose the Recipe that was actually used for the photographs. You don’t need to create a copy first. Linking points to the existing Recipe and its creator.
A link doesn’t transfer rights in original content. You keep your Post and photographs. The Recipe remains attributed to its source creator, while its camera settings remain available for anyone to use.
A Recipe only needs to be published once. It can then be linked from as many relevant Posts as needed. This matters when you use the same Recipe across several shoots. Share each set of photographs as a new Post and link the same Recipe again instead of rebuilding it. It also means one Recipe can collect examples from different photographers around the world. Opening the Recipe shows how the look has been used across different subjects, places, and light. When a Post links to a Recipe:
  • The Post shows a linked Recipe card.
  • People can move from the photograph to the full settings.
  • The Recipe shows how many Posts have linked it and lets people open those photographs.
  • Fork activity shows how often photographers have adapted the Recipe into a new version.
  • Both creators remain clearly identified.
  • The Post and Recipe gain another useful route through the community.
Linking can help people discover both pieces of content, but it doesn’t guarantee a particular position in Home, Explore, or Search.

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What stays separate

Deleting or changing a Post doesn’t rewrite the Recipe. Updating a Recipe doesn’t turn its linked Posts into Recipes. Read Recipe Types for the full difference between Custom, Community, and Forked Recipes.

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A simple example

Elise publishes a Recipe called Golden Hour Pastel. Mina uses it unchanged for a landscape shoot and publishes a Post linking Elise’s Recipe. Mina keeps her Post and photographs. Elise remains the Recipe’s source creator. People can move between both, see the settings behind Mina’s photograph, and browse other Posts that use the same Recipe. If Mina later changes the white balance or another setting, she can Fork the Recipe and link the new Post to her Fork. The original source remains visible.

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Common questions

No. Link one only when the photographs were made with a Recipe you can identify accurately.
Yes. Link it to as many future Posts as you make with those settings.
No. You can link any public Recipe used for the photographs.
No. The Post and Recipe remain independent and link to each other.