Crates Chromatic Aberration - Free After Effects Plugin

Fast and Beautiful

Crates Chromatic Aberration is a Free plugin for Adobe After Effects, generating stunning chromatic aberration effects over your footage. Use this to simulate the optical distortions seen in real-world lenses, enhancing the realism of your VFX.

Using the GPU for realtime speeds, this one-click chromatic aberration plugin is a perfect addition to any editor's toolkit.

Motion Graphics

Crates Chromatic Aberration is perfect for stylizing your motion graphics. Drop it onto your text, shapes and logos to instantly add the classic vibrant distortion used in many motion graphic projects.

Creative parameters such Radial, Scale, Centre and Steps can be combined to produce unique colorful distortions that make your projects stand out.

Ready for Action

Crates Chromatic Aberration can be used to create unique visual effects. You can watch our tutorial here to see how we created a mind-bending mental warping scene in Adobe After Effects.

WATCH TUTORIAL

How to make a Chromatic Aberration in After Effects or Premiere Pro

Aberration Strength

Once you apply Crates Chromatic Aberration, use the Aberration slider to control how intense the image should be distorted.

Radial

Used to distort the image by rotating it, useful for creating twisted trippy effects!

Centre

Manually reposition the centre of the distorted chromatic aberration. This can be used to keep a certain area clean and sharp.

Scale

An alternative distortion method that scales the image instead of distorting it. Can be used to create a 3D effect!

Steps

Controls the quality of your aberration. Increase this if you notice any banding artefacts in stronger aberrations. You can also choose to reduce this value for a retro effect!

FREE PLUGIN

CHROMATIC ABERRATION

Included in the LaForge Suite