CA Grade — Nuke-Style Color Grading for Materials in Blender

Stop chaining five separate nodes every time you need a proper grade. CA Grade brings Nuke's Grade node workflow into Blender as a single, clean panel: blackpoint, whitepoint, lift, gain, multiply, offset, and gamma, all in one place, per-channel or combined.

Features

Works in the Shader Editor

Blender already has color grading tools in Compositor mode, but it doesn't have a good one in the Shader Editor.

• All grade controls in one node — no more chaining Color Balance, Bright/Contrast, and Curves just for a basic lift-gamma-gain pass
• Per-channel control — switch between R, G, B, and A independently, exactly like Nuke's Grade node
• Full Nuke parity — blackpoint, whitepoint, lift, gain, multiply, offset, gamma: same names, same order, same math
• Black & white clamp toggles — built in, one click each
• Non-destructive mix slider — blend the grade against the original input
• Alpha and Factor outputs — plugs cleanly into any node tree
• Shader Editor — grade textures and materials in your shader graph
• Delivered as a .py file — append the node group and go, no dependencies

Who It's For

• Artists dialing in texture looks and material response with a familiar grading interface
• VFX artists working across Nuke and Blender who want one consistent mental model
• Anyone tired of Blender's fragmented default grading workflow for object materials / textures
• Node-group builders who want a single, readable grade node to reuse

Requirements

• Blender 5.0 or later
• Works in the Shader Editor and Compositor
• No external Python dependencies
• Delivered as a .py or .zip file, easy install