Tools for people who care about the image.
Nx Color is an independent creative software company developing tools for color, image processing and visual effects.
Where it started
It began with a fascination for the way images are formed: the character of film, the behavior of light, the imperfections that make an image feel alive, and the mathematics hidden beneath all of it.
That fascination became software. Today, Nx Color develops native tools for DaVinci Resolve, Adobe and Final Cut Pro, alongside the DCTL tools that started the journey.
The goal has remained the same: to make sophisticated image-making techniques accessible without getting in the way of the person using them.
A different approach
We are interested in what happens beneath the interface.
- Color science
- Film processes
- Signal processing
- Computer vision
- Computational photography
- Rendering
These disciplines offer ideas that can change the way an image behaves, not simply the way it looks.
Nx Color brings those ideas into tools designed for real creative work: precise when they need to be, intuitive when they can be, and deliberately free of unnecessary complexity.
We don’t believe every problem needs another slider. Sometimes it needs a better algorithm.
What we make
Two product lines, one standard. Every tool is built the same way: the mechanism first, then made fast enough to grade with.
Pro plugins
Each plugin is built on a single image-processing core, accelerated on Metal, CUDA and OpenCL with a CPU fallback, and runs natively in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro and Motion. One perpetual license covers every host.
DaVinci Resolve
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Final Cut Pro
DCTL plugins
Where Nx Color began: a library of color, texture and stylization tools written for DaVinci Resolve’s DCTL system. Small, fast and focused, each one does one thing well.
- DaVinci Resolve
Independent
Nx Color is independently developed.
Being independent allows us to work on ideas that might not fit a conventional product roadmap, to spend time on the difficult details, and to build technology around the image rather than around a category.
The products are developed closely with the people who use them. Their feedback, criticism and curiosity are an important part of the process.
Naveen Chandran
Founder and developer
Color science, rendering and host integration: everything from the image-processing core to the installer on your machine. Every support request is read and answered by the person who wrote the software.
Where we’re going
The original Nx Color tools were built for a single host. The next generation is being built for a much larger creative ecosystem.
Native plugins. New approaches to color and image processing. Computer vision. Relighting. Tools that explore the boundary between traditional post-production and modern computational imaging.
Some of these ideas are practical. Some are experimental. All of them start with the same question:
Can we make the image do something it couldn’t do before?