The direct download of Flare opens OpenFX plugins — the effects colourists use in DaVinci Resolve — on the selected layer of a photograph. Here are the popular ones, what each is for and where to get it.
Flare’s plugin support was built and checked against these. Each one is made and sold by its own maker; the links go to their sites.
Give a portrait or a travel series the colour of a real film stock. Dehancer offers more than 60 film profiles with grain, halation and bloom. Install the OFX edition sold for DaVinci Resolve; Flare shows its film and camera pickers and the plugin’s own licence messages.
Rebuild the full photochemical chain — negative, print, grain and halation — on a digital photograph. Filmbox Looks is the simpler edition; Filmbox Pro exposes every stage.
Design a look from motion-picture negative and print stocks with subtractive colour, then reuse it across a shoot so every frame matches.
Clean a high-ISO night shot or a scanned frame. Neat Video profiles the noise in a flat area of the picture and removes it while keeping fine detail.
A spectral film simulation with negative, print and scan stages, grain, halation and diffusion, accelerated with Metal. Distributed as source code: build the bundle on your Mac with the included script.
The effects that ship with the Natron compositor: colour correction, hue curves, denoise and sharpen, noise, inpainting, god rays and many more. A good first set to try without buying anything.
Widely used effects that ship in OpenFX format for Mac. Use the maker’s trial to check the effect in Flare before buying a licence.
Film stock emulation matched to your camera, with adjustable grain and film curves. The OFX edition runs on Apple silicon.
A large library of lighting and stylise effects: glows, lens flares, light leaks, film damage and blurs.
Image restoration, film looks, lights, blurs and titling effects in one collection.
.ofx.bundle in /Library/OFX/Plugins (all users) or ~/Library/OFX/Plugins (this user). Complete the maker’s licence setup.Filter ▸ OpenFX Plug-in… shows the full list and a Scan Again button; so does Settings ▸ Plug-ins.The direct download. Mac App Store rules do not allow an app to load third-party plugins, so the Store copy does not have this menu.
No. Install them separately and obtain any licence their maker requires. Flare’s own filters and adjustments work without them.
These plugins are written for video applications, and makers test them there. Compatibility and speed depend on the plugin, its version and your Mac — try the trial on your own photos first, and tell us what you find on Discord.
The direct download is signed by RainbowFactory LTD, notarised by Apple and updates itself.
Dehancer, Filmbox, Look Designer, Neat Video, FilmConvert, Sapphire, Continuum and the other names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners. Rainbow Factory is not affiliated with them.