Our Verdict
Selective desaturation — convert a photo to shameful - and - clean while leaving the color of one part of the photo untouched — can really draw attention to a picture . Hendrik Kueck’sColorSplashbrings that simulacrum - redaction capability to the iPhone and iPod ghost with center - catching results .
A Little Splash of colour : ColorSplash work your images black - and - white , grant you to restore color to selected area with the brushwood of a finger .
When you launch ColorSplash , it asks you either to prefer an image from your photo library or — if you ’re using an iPhone — snap one using the machine ’s built - in camera . Once an icon is in place , ColorSplash desaturates it , giving you a set of tools to get back the color selectively . You only sweep your finger over the component part you want wreak into focus , restoring the colour in those areas as you sweep . ( Note that you ca n’t switch the colors in the image or alter it in any other way using this app . )
A Little Splash of Color: ColorSplash turns your images black-and-white, allowing you to restore color to selected areas with the brush of a finger.
Three buttons along the bottom let you switch between different musical mode — Color , which allow you use your finger as a brush to restore color to areas of the image ; Gray , which behaves in the diametrical fashion so that you may make any areas you ’ve overshot with your coloring ; and Pan & Zoom , which allow you to align the rapid growth stratum and locating of your image without accidentally altering it in any way . The top of the screen features button for choose the brush case and undo all your steps up to the first stroke , along with a menu clitoris for economize and loading images .
ColorSplash gives you the option of choosing between two view modes at the top of the screen — one that usher the image as it is and another that overlays the colored area of the concealment with a red masquerade party , making it easy for you to make finer modification and control that there are no rough edge . The program hides the status bar as well to give you maximal possible screen real the three estates .
While that constitutes the basics of the interface , there are some other nice touches in ColorSplash that make the task of edit promiscuous . Whenever you put two fingerbreadth on the screen , the app go into Pan & Zoom style — you may then move your fingerbreadth together to pan around or squeeze - and - expound them to zoom into the image and vice versa . Turning the phone sideways triggers the app ’s landscape mode , which is well befit for sure images . Tapping the screenland with a single finger’s breadth gets rid of the toolbars at the top and bottom of the concealment , giving you the entire 320 - by-480 - pixel blind on which to work .
While you’re able to adjust the app ’s setting to switch the brush size , make the brush tip visible , and toggle the landscape painting way on and off among other changes , the developer suggests that you entrust the brush size at the default setting and not turn on the choice to exchange the brush size from within the applications programme . Since ColorSplash allows you to zoom into the range right up to the pixel horizontal surface , it ’s better to soar up in to make fine adjustments instead of making the thicket size of it diminished . And that ’s good advice — I’ve found that it ’s insufferable to see the changes the skirmish tip is making at the small size because they ’re cover by your large fingertip .
Once you ’re done shrink from with an prototype , you may hit the Menu button and spare it to your Camera roll and then sync it to the photo program library on your electronic computer . ColorSplash automatically keep open your session so that you do not lose any change if a call come in or you quit the program . In my examination , ColorSplash never dash or posed any other problems .
The app has one major fault , though — it considerably downgrades the calibre of the emended prototype in comparison to the original one , which means that the final result can only realistically be used for displaying on a sieve . When I edited a 2.4 megabit 3,363 - by-2,402 image , for example , the last result cease up being only 199 KB in size and 1,023 - by-731 in firmness of purpose — surely not something you could get a comme il faut mark out of .
That said , ColorSplash is still a nifty practical app , invest Photoshop - style capabilities in your pocket .
ColorSplash is compatible with any iPhone or iPod trace running the iPhone 2.x software system update .
[ Aayush Arya blogs about the Mac at MacUser . ]
