About
About X-Alchemy
Our Mission
To build the most useful and accessible resource for Fujifilm film simulation recipes: a place where photographers can find a look they love, understand how it was made, and put it straight into their own camera.
Fujifilm's JPEG engine is good enough to finish a photograph in camera, and we think that deserves a proper home. Whether you shoot street, portraits, landscapes, or something harder to name, the library and the Academy are here to help you get there without opening an editor.
What You Get
Film Simulation Recipes
Custom in-camera settings shared by the photographers who shoot them, each with the exact values to dial in and the photos they produced.
Recipes From Your Own Photos
Upload a Fujifilm JPEG and we read the settings straight out of its metadata, so sharing a recipe takes a minute rather than an evening.
Camera Specific
Recipes organised by camera model, film simulation, and sensor generation, from X-Trans III bodies through to the latest X-Processor 5 cameras and GFX.
The Academy
Free guides on exposure, colour, composition, and film simulation craft, plus a glossary covering every setting you will meet on an X Series camera.
Film Recipe Builder
Describe a mood, a film stock, or a scene and get a complete recipe tuned to your camera. Part of X-Alchemy Pro.
Free To Take Part
Browsing, sharing, favouriting, commenting, and following are free for everyone, as is every Academy article. The paid tiers add tools, not access.
Our Values
Community First
The library is built by the people who use it. Recipes come from photographers, not from us.
Open & Accessible
The knowledge stays free. No recipe, guide, or glossary entry sits behind a paywall.
Tested, Not Theoretical
Recipes are meant to be shot before they are shared, with real photos to show what they actually do.
Supporting X-Alchemy
X-Alchemy is and always will be free to use at its core. To help fund development and unlock more advanced creative tools, we offer two optional paid tiers.
X-Alchemy Pro
£4.99/month
Or £3.99/month billed annually, which works out at £47.88 for the year. Unlocks the AI-powered Film Recipe Builder (25 recipes a month, tuned to your camera), saved drafts, batch import from a folder of JPEGs, the guided Academy pathway, and priority support. Cancel anytime.
Founders
£149 one-time
A limited run of 20 seats for early supporters, with no recurring charges. One payment, everything in Pro for the operating life of X-Alchemy, 100 AI recipes a month, and a numbered Founders badge on your profile. Once the seats are gone, they're gone.
See full details on our Pricing page.
Developed by Charlie Martina