by CROSSPHERE .Koizumi·VFX
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Crossphere Bokeh earns its place in the Toolfarm library for a focused set of bokeh controls—focal distance, focus points, and edge handling—paired with wide After Effects compatibility from CS6 to 2025 and Apple M1 support.
Crossphere Bokeh is an After Effects plugin from CROSSPHERE .Koizumi that produces bokeh effects. It exposes a Focal Distance parameter, whose range was extended to span from -1 to 2, along with Focus Point 0, Focus Point 1, and a Focus Point 0-1 Interpolation control.
The plugin also includes a Composite Mode parameter, a Use Focus Point option, and edge-related controls such as Edge Behavior, Remove Edge Leak, and Detect Edge Threshold, plus a Threshold parameter. These have been added and refined across successive releases.
Crossphere Bokeh runs on a broad span of After Effects versions, from CS6 through 2025, and supports Apple M1 machines. It ranks 67 in the Toolfarm library. A demo video is available, and the developer's page covers current licensing details.
Crossphere Bokeh is best for adding bokeh effects in After Effects with control over focal distance, focus points, and edge handling.
Crossphere Bokeh is completely free to download and use.
Crossphere Bokeh lists compatibility with After Effects 2025, along with 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, and CS6. That covers a broad span of releases from CS6 up to the 2025 version, and its requirements match the same list of After Effects versions. If you run one of these versions, the plugin is documented as compatible. Check the developer's page to confirm details for your specific setup.
Crossphere Bokeh received an update for Apple M1 machines in version 1.3.5 (December 2021), which also brought compatibility with After Effects 2022, and a further M1 fix followed in version 1.3.6 (May 2022). Earlier releases added support for macOS Catalina as well. So the plugin is documented as working on Apple M1 hardware. For the current state of macOS and hardware support, the developer's page is the best reference.
Crossphere Bokeh 1.4.0, released April 20, 2023, extended the range of the Focal Distance parameter from -1 to 2. It also added three parameters: Focus Point 0, Focus Point 1, and Focus Point 0-1 Interpolation. Earlier versions had introduced controls such as Composite Mode, Threshold, Use Focus Point, Remove Edge Leak, and Detect Edge Threshold. The developer's changelog lists the full history of updates for the plugin.
Crossphere Bokeh is listed as free in this catalog. For current licensing terms and any conditions attached to using the plugin, the developer's page is the place to check, since the plugin has gone through several license system updates over its release history. Those licensing changes are noted in the changelog across versions such as 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.5, and 1.3.6.
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