Finial overview

Finish a render with a recipe of blocks: tone it down, add people and haze, and export it. The render never leaves your computer.

Alpha tool. It's early and still changing: expect things to break, and keep your own copy of anything you can't lose. What alpha means

Finial takes a render that's almost right and finishes it: calmer color, people at eye level, a little haze, a vignette. You build the look as a recipe: a chain of blocks the render runs through, left to right. The same recipe works on every view in a set, so they all match.

Finial runs on your computer. The render never leaves it, and nothing is uploaded.

The main screen #

The toolbar: Open render…, Use the sample (once you've opened your own render), the Recipe menu, and Export JPEG / Export PNG on the right.
The picture: the result of the selected block, or of Final when nothing is selected. The line under it says which block you're looking at and the size it exports at. Hold Hold to compare to see the untouched render.
The side panel: the selected block's settings. With no block selected, it shows the Recipe name. Under that, the buttons to add blocks, grouped as Look, Adjust, Entourage and Combine.
The recipe graph along the bottom: every block with a small preview of what it outputs, wired left to right. See The recipe graph.

Open a render #

Click Open render… and pick a PNG or JPEG (WebP works too), or drag the image onto the picture. Very large images are scaled down to a size the browser can work with.

Finial keeps your last render in this browser, so reloading the page brings it back. It opens on a sample render until you open your own.

Start a new recipe #

Finial isn't on a project page's + New menu: recipes aren't saved in projects yet.

To start one, open Recipe. Under Start from:

Finish a render: tone down the CG look, add people, a little haze and a vignette.
Pen & ink over the render: ink lines multiplied over a calmer color render.
Quiet black & white: warm monochrome with grain, for a competition board.
Just the render: the render straight to Final. Add your own blocks.

Starting from one replaces the current recipe. The render you have open stays.

Open existing work #

Your recipe is saved in this browser as you work, so it's there next time you open Finial on this computer.

To keep a recipe or move it to another computer, open Recipe and click Download this recipe (.finial.json). To use it again, open Recipe and click Open a recipe file…. See Export.

Who can see it #

Only you, on this computer. The render and the recipe stay in this browser. A recipe file you download is yours to keep or send.

If you're signed out, Finial runs as a demo on the sample render: you can build a recipe, but you can't open your own renders or export.