Introduction

What is Beautify?

Beautify 3 is a high-performance post-processing image enhancement asset for Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP). It combines multiple visual effects into optimized render passes, delivering professional-quality results with minimal GPU overhead.

Unlike Unity's built-in post-processing stack, Beautify merges several operations into single passes — meaning you can stack sharpen, bloom, depth of field, color grading and more without the performance cost of running them separately.

Key Features

Image Enhancement

• Sharpen — intelligent local-contrast sharpening that enhances detail without haloing artifacts.
• Dithering — removes color banding in gradients (skyboxes, fog, smooth surfaces).
• Color Tweaks — saturation, brightness, contrast, daltonize, tint, and white balance controls.
• Edge Anti-aliasing — per-pixel edge smoothing that works on top of MSAA or FXAA.

Tonemapping & Color Grading

• ACES & AGX Tonemapping — filmic tone-mapping operators used in AAA productions.
• LUT Support — use standard .CUBE or texture-based LUTs. Includes an in-editor LUT Browser.
• Sepia, B&W & Daltonize — creative and accessibility color transforms.

Lens & Lighting Effects

• Bloom — high-quality multi-pass bloom with customizable thresholds, tint, and layer exclusion.
• Anamorphic Flares — horizontal/vertical lens flares with spread and intensity controls.
• Sun Flares — procedural or directional light flares with ghosts and chromatic aberration.
• Lens Dirt — screen-space dirt/dust overlay that reacts to bloom intensity.
• Chromatic Aberration — lens fringe effect with configurable intensity.
• Depth of Field — bokeh-quality DoF with transparency support and focus tracking.
• Eye Adaptation — automatic exposure adjustment based on scene luminance.

Artistic Effects

• Vignetting — customizable screen-edge darkening with inner ring control.
• Outline — edge detection (Sobel method) for stylized or toon rendering.
• Night & Thermal Vision — preset vision modes for gameplay effects.
• Film Grain, Pixelate, Blur — additional creative post-effects.

See It in Action

Requirements

Next Steps

Ready to get started? Follow the recommended path:

1. Quick Start — see your first result in 5 minutes.
2. Setup Guide — learn about renderer features, volumes, and configuration options.
3. Parameters Reference — full list of every setting and what it does.
4. FAQ — common questions answered.