BeforeAfterPro templateFood & RecipeLifestyle
Food Minimal
Lifestyle category, on a 1:1 square canvas, with Playfair Display Bold labels reading Prep and Plated on a flat frame. Drag the handle to see it work.
PrepPlatedThe job it is forFood & Recipe pack
What Food Minimal is for
Cream ground, a single point brown hairline, serif labels in a deep brown, square, no gradient. It is the cookbook frame. Nothing in it competes with the food, which is what makes it right for a recipe post where the reader is meant to be reading the caption as much as looking at the picture. Cream is warmer than white and kinder to most plating.
There is no gradient here. The frame is #FFF8F0 and stays that colour across the whole canvas. Labels are set in Playfair Display Bold, bottom centre, over a 1 point #8B4513 divider. It ships with Prep and Plated already typed, on a 1:1 square canvas, rounded by 8 points.
The specificationExtracted, not typed
Every value in Food Minimal, 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.
- Canvas1:1
- Rule1 pt
- LabelsBottom centre
- BandNone
- Canvas
- 1:1 square
- Label face
- Playfair Display Bold
- Label corner
- Bottom centre
- Rule
- 1 pt
- Corners
- 8 pt radius
- Ground
- Flat
- Branding
- Overlaid, no band
- Date stamp
- Off by default
- Default wording
- Prep and Plated
- Pack
- Food & Recipe
- Frame#FFF8F0
- Rule#8B4513
- Label#5C3317
Read out of the shipped app build by the catalogue extractor, not typed.
Shooting for itLifestyle category
How to shoot a pair for Food Minimal
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
- 01Set the shot up once and write down the setup. Distance, wall, time of day, what you were wearing. The note is the asset.
- 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.
- 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.
- 04Pick the template that matches the register of what you are claiming. A neon frame around a modest change reads as a stretch.
- 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 Minimal 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 particularA one point rule is the thinnest divider in the catalogue. Against a busy pair it can stop reading as a divider and start reading as a seam, which is worth checking at the size the post will actually be watched rather than on a preview.
If this one is not itFour questions, four answers
Without upgrading
BeforeAfterOpens on the free tier, on a 1:1 square canvas with Inter Bold labels.
Same pack, other end
PrepPlatedA darker ground in the same pack, with a 3 point #FF8C00 rule.
Same label face
RawEditedAlso set in Playfair Display Bold, so a series can change frame without changing voice.
Nearby in the catalogue
BeforeAfterclean category, 1:1 square, Free pack.
After the frame, the pair and the captionFor food & recipe work
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 Minimal template for?
- Cream ground, a single point brown hairline, serif labels in a deep brown, square, no gradient. It is the cookbook frame. Nothing in it competes with the food, which is what makes it right for a recipe post where the reader is meant to be reading the caption as much as looking at the picture. Cream is warmer than white and kinder to most plating.
- When should I use something other than Food Minimal?
- Pale food on a cream ground goes soft at the edges. Bread, pastry, a cream sauce or a plated risotto all need a boundary, and Food Warm or Food Dark provide one.
- Is Food Minimal 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 Minimal, 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 Minimal 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 Minimal
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.
Get the app freeiPhone, iOS 17 and later