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Pro templateFood & RecipeLifestyle

Food Fresh

Lifestyle category, on a 1:1 square canvas, with Quicksand Bold labels reading Prep and Plated, over a gradient ground. Drag the handle to see it work.

The same burger plated with fries and a dip on a dark restaurant tableA burger on a plate on a cluttered kitchen counter mid-servicePrepPlated
Food Fresh rendered in the browser from the build's own frame, rule and label face. The a plated dish shown are the sample pair shipped with the app, standing in for the two photographs you would supply. Exports are composited at 1080p.
The job it is forFood & Recipe pack

What Food Fresh is for

Two greens, square, rounded, with the Prep and Plated wording built in. Green is the natural frame for anything that grows: salads, herbs, a vegetable box, a fermentation jar, a plate that is mostly leaves. It also separates cleanly from every warm food colour, which makes it the more versatile of the two square food frames despite looking like the more specific one.

The ground is a gradient of 2 stops, running #2D6A4F into #40916C behind the pair rather than over it. 2 points of #FFFFFF hold the two photographs apart, with Quicksand Bold labels bottom centre. It ships with Prep and Plated already typed, on a 1:1 square canvas, rounded by 12 points.

The specificationExtracted, not typed

Every value in Food Fresh, as the build holds it

On a template built for a long gap, two values earn a second look before any of the others: whether the date stamp is switched on, and what the labels already say. Both sit in the panel beside the diagram. The diagram is the frame at the size the app composes it, showing the outline, the rule, the label corner and any reserved band.

The recordPro
  • Canvas1:1
  • Rule2 pt
  • LabelsBottom centre
  • BandNone
Canvas
1:1 square
Label face
Quicksand Bold
Label corner
Bottom centre
Rule
2 pt
Corners
12 pt radius
Ground
2 stop gradient
Branding
Overlaid, no band
Date stamp
Off by default
Default wording
Prep and Plated
Pack
Food & Recipe
  • Frame#2D6A4F
  • Ground stop 1#2D6A4F
  • Ground stop 2#40916C
  • Rule#FFFFFF
  • Label#FFFFFF

Read out of the shipped app build by the catalogue extractor, not typed.

Shooting for itLifestyle category

How to shoot a pair for Food Fresh

A long-gap pair has one enemy and it is drift. Everything moves over six weeks: the light, the room, the phone, the haircut, the clothes. The pair that convinces is the one where nothing changed except the thing being claimed, so the setup has to be repeatable by somebody who has forgotten how they did it. Same wall, same time of day, same distance, feet in the same place. Write down where you stood. In three months you will not remember, and the shot you cannot repeat is worth nothing.

In orderWritten for lifestyle work
  1. 01Set the shot up once and write down the setup. Distance, wall, time of day, what you were wearing. The note is the asset.
  2. 02Take the first frame on the first day even if there is nothing to show yet. There is no way to go back for it later.
  3. 03Repeat the shot on a schedule rather than when you feel like it. Ghost Camera makes the repeat exact, and the date stamp records when it happened.
  4. 04Pick the template that matches the register of what you are claiming. A neon frame around a modest change reads as a stretch.
  5. 05Keep the intermediate frames. A pair is one post, and a run of dated frames is a month of them.

Weeks between two photographs is weeks for something to drift. Put the pair through the free slider tool before you build the post, on your own device and in about two seconds, then use the guide to why pairs look staged to work out which part moved.

Honest limitsTwo of them, and both are real

What Food Fresh will not do

This is the category where an honest pair is easiest to make and easiest to fake, and the difference shows. Lighting, posture, a tan, a pump, the time of day, and the same body reads two ways with nothing having changed. Nothing in the app adjusts a body or a face, and nothing in it should be used to imply a result you did not get. On the mechanical side, the labels shipped with these templates are editable text, so Day 1 and 90 Days are starting points rather than measurements the app checks.

On this template in particularThe gradient is part of the template rather than a filter over your photographs, so it cannot be turned off or recoloured. If the ground is fighting your subject, the fix is a different template rather than a setting.

If this one is not itFour questions, four answers

Without upgrading

Opens on the free tier, on a 1:1 square canvas with Inter Bold labels.

Same pack, other end

A lighter ground in the same pack, with a 1 point #8B4513 rule.

Same label face

Also set in Quicksand Bold, so a series can change frame without changing voice.

Nearby in the catalogue

clean category, 1:1 square, Free pack.

Back up to every lifestyle template, or to the whole catalogue. The free browser slider is at the slider tool, and the hashtag research by trade starts at the hashtag index.

Common questions

Who is the Food Fresh template for?
Two greens, square, rounded, with the Prep and Plated wording built in. Green is the natural frame for anything that grows: salads, herbs, a vegetable box, a fermentation jar, a plate that is mostly leaves. It also separates cleanly from every warm food colour, which makes it the more versatile of the two square food frames despite looking like the more specific one.
When should I use something other than Food Fresh?
Green on green flattens a salad. When the dish itself is the green thing on screen, Food Minimal's cream ground gives it somewhere neutral to sit.
Is Food Fresh free?
No, it is one of the Pro templates. The free tier opens 8 of the 100, and everything else in the editor is free with them: all four comparison modes, Ghost Camera, the filters, the stickers, the full label editor, and your own logo and business name.
What shape is Food Fresh, and what will it export at?
The template's canvas is 1:1 square. The export ratio is a separate choice made in the export sheet: 9:16 and 1:1 on the free tier, plus 4:5 and the original ratio on Pro. 1:1 is among them, so the canvas and the export can match exactly.
Can I change the BEFORE and AFTER wording?
Yes. Food Fresh starts with "Prep" and "Plated", and every part of that is editable: the text, the typeface, the colour, the size, bold and italic, uppercase, a shadow, the background opacity, and the position, either one of five presets or dragged anywhere on the canvas.
Can I compare two video clips with this?
No, and for a progress series that is the point. Two dated photographs are the unit of evidence here, not a clip, and the app builds the reveal out of them without ever touching footage.

Put your own pair in Food Fresh

Two photographs, one template, and a reveal that plays in about four seconds. Three exports a day are free, each behind a short rewarded ad.

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