by Orange Turbine·Color Grading
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Render Raw earns its place in the Superhive library by taking the Raw view transform — normally a maze of compositor nodes — and wrapping it in slider controls inside Blender. Orange Turbine also lists documentation, support, and product updates alongside it.
Render Raw, from Orange Turbine, is a color grading add-on for Blender that centers on the Raw view transform — the mode that lets you manage color yourself in Blender's compositor and make adjustments before as well as after the transform. Render Raw handles that entire setup and surfaces the controls as Lightroom-style sliders in the Properties Editor or the 3D Viewport. It's updated to fully support ACES, custom OCIO configs, HDR displays, and wide gamut working spaces.
The Values panel covers Exposure, Gamma, and Contrast alongside White, Highlight, Shadow, and Black levels, with Sharpening, Texture, and Clarity for detail and a Curves panel mapped to the 0-1 range. The Colors panel adds Temperature, Tint, Color Boost, and Saturation, per-hue adjustments, and coloring for Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows using any blend mode.
Camera-style effects include Lens Distortion, Dispersion, Vignetting, Glare, and Film Grain, where the Accurate method displaces the image to fit the grain and the custom bloom supports transparency so the viewport matches the render. A preset system lets you add, remove, share, and apply any of these settings across files.
Render Raw - Color Grading & Effects is best for blender artists who want to grade renders and add camera-style effects inside Blender using slider-based controls rather than building compositor node chains.
Render Raw - Color Grading & Effects is completely free to download and use.
Render Raw is updated to fully support ACES, custom OCIO configs, HDR displays, and wide gamut working spaces. It works by setting Blender's view transform to Raw, which lets you manage color in the compositor and make adjustments both before and after the transform. Render Raw handles that entire setup for you, so you can apply its color and effects controls without building the node chains yourself. For specifics on configuring these workflows, check the developer's page and documentation from Orange Turbine.
Render Raw exposes its adjustments as Lightroom-style sliders inside Blender's Properties Editor or the 3D Viewport. From there you reach the Values panel for Exposure, Gamma, Contrast, White, Highlight, Shadow, and Black levels, plus Sharpening, Texture, and Clarity. The Colors panel covers Temperature, Tint, Color Boost, Saturation, per-hue adjustments, and coloring of Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows with any blend mode. A Curves panel is also included, mapped to the 0-1 range rather than Blender's default AgX curves.
Render Raw includes a preset system that lets you add, remove, share, or apply any of its settings across files. That covers the Values, Colors, and Effects adjustments, so a look you build in one project can be reused in another or passed to someone else. For details on how the preset system is managed, see the documentation from Orange Turbine on the developer's page.
Render Raw is listed as free here in the catalog. Licensing terms can change over time, so check the developer's page from Orange Turbine for the current details before you download or use it. Alongside the plugin, Orange Turbine lists documentation, ongoing support, and product updates, which are worth reviewing when you install and configure it. A demo video is also available if you want a look before committing.
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