Dia² Lite is a Preset Mixer designed to assemble great‑looking, reliable, yet distinctly personal looks in your favorite grading software.
Fast, easy and intuitive, this OFX plugin is powered by HAL’s proven algorithms and built on HAL’s built-in Presets, with enough modularity to shape your intent, export LUTs, and stay in a simplified, direct-to-display color-management pipeline.
Mix and match module presets to expand what’s possible.
A ready to use solution combining color transformations and textures.
A rich selection of varied presets to support your project.
The color science and analysis behind your Presets come from HAL Picture’s Pro plugins. Each look and film emulation is refined, repeatable, and production‑proven by Diachromie and Diaphanie users across the movie industry.
A look is defined by nine core transformations—four color modules and five texture modules. Because each module can load its own preset independently, you can easily create hybrid looks by mixing and matching built‑in Preset signatures.
Each module provides straightforward yet high‑impact controls, from classic blends to the 3D cube’s core transformations. Every Preset’s aesthetic can be dialed in to match a project.
HAL Picture aims to bring the performance of Diachromie and Diaphanie to a wider audience. Simplifying color management is a key request from users who want professional‑grade results without getting lost in overly open‑ended workflows. DiaMono Lite is built to deliver great results while remaining fun to explore.
Discover the HAL tool range and choose the one that best fits your needs.
Simplified Color Management
Easily setup a direct-to-display workflow. HDR and SDR supported.
Conform Settings
Scale your textural effects relative to your timeline resolution. Apply a region of interest to avoid processing parts of the image (letterboxing, pillarboxing, custom ratios…).
Rich Monitoring Tools
You can monitor the effects of your actions on RGB curves, color charts and color volumes, giving you a deeper understanding of the work you’re doing.
Look Presets
Your work starts from one of more than 20 built-in looks crafted by our team. Mix them over the modules, customize them, and make them your own!
Color Transformations
Choose a preset for your Contrast Curve, your Color Tone Curves to tint your image, and your Vertex Transformations to shape the color palette of your look.
Every preset can be blended and fine-tuned thanks to a curated selection of parameters.
Texture Transformations
Load beautiful presets to shape the definition of your image with the Spatial Equalizer.
Emulate vintage lens effects with the Definition Vignetting, filmic (or modern) Halation, and diffusion filters with the Diffusion module.
Blend in our procedural, fully generated Grain.
LUT Export
The color transformations of your look can be exported as a log-to-log .cube LUT file. Perfect to create a monitoring LUT for your camera.
Compare our plugins
| Pro | Indie | |||
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Diachromie
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Diaphanie
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Dia²
new!
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Dia² Lite
new!
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| Look Components | Color | Texture | Color & Texture | Color & Texture |
| Creative Modularity | Unlimited | Unlimited | Expanded | Basic |
| Interoperability | Preset Exchange | |||
| Color Management |
Full color management + direct-to-display (SDR + HDR) |
Full color management |
Full color management + direct-to-display (SDR + HDR) |
Direct-to-display (SDR + HDR) |
| Presets | built-in + personal + external | built-in + personal + external | built-in + personal + external | built-in |
| Export Display LUT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Seats per license | 2+ | 2+ | 2 | 1 |
- ▸ Billed quarterly
- ▸ Provided with 1 seat
- ▸ Same license for every host
- ▸ Billed yearly
- ▸ Provided with 1 seat
- ▸ Same license for every host
- ▸ Billed once
- ▸ Provided with 1 seat
- ▸ Same license for every host
Compatible with
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Resolve
- windows
- macOS
- Linux
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Baselight
- macOS
- Linux
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Livegrade (frontier edition)
- macOS