Build the base grade with Exposure, Contrast, Saturation, Temperature, Tint, Vibrance, Gamma, Hue, Shadows and Highlights. New Colorize adds palettes and custom gradients; Curves supplies five-point Master/RGB tone controls; 3-Way Color adjusts shadows, midtones and highlights separately.
GRADE SHIFT STANDARD · 40 NATIVE EFFECTSYour timeline.
Your timeline.
Your signature.
Color. Light. Motion. Finish. Build your look with forty separate native effects. Apply only what you need, reorder your stack and animate each effect’s controls inside After Effects.
$35 USD · Windows x64 · 40 separate .aex plugins · Two installation packages
GRADE SHIFT STANDARD
40 NATIVE EFFECTS / YOUR OWN STACKCOLORExposure · Contrast · Saturation
MOTIONShake · Sampled Shake Blur · Flicker
LIGHT + FINISHGlow · Blur · SharpenColor Vignette · Mix
Category illustration · Apply each Standard effect independently in After Effects.
Color✦Light✦Motion✦Native Grade Shift
Shape the whole mood.
Explore forty individual effects across eight labeled groups. Each has its own Mix and keyframeable controls.
Shape your signature palette.
Browse Grade Shift Standard Adjust in AE Effects & Presets.
GS Standard ExposureGS Standard ContrastGS Standard SaturationGS Standard TemperatureGS Standard TintGS Standard VibranceGS Standard GammaGS Standard HueGS Standard ShadowsGS Standard HighlightsGS Standard ColorizeGS Standard CurvesGS Standard 3-Way Color
Give the shot its energy.
Browse Grade Shift Standard Motion in AE Effects & Presets.
Control Shake amount and speed, with Standard’s original sampled motion blur duration in seconds.
GS Standard Shake
Make the frame your own.
Browse Grade Shift Standard Stylize in AE Effects & Presets.
Stack Flicker and Film Grain with new RGB Invert, soft-dot Halftone, dithered Posterize, Comic outlines, directional Emboss, tile-averaged Mosaic and Pencil Sketch with shading and paper colors.
GS Standard FlickerGS Standard Film GrainGS Standard InvertGS Standard HalftoneGS Standard PosterizeGS Standard ComicGS Standard EmbossGS Standard MosaicGS Standard Pencil Sketch
Control the detail and trails.
Browse Grade Shift Standard Blur+Sharpen in AE Effects & Presets.
Soften with Blur, refine detail with Sharpen, add directional Motion Blur or zoom/spin Radial Blur. New Unsharp Mask gives you independent amount, radius and threshold sharpening.
GS Standard BlurGS Standard SharpenGS Standard Motion BlurGS Standard Radial BlurGS Standard Unsharp Mask
Guide the light.
Browse Grade Shift Standard Lighting in AE Effects & Presets.
Shape Standard Glow and a colored Vignette, then add new Diffusion with highlight selection and color response.
GS Standard GlowGS Standard VignetteGS Standard Diffusion
Bend the atmosphere.
Browse Grade Shift Standard Distort in AE Effects & Presets.
Build image warps with Distortion or use new Chromatic Shift for radial and channel color offsets with edge handling.
GS Standard DistortionGS Standard Chromatic Shift
Give the edit a film-inspired finish.
Browse Grade Shift Standard Film Style in AE Effects & Presets.
Choose Film Look’s creative grading styles, add procedural dust and scratches with Film Damage, blend animated Light Leaks, or shape colored highlight halos with Film Halation. These are creative treatments, not calibrated film-stock emulations.
GS Standard Film - LookGS Standard Film - DamageGS Standard Film - Light LeaksGS Standard Film - Halation
Build texture into the look.
Browse Grade Shift Standard Textures in AE Effects & Presets.
Generate Noise, Clouds or Grunge with animation, colors and quality selection. Draft, Standard and High trade render speed for additional samples. Evolution Speed 0 freezes animation. Use an opaque solid for full-frame textures; input alpha is preserved.
GS Standard Texture - NoiseGS Standard Texture - CloudsGS Standard Texture - Grunge
Photography sets the mood for each category. These images are not before-and-after plugin renders.
Photo credits
Photography from Unsplash: Fernando Strabuli · sunset / Davide Cantelli · light trails / Amelia Noyes · neon / Steven Lawson · water reflections / David Clode · film camera / Parrish Freeman · architecture / Landscape photography.
MORE CREATIVE CONTROL. ONE SMALL PRICE.A signature look.
01 / PAY ONCE 02 / SHAPE THE FEELING 03 / BUILD YOUR STACK
A signature look.
A smarter spend.
GradeShift brings forty separate color, light, motion and finishing effects together for $35, paid once. If those are the tools your edits need, it’s a focused way to build your look without committing to a recurring plugin subscription or a larger effects bundle.
Your budget goes further.
A plugin subscription adds to your costs month after month. GradeShift’s one-time $35 price keeps the cost clear from the start, leaving more of your budget for the rest of your creative setup.
From tone to final touch.
Dial in exposure, contrast and saturation. Add glow and brightness flicker, introduce procedural shake with sampled shake blur, then finish with blur, sharpening and a color vignette. Blend the result with Mix to keep the look as subtle or bold as your footage needs.
Forty effects. Editable control.
Apply the native effects individually and choose their order in your layer’s stack. Refine each effect with its own keyframeable controls and Mix.
$35 USD · One-time purchase · No GradeShift subscription
Best value when these controls fit your workflow. Larger suites offer different tools and broader capabilities. Check the Windows requirements and compatibility notes below before purchasing; After Effects is purchased separately.
UPDATED NATIVE CONTROLS
Less searching. More creating.
Long effect panels now use collapsible native AE sections, while simple effects stay compact. Shorter labels, consistent units and Mix (%) keep the controls easier to scan. Sample counts and seeds show whole numbers, and motion blur duration shows three decimals.
The original 20 effects retain their rendering, labels, defaults and saved control IDs. The 20 new additions have separate Standard identities. Back up projects before updating: expressions using older labels or numeric parameter indexes may need changes, and existing projects and presets still require testing in your AE version. Control-Reference.csv and Control-Layout.json document the mappings.
YOUR NEXT CREATIVE TOOLKIT
Forty effects. Your whole mood.
Forty native Standard .aex plugins in two separate installation options: a ready-to-run Windows installer ZIP and a manual ZIP. Both deliver the same Standard effect suite.
$35 USD
Buy Grade Shift for $35 →One-time purchase · Both ZIPs included
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FROM DOWNLOAD TO TIMELINE
Find your Standard stack.
AFTER EFFECTS INSTALLER VERSIONS
Windows installation targets
After Effects 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, when their installations are detected under Program Files\Adobe. The installer scans Adobe After Effects folders and lets you select the versions found; custom install paths may require manual installation.
AE 2023 is the plugin build baseline. Installer detection does not certify loading or rendering compatibility: AE 2024–2026 and other hosts require testing. Windows x64 only.
Expand the eight Grade Shift Standard groups in Effects & Presets, or search GS Standard. Drag effects onto a layer individually, then reorder them in Effect Controls. Each effect has its own Mix and keyframeable controls.
Requirements: Windows x64, After Effects 2023 build baseline and the Microsoft Visual C++ x64 runtime. CPU 8-bit and 16-bit rendering. No macOS, ARM64, GPU or 32-bit float build is supplied. Installation and rendering have not been independently verified in AE; later hosts require testing.
The suite uses separate files and effect identities. Pro and legacy GradeShift.aex are not modified. Keep the legacy plugin for old combined-effect projects: layers are not converted automatically, and stacking order or clipping can change the result.
Manual ZIP
- Close AE and extract GradeShift_Standard_Manual.zip.
- Copy all forty GradeShift_Standard*.aex files into your AE version’s Support Files → Plug-ins → GradeShift Standard folder.
- Restart AE, expand Grade Shift Standard or search GS Standard, and apply effects individually.
Windows installer ZIP
Extract GradeShift_Standard_Installer.zip and run GradeShift-Standard-Setup.exe with AE closed. Select the detected AE versions you use. Program Files installation needs administrator permission. Keep GradeShift-Standard-Uninstall.exe for removal. Both ZIPs include installation and effect guides, Controls-Guide.txt, Control-Reference.csv and Control-Layout.json.
To update, close AE and install the new suite. Avoid duplicate copies of the same Standard binaries. To remove manually, delete only the forty Standard suite files. No plugin license key is required for this release; website downloads require a confirmed purchase.
A few things to know.
Why do some included guides mention source build kits?
Some guide text refers to earlier source kits. These supplied downloads contain compiled Windows binaries: the manual ZIP has the .aex effects, and the installer ZIP has setup and uninstall executables. Follow the installation instructions for those supplied files. Loading, rendering and project migration have not been independently verified in After Effects.
What do I get after purchase?
Separate protected installer and manual ZIPs for the forty-effect Standard suite. The installer includes ready-to-run setup and uninstall executables; the manual includes all forty compiled .aex plugins. Both include installation instructions and the Standard guide.
Which effects are included?
40 independently addable effects across Adjust, Motion, Stylize, Blur+Sharpen, Lighting, Distort, Film Style and Textures. The original 20 effects are retained, with 20 additions for gradients, curves, tonal balance, sharpening, diffusion, color offsets, film treatments, textures and stylization. Browse all 40 by category above.
Can I keep Pro and the older combined plugin?
Yes. Standard has a distinct Grade Shift Standard category, files and match names. The installer does not modify Pro or legacy GradeShift.aex. Keep the older combined plugin for existing projects until you recreate their effects manually.
Is the installer ready to run?
Yes. Extract the installer ZIP and run GradeShift-Standard-Setup.exe on Windows with AE closed. You do not need to build setup yourself.
Will my existing layers convert automatically?
No. The original Standard core is retained, but separate effects operate sequentially. Reordering and clipping can produce different results from the older combined pipeline. Back up projects and compare before replacing your old effect stack.
Why do some effects look unchanged at first?
Defaults retain neutral settings. Raise Shake, Blur, Glow, Flicker or Vignette strength to see the effect. Mix 0 bypasses processing; Mix 100 applies the full effect.
What is new in the 40-effect release?
Invert, Halftone, Colorize, Curves, 3-Way Color, Unsharp Mask, Diffusion, Chromatic Shift, four Film Style effects, three procedural textures and five Stylize effects. Original Standard rendering and saved control IDs are retained; new effects use their own Standard identities and do not overwrite Pro.
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