Halation is a professional DCTL tool from Qazi's Toolkit for DaVinci Resolve Studio, designed to recreate the characteristic glowing highlights of analog film. It generates soft halos around bright areas of the image, helping digital footage achieve a warmer, more atmospheric, and film-inspired appearance.

Rather than applying a simple generic glow, Halation provides dedicated controls for shaping the intensity, color, diffusion, and behavior of the effect. Film-based presets help reproduce different halation characteristics, while color space controls allow the tool to operate correctly within professional color-managed workflows.

FEATURES

• Film-inspired halation simulation
• Creates natural halos around bright areas and highlights
• Intensity control for adjusting halation brightness
• Hue and Saturation controls for shaping halation color
• Blur Width control for adjusting diffusion and spread
• Presets based on characteristics of real film negatives
• Blend control for managing the effect
• Color Space Primaries selection
• Transfer Function selection
• Designed to work correctly in linear processing
• Returns the image in the same selected color space
• Node-based DCTL workflow inside DaVinci Resolve
• Suitable for film emulation, cinematic grading, commercials, music videos, narrative films, and creative color grading

CONTROLS

• Intensity
• Hue
• Saturation
• Blur Width
• Film-based Preset
• Blend
• Color Space Primaries
• Transfer Function

SPECIFICATIONS

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

COMPATIBILITY

DaVinci Resolve Studio, macOS, Windows