The Sony Creator System

A recipe is a Creative Look you can copy: one of Sony’s bases (ST, PT, NT, VV, VV2, FL, IN, SH, BW, SE — plus FL2/FL3 on the newest bodies) plus Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Fade, Saturation, Sharpness, Sharpness Range, and Clarity, and usually white balance. People share the numbers. You type them into the camera. There is no file to download.

Creative Look is the in-camera finish for stills and video. It first shipped on the A7S III (2020); the body people actually search is the A7 IV. It replaced Creative Style on newer menus. Picture Profile is still there for S-Cinetone, S-Log, and HLG — footage you plan to grade. S-Cinetone is a Picture Profile gamma, not a Creative Look. The cards on this site are Look recipes, not PP.

Open a recipe. On the camera: MENU → Exposure/Color → Color/Tone → Creative Look (or Fn). Pick the base, type the eight sliders, then white balance if the recipe lists it. Save a Custom Look or dump the whole state to Memory Recall. Shoot RAW+JPEG. The Look is in the JPEG.

A7S III, A7 IV, A7 V, A7R V, A7C II, A7CR, A1, A1 II, A9 III, A6700, ZV-E10 II, ZV-E1, FX3, FX30, FX2, RX1R III. FL2/FL3 only on the newest of those. Not on A7 III, first-gen A7C, A6400, A6600, A6100, or ZV-E10 I — those cameras use Creative Style. The recipes here will not apply; there is no Fade slider.

Yes. The same Look sits on stills and video. For stills, shoot RAW+JPEG so you keep a RAW if the JPEG is wrong. For video, the Look is baked into the recorded file. That is not a LUT, and it is not Picture Profile.

You do not have to. That is the point of SOOC JPEG. If you want to grade, keep the RAW. Lightroom will not show Fade or Clarity on that RAW; Imaging Edge Edit can put a Creative Look back on a Sony RAW.

Those names are analog-inspired Creative Look recipes people use on Sony, not Fujifilm modes. Typical starting bases: FL or IN for Portra-like skin, VV2 or ST for Kodak Gold warmth, IN with tungsten white balance for Cinestill 800T night colour. Each recipe page lists the base plus the sliders so you can copy it in-camera.

Yes. No account needed to view recipe settings. Browse a recipe, type it into the camera. Create an account only if you want to submit your own recipes.

There is no best. We usually start from FL or PT. SH (Soft High-key) if the light is already bright. IN if the room already has colour. White balance matters as much as the sliders; 5200–5800 K is a common daylight starting point, not a rule.

Picture Profile is still on new Sony bodies. Gamma, colour mode, and knee live there — S-Cinetone, S-Log3, HLG. Use it when you will grade. Use Creative Look when you want a finished JPEG or video out of the camera. Sony does not have Fujifilm film simulations. Older stills cameras (A7 III, A7C I, A6400, A6600) have Creative Style instead of Look; those bodies cannot use the recipes on this site as written.