New iPhone Photo App: Colorator 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 10:25AM | Glyn Evans Black and white images with a touch of color
Description from the AppStore: With Colorator you can cast the photos on your iPhone / iPod to black and white, while keeping some of the colors unchanged.
Imagine blue eyes, red lips, colorful flowers or a showy t-shirt within a stylish black & white picture. Turn your simple photos into eyecatching memories!
How-To:
- pick a photo from your library or take a new one with the iPhone camera
- tap on your image to choose highlighted colors and all other colors will be cast to black and white or work the other way around and remove all selected colors
- apply the contrast filter to achieve an artsy effect and make your photos even more stylish
- save your fullsized image
For a Mac or Windows version of this Application and more information please visit www.colorator.com
AppStore Link: Colorator 2010 - Price £0.59/$0.99
Editors comments: The original Colorator app was released way back in October 2008, and was the only app that offered this effect at the time. Then in February 2009 along came ColorSplash which took the crown for effect.
The developer of Colorator may have left it too late to come back with an updated version of his app, and what may annoy people is the fact that this is not a FREE update, but a new version which has to be purchased again!!
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Reader Comments (3)
Beware. On the 3GS higher resolutions, this app does not in fact work. When saving it turns the image upsidedown and distorts it. I would hate anyone else to waste their money on this. Have usually been impressed with the iPhoneography suggested apps, but this isn't one of them !
@NigelG. Thanks for the feedback, and what I should have made clear when I posted news on the release of this app, is that ColorSplash is the best app for creating this effect, and so if you already have ColorSplash, then you do not need any other app, and if you don't have ColorSplash, then go get it :)
@Glyn. Thanks, Colorsplash gives you more control, but I am not that sold on the use of finger as paintbrush, and the top centre toggle for "Normal" vs "Red Bits" is really really badly UI design. Colorator has something that Colorsplash hasn't which is the "eyedropper" effect, so everything the same colour gets shown though, with Colorsplash you have to paint it. So I guess it is "easy mode" vs "pixel level". Perhaps there is room for both, if Colorator worked !! Anyway, Colorsplash did what I wanted, and then I stuck it through Camera Bag's Lolo filter and am pleased with the result, so all is well :)