AW_Color - Color Grading Plugin for After Effects

AW_Color brings a dedicated, color grading suite directly inside Adobe After Effects. Capture a frame, dial in your look with zero timeline lag, and bake the entire look stack into a single native effect.

Key Feature

1. Non-Destructive Look Stack

Layer-Based Grading: Stack, reorder, duplicate, hide, or delete individual grading layers just like in Photoshop or dedicated grading suites.

Per-Layer Opacity: Dial in the exact intensity of any individual tool or preset.

All-in-One Native Effect: Entire grade is stored inside one single effect parameter in one layer.

2. Creative Toolset

- Basic Color Correction: Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Temperature, Tint, and Saturation.

- Tone Curves & S-Curves: 4-point tone curves with RGB Master plus independent Red, Green, and Blue channels.

- 3D LUT Support: Load any standard .cube look-up table with smooth trilinear interpolation.

- Way Color (4-Way Wheels): Precise color balance wheels for Shadows, Midtones, Highlights, and Master.

- Crayon Color: Custom measured filmic & stylized color tables (Embo, Sorrow, Tint, Evening, Hunger) with per-hue adjustment and shadow/highlight neutral ramps.

- Diffusion: Highlight bloom that scatters light.

- Spot Exposure: Soft elliptical digital spotlight for directing viewer focus.

- Ramp Exposure: Linear gradient exposure falloff (graduated ND filter style).

- Gradient Ramp: 2-point gradient overlays with blend modes (ideal for MMV, stylized washes, and fake lighting).

- Chromatic Aberration: Subtle or dramatic lens edge fringing.

- Renoiser: Organic film grain with per-channel size and intensity control.

- Edge Blur & Up/Down Blur: Tilt-shift and focus-directing blur effects.

- Sharpen & Vignette: Unsharp mask sharpening and customizable vignettes.

- Duo-Tone & Colorama: Stylized dual-color toning and color remapping.

Requirements

After Effects CC 2023 or Above

Windows / MacOS Support!