TUAW's Daily Mac App: iSplash
It's great to have lots of options of apps, and today's Daily Mac App adds to the plethora of colorization apps. iSplash is a selective color app just like Colorize and ColorWash, which we've covered before.
iSplash is probably the simplest of the colorization apps we've played with so far. It's got an "open from iPhoto" dialog (although it'll open photos using Finder too), simple "Splash" painting tools (a brush) and undo/redo. There aren't any fancy fill features, or even a simple fill tool for that matter, but you can do just the same manually with a resizable brush tool that's managed with the "Splash size" slider on the tool bar.
You can zoom in for precision work, and when you're finished you can export the image as a PNG. There aren't any options to speak of (you can't change the output format for instance), but iSplash will accept photos from anywhere and in PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and BMP formats.
If you're looking for a load of features and output options, you should look elsewhere. In fact, feature for feature, ColorWash is a better pick, especially since they're both on sale for US$0.99.
It's good to have options, though, and that's just what iSplash is: another option. It'll do the job, just not as well as some others.
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I bought this app, but ultimately deleted it when I found I could do the same thing in Pixelmator very easily. This iSplash app is slow and buggy. Crashed often. The more you use it, the more it slows down. The interface is confusing. It also doesn't offer a variety of brush shapes or a selection tool. Just an adjustable size round eraser. For the price I can't really complain, but after doing 2 pix with it, I spent the time learning to do it the right way in Pixelmator. I'm so glad I did.
In Pixelmator: Open an Image. In the layers dialog, duplicate the existing layer. In the newly made layer, choose desaturate image from the menu to make it black and white. Now, just grab the eraser tool or selection tools and delete the areas you want colored. This deletes the black and white layer and exposes the colored layer below. Quick and easy!
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