New iPhone Photo App: SpotColor

Description from the AppStore: Add flare and pizzazz to your pics. The effect known as adding "Spot Color" allows you to highlight specific parts of your pictures by leaving the color intact and allow other parts of your picture to be deemphasized by converting them to shades of gray.

Just load any picture from your photo library or camera and you will be presented with your photo in shades of gray. Now just use your finger to brush the color back into the areas that you want to highlight. Add a little too much color back? Just switch to the gray brush and use your finger to erase away the color just like magic! You can use the iPhone pinch to zoom in and out to get more control. SpotColor even supports the single-tap and double-tap zoom gestures.

SpotColor also supports undo/redo so that you can easily undo any mistakes as you go along.

When you are done, you can save your masterpiece back to your photo library or share it with your friends by emailing it right within the SpotColor app.

Tips

• Need more control for detail work? Just zoom in using the zoom pinch and you can get into those tight areas.
• Need to easily scroll around while using the color or gray brush? Try dragging with two fingers. Paint with one finger. Scroll with two. It works great!
• SpotColor does not add or change the colors of your pictures. It lets you highlight your pictures with their original colors, while subtracting out the color from areas of your pictures that you want to deemphasize for dramatic effect.
• Having trouble seeing the boundaries of where you have applied color? Toggle on the "View Mask" feature to see clearly where the color is being exposed.

AppStore Link: SpotColor - Price £1.19/$1.99

Editors comments: This looks like an interesting app, and a possible contender to ColorSplash.

Comments

[distance photography]

this is a great app. i've been using it a lot over the past few days and it has definitely improved the photographs i can get out of my iphone. some great effects!