Skin tones that read as film.
Most film filters wreck skin. Cineon models the spectral response that makes Portra and Kodachrome flatter a face — warm midtones, gentle roll-off, halation in the highlights — so portraits feel shot, not filtered.
Try it for free. No credit card required.
Loved by 12,000+ photographers — and counting
Why the look holds up
Color science that flatters, not filters.
Physically-based engine
Grain and color modeled from real emulsion.
Cineon doesn't approximate film with a LUT. It models how emulsion responds across the spectrum — the warm midtones, the gentle highlight roll-off, the grain that reacts to exposure — the physics that made Portra and Kodachrome the standard for decades.
Infinite, reorderable chains
Every parameter is yours, in any order.
Push exposure, swap the color stock, add halation, tune grain by zone, then reorder the whole chain and watch the look change. No fixed pipeline, no preset you can't take apart.
Built for sets
Dial a look once, carry it across the shoot.
Save your chain as a preset and apply it to a whole campaign for a consistent editorial look. Switch between frames instantly — no render queue, no external app, no GPU bottleneck.
Results
Shot once, processed forever.
The honest comparison
Cineon vs. the usual suspects
From portrait & fashion shooters
Portraits that look shot, not filtered
“I've never had a film tool get skin right. Cineon nails the Portra roll-off without going orange in the midtones. My retouching time dropped.”
“The halation on backlit hair is the detail that sells it. It looks like a window, not a blur.”
“I build a look per campaign and save it. Consistency across a whole editorial set, finally.”
“Kodachrome skin in a browser tab. I don't know how, but it's right.”
“Reordering grain after color instead of before changed how my portraits feel. That control matters.”
“Cancelled the plugin I was renting. This does skin better and lives in my browser.”
“Clients say the portraits feel timeless now. That's the film response doing the work.”
Pricing
Pay for the craft, not the subscription trap
7-day free trial. No credit card required.
CINEON Pro
$12.41/mo billed annually
- Unlimited exports (JPG, PNG, TIFF)
- Full access to all film emulations
- Grain, halation, dirty matte & more
- Multi-image strip processing
- Save & share custom presets
- All future in-browser features
Lifetime
Pay onceYours forever. No renewals.
- Everything in Cineon Pro
- All future in-browser features
- Locked-in early-supporter price
Your portraits deserve skin that looks like film
Built for photographers who care how color actually works on a face. Get in early and grade your next set in Cineon.
7-day trial. No credit card required.
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All effects in Cineon run on the iGPU and GPU via WebGPU — including halation, film grain, exposure, bloom, and color science tools. A modern browser with WebGPU support is required: Chrome 113 or later, or Microsoft Edge 113 or later. Firefox and Safari do not yet support WebGPU and are not supported.
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Cineon runs entirely in your browser — no software to install, no files sent to a server. Your photos stay on your device at all times.
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Minimum setup: 8 GB RAM and a graphics chip with WebGPU support — such as an Intel Iris Xe, AMD Radeon RX 5000 series, NVIDIA GTX 1060, or Apple M1. For comfortable editing of large RAW files and HDR images, 16 GB RAM and a dedicated GPU — such as an NVIDIA RTX 3060, AMD RX 6700 XT, or Apple M2 Pro — are recommended. Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later) run Cineon exceptionally well.
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Every effect in Cineon is processed at the highest internal precision available — the equivalent of a 32-bit professional editing workflow — so there is no quality loss between effects, no matter how many you stack.
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HDR photos are supported natively, including files from iPhone (HEIC), professional cameras (TIFF), and high-end scanning workflows (OpenEXR). Standard JPEG, PNG, and WebP files are fully supported as well.
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Export is available in TIFF 16-bit and TIFF 32-bit — lossless formats accepted by Photoshop, Lightroom, Affinity Photo, and other professional software. JPEG, PNG, and WebP export is also available for sharing and web use.
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Our Film Grain models the actual chemical behavior of silver halide crystals in photographic emulsion — the same underlying science published in peer-reviewed imaging research — rather than applying a simple texture overlay. The result is grain that responds to light, shadow, and color the way real film does.
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Optical Engine simulates the physical behavior of real camera lenses, including how light bends through glass at different wavelengths. The colored fringing, focus falloff, and bokeh shape you see are derived from ray-by-ray calculations — not artistic presets.
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Processing speed depends on your computer, the resolution of your photo, and the number of effects active. A draft preview at reduced resolution is always available while the full-quality result is being calculated in the background.
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Some multi-threaded performance features require a browser context with cross-origin isolation enabled. This is active on cineon.app and has no impact on how you use the app.
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Cineon is designed for desktop use. A screen width of at least 1280px is recommended for the full editing interface. Mobile browsing is supported for account access and light previewing.