Compositor FX

What is Compositor FX?

Compositor FX is a complete compositor workflow for Blender artists who want fast access to color grading, cinematic effects, film looks, lens effects, detail processing, stylization and practical image adjustments.

Instead of manually rebuilding node setups for every project, you can browse effects, add them to a stack, adjust their parameters, reorder them, enable or bypass individual effects, and save the complete result as a reusable Look.

15 Image Adjustments

The dedicated Adjust stage provides 15 practical controls for quickly refining the final image. These controls are separate from the 68 filters in the browser.

68 Filter Library

Compositor FX includes 68 effects organized into seven filter families. Each browser filter includes its own Strength control, while many effects also expose additional parameters.

01 — Color · 21 Filters

• Warm — Warm yellow-orange bias. Warmth
• Cool — Cool blue color bias. Coolness
• Teal & Orange — Teal shadows and orange highlights. Split, Saturation
• Sepia — Warm brown monochrome print. Tone, Contrast
• Black & White — Grayscale with tonal control. Contrast, Brightness
• Film Noir — Dark monochrome and crushed shadows. Shadow Crush, Contrast
• Muted — Subdued, lower-saturation color. Saturation
• Vibrance — Boost subdued color more than vivid tones. Amount
• Color Pop — Punchy saturation and contrast. Saturation, Contrast
• Cross Process — Stylized cool shadows and warm highlights. Amount
• Bleach Bypass — Silvery contrast with restrained color. Saturation
• Faded Matte — Lifted dark tones and soft color. Fade, Saturation
• Cyberpunk — Saturated magenta/cyan night grade. Amount, Saturation
• Golden Hour — Warm low-sun color with highlight glow. Amount, Glow
• Moonlight — Dark, cool, desaturated day-for-night. Darkness, Blue
• Gradient Map — Map brightness to three custom colors. Shadows, Midtones, Highlights
• Color Tint — Single-color soft-light wash. Color
• Split Toning — Color shadows and highlights separately. Shadow Color, Highlight Color, Amount
• Hue Shift — Rotate hue and tune saturation. Shift, Saturation
• Soft Portrait Film — Warm, gentle portrait treatment. Amount
• Vivid Slide Film — Saturated color for landscape imagery. Amount

02 — Cinematic · 8 Filters

• Cinematic Dark — Cool grade with deeper contrast. Contrast, Saturation
• Hollywood — Bright polished color with a gentle glow. Glow, Saturation
• Blockbuster — Teal/orange split, contrast and bloom. Split, Bloom, Contrast
• Letterbox Bars — Black bars for a chosen wide aspect ratio. Aspect Ratio
• Anamorphic Streaks — Tinted horizontal streaks from highlights. Strength, Threshold, Length, Tint
• Dreamy Glow — Soft haze and diffusion. Glow, Threshold
• Neon Glow — Saturated bloom around bright lights. Strength, Threshold, Saturation
• Filmic Punch — Rich midtones and S-curve-like contrast. Contrast, Richness

03 — Film · 7 Filters

• Film Grain — Generated analog-style grain with no texture file. Amount, Grain Size
• Vintage Film — Fade, warmth, reduced color and grain. Fade, Warmth, Grain
• Old Photograph — Sepia print with vignette and grain. Vignette, Grain, Tone
• Halation — Red-orange glow bleeding around highlights. Strength, Threshold, Radius
• Tungsten Night — Teal shadows and warm highlight halation. Amount, Halation
• Light Leak — Soft colored light placed in the frame. Position X/Y, Size, Color
• VHS Tape — Channel bleed, softness and grain. Color Bleed, Noise, Softness

04 — Lens · 10 Filters

• Vignette — Darken the edges and guide focus inward. Size, Feather, Roundness
• Bloom — Soft glow from bright highlights. Strength, Threshold, Size
• Soft Focus — Diffuse the image for a soft finish. Radius
• Chromatic Aberration — Color fringing from lens dispersion. Amount
• Lens Distortion — Barrel or pincushion image warp. Amount
• Tilt-Shift — Sharp horizontal band with blur above and below. Blur, Focus Height, Position, Feather
• Fog Glow — Wide atmospheric highlight glow. Strength, Threshold, Size
• Star Glare — Cross-shaped streaks on bright lights. Strength, Threshold, Rays, Length, Rotation
• Atmospheric Haze — Blend in a light haze color. Amount, Color
• Lens Ghosts — Internal-reflection-style flare. Strength, Threshold

05 — Detail · 7 Filters

• Unsharp Mask — Radius-controlled image sharpening. Amount, Radius
• Clarity — Mid-size local contrast and texture. Amount, Radius
• Denoise — Blender's built-in compositor denoising node. No exposed parameters
• Smooth Skin — Edge-preserving bilateral smoothing. Size, Edge Protect
• Despeckle — Reduce isolated bright/dark speckles. Threshold, Neighbor
• HDR Tone — Compress dynamic range and tune adaptation. Key, Contrast, Adaptation
• Soften — Light Gaussian softening. Radius

06 — Stylize · 10 Filters

• Posterize — Reduce the number of tonal steps. Steps
• Pixelate — Build a chunky pixel look. Pixel Size
• Oil Paint — Kuwahara-based painterly surface. Brush Size, Sharpness
• Pencil Sketch — Dark edge drawing on a light field. Line Strength, Detail
• Emboss — Create a raised-relief treatment. No exposed parameters
• Invert — Photographic negative. No exposed parameters
• Threshold — Convert brightness to black or white. Level
• RGB Split Glitch — Offset red and blue channels. Shift, Direction
• Cartoon — Flatten color, posterize and add outlines. Color Levels, Outline, Smoothing
• Duotone Poster — Map brightness to two selected colors. Dark, Light

07 — Utility · 5 Filters

• Exposure — Adjust photographic exposure in stops. Stops
• Gamma — Adjust midtone brightness. Gamma
• RGB Curves — Edit tonal response in Blender's curve editor. Curve Mapping
• Flip / Mirror — Flip horizontally and/or vertically. Flip X, Flip Y
• Zoom / Rotate — Scale, rotate and offset the image. Zoom, Rotation, Offset X/Y

Workflow

Custom Filters

Create your own reusable filters from selected compositor nodes. Exposed node inputs can be adjusted directly from the panel, allowing you to turn your personal node setups into reusable tools.

Custom filters can also be shared as JSON, making it easier to move your custom setups between projects or share them with other artists.

Looks & Presets

Save a complete effect stack as a Look, including effect order, enabled states, Strength values and parameters. Looks can be exported and imported as JSON for reuse.