Picture Instruments Warping Wheel adds color‑warp wheels to After Effects and Premiere Pro, letting you bend colors in shadows, mids and highlights while protecting skin tones without needing masks.
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Developed by Picture Instruments (FxFactory).
About Picture Instruments Warping Wheel
Picture Instruments Warping Wheel provides a set of three color wheels for shadows, mids and highlights, plus a Master Wheel that tints, saturates, desaturates or adjusts overall brightness. Each wheel includes range, smoothness and brightness controls, and the plugin employs Color Warp technology to reduce compression artefacts such as banding. Advanced skin‑tone controls let you protect skin tones from wheel tints, boost or desaturate skin independently, and adjust skin hue. The plugin runs inside After Effects (2020 through CS6) and Premiere Pro (2020 through CS6) and also supports Final Cut Pro X v10.4+, but it requires Noise Industries FxFactory to be installed.
Features
- Color Warp technology bends colors smoothly within the color space, greatly reducing compression artefacts such as block formation and banding
- Protect Skin Tones control shields skin tones from the tint of the Warping Wheels
- Boost control saturates or desaturates skin tones independently of the color wheels, with a Skin Tone Hue control to adjust skin color
- Separate wheels for shadows, mids and highlights, with range controls to set whether a tint affects the darker, mid or brighter part of each range
- Smoothness control on each wheel sets the width of the shadows, mids and highlights range (lift, gamma, gain)
- Master Wheel to tint, saturate, desaturate or change the brightness of the entire image, plus a brightness control for each of the three ranges
Best for
Color grading in After Effects or Premiere Pro where skin‑tone preservation and smoother handling of heavily compressed footage are needed.
Frequently asked questions
Does Picture Instruments Warping Wheel need FxFactory to run?
Yes. Warping Wheel depends on Noise Industries FxFactory, which must be installed before the plugin’s controls become available.
What After Effects and Premiere Pro versions does Warping Wheel support?
Warping Wheel works with After Effects 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC and CS6, and with Premiere Pro versions covering the same range. It also supports Final Cut Pro X v10.4 and later.
How do the skin tone controls in Warping Wheel work?
The Protect Skin Tones control prevents skin colors from being tinted, the Boost control lets you increase or decrease skin saturation independently of the wheels, and the Skin Tone Hue control adjusts the hue of skin tones.
Is Picture Instruments Warping Wheel free?
The catalog lists the plugin as free, but it runs on FxFactory, which offers both a free version and a paid FxFactory Pro version. Licensing may change, so check the developer’s FxFactory page for current terms.
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