Look DNA

The recipe
travels with
the photograph.

It's like a your-look cookbook.
Every image captured in mono+ carries its DNA — a complete specification of the recipe you've baked in… filter, grain, color tone, decay, borders.

How it works

Three ways to
use Look DNA.

IMPORT FROM CAMERA ROLL

Read a look from your own photos

Open PRO on your iPhone, go to SETTINGS, tap Import Look from Photo. Choose any mono+ image from your camera roll. The look is extracted and applied to your current session.

IMPORT FROM GALLERY

Use a look from the community

Browse the mono+ gallery, find a shot you love, tap Get This Look. If the photographer shared their look DNA, it installs instantly. Their creative signature, your shots.

SHARE ANY WAY YOU LIKE

Send a photo, send the look

Every mono+ photo you send already carries the look. AirDrop, Messages, Instagram DM — wherever the image goes, the recipe goes with it. The recipient opens it in mono+ to extract the look.

IMPORT IN THE COMPANION

Drag a photo onto your Mac

Open the mono+ Desktop Companion, drag any mono+ image onto the window. The look is extracted and appears as a new preset in your library — ready to edit, name, and send back to your iPhone.

READ WITH ANY EXIF TOOL

Open standard format

Look DNA is written to the standard EXIF UserComment field as JSON. Any EXIF viewer can read it. The format is open — the data belongs to you and travels freely with your images.

GALLERY AUTO-DETECTION

Submit a shot, share the look automatically

When you submit a photo to the mono+ gallery, the look DNA is read automatically from the file. No need to select which filter you used — the image already knows.

What gets embedded

The complete
creative specification.

Every parameter you can set in the mono+ PRO panel is encoded in the Look DNA. Nothing is omitted.

Filter
Film simulation ID, display name, and intensity setting
Tone
Shadows, midtones, highlights, and clarity values
Texture
Grain strength and vignette amount
Color
Shadow and highlight tone hue, strength, and print tone preset
Decay
Light leak, halation, burn, dust, scratch, gate weave, bleed, fade
Tilt-Shift
Enabled state, center position, width, and blur strength
Frame
Aspect ratio and border selection
App signature
mono+ identifier and format version for future compatibility

Your photo.
Your look.

Available now on the App Store.

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