What It Does
ColorX is a GPU-accelerated color grading plugin for Premiere Pro and After Effects that lets you target specific colors and adjust their hue, saturation, lightness, and density simultaneously. Rather than making broad image-wide corrections, it lets you isolate a color range and push it precisely, which is useful for looks like desaturated skies, punchy reds in skin tones, or teal-and-orange grades without affecting the full image.
Key Features
Hue Mode. Adjusts hue, saturation, lightness, and density individually across six fixed color ranges: red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow. Good starting point for most grading tasks.
Hue Custom Mode. Lets you pick three custom colors using a color picker and define their individual hue ranges. Useful when the standard six ranges don’t isolate exactly what you need.
Saturation Mode. Targets adjustments based on the saturation level of pixels in the original image, making it straightforward to balance over- or under-saturated regions without touching areas that are already correct.
Lightness Mode. Adjusts color parameters within defined lightness ranges. This makes it possible to lift shadows and pull down highlights independently without clipping or losing detail in either end.
Advanced Mode. Combines custom hue, saturation, and luminance range selection with mask refinement and inversion. The most flexible mode for complex or layered grading work.
Subtractive saturation control. Increases saturation without brightening pixels at the same time, which helps the result look natural rather than oversaturated and glowy.
Density adjustment. Adds a filmic quality by controlling density across the whole image or within a specific color range.
The plugin is GPU-accelerated on both Mac and Windows, and compatible with Premiere Pro and After Effects versions 2021 through 2026.
Who It’s For
ColorX suits editors and colorists who want more precise per-color control than Premiere’s built-in Lumetri Color provides, without moving to a dedicated grading application. It’s particularly practical for narrative and commercial work where specific color targets, like matching skin tones across cuts or isolating a product’s brand color, matter. It also works for After Effects compositing where color consistency between elements needs fine-tuning.
Pricing
ColorX is a one-time purchase at $69.99 for a single-user license. Floating server and render-only license options are also available. A free trial can be downloaded from the aescripts product page. Upgrade pricing is available for eligible previous buyers at a reduced rate.