Color Compressor is a professional DCTL from Qazi's Toolkit for DaVinci Resolve Studio, designed to bring competing colors into a more cohesive and controlled palette. By compressing surrounding hues and saturation toward a selected target color, the tool makes it possible to create unified cinematic color schemes while preserving smooth, clean image transitions.

Instead of isolating colors with traditional qualifiers, Color Compressor provides dedicated controls for defining a target hue and saturation, then independently controlling how nearby and distant colors move toward that target. This makes it especially useful for building monochromatic looks, complementary palettes, split-toning styles, and stylized cinematic grades.

FEATURES

• Professional color compression for cinematic grading
• Bring competing colors into a cohesive palette
• Target Hue and Saturation controls
• Separate compression controls for nearby and distant colors
• Compress colors toward the target without overshooting
• Nearby Color Cutoff control
• Blend control for adjusting overall effect strength
• Highlight Selected Color visualization
• Selected Color Swatch preview
• Exposure-invariant color selection
• Bypass control
• Suitable for monochromatic and complementary color palettes
• Useful for cinematic split toning and stylized color schemes
• Designed to remain smooth when pushed aggressively
• Color-space-aware processing

CONTROLS

• Target Hue
• Target Saturation
• Compress Near
• Compress Far
• Nearby Color Cutoff
• Blend
• Highlight Selected Color
• Show Selected Color Swatch
• Bypass

COLOR MANAGEMENT

• Color Space Primaries selection
• Transfer Function selection
• Returns the image in the same selected color space

SPECIFICATIONS

• Tool Type: DCTL
• Workflow: DaVinci Resolve Color Page
• CPU: Intel Core i5, AMD Ryzen 7, Apple M1 / M2 or better
• RAM: 16 GB
• GPU: 4 GB VRAM
• DaVinci Resolve Studio required

COMPATIBILITY

DaVinci Resolve Studio, macOS, Windows