Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | iPhone Photo News, Showcases, App Reviews

There are a ton of color “splash” apps available — you know, the apps that allow you to convert your photos to grayscale and selectively splash areas with color. Color Splash by Pocket Pixels is the first color splash app and still the best, in my opinion.

A new splash-type app was just released, Color Splash Pro by Everimaging Ltd. The name is deceptively similar to the excellent original Color Splash. Don’t be fooled. It is not an update, upgrade, or pro version to the original Color Splash app that is usually found at the top of the App Store sales rankings. It’s not sold by the same developer. While it’s not as bad as many of the other splash apps available, I found several issues with Color Splash Pro in addition to the name. It’s not a “pro” app and definitely not superior to the original Color Splash.

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Countdown t-minus five days to Black Friday. There are several major apps that are on sale this weekend in the App Store. AutoStitch Panorama, Color Splash, Live FX, and Perfect Photo are all on sale for a dollar off each. Some of the price reductions aren’t great, but collectively here’s the chance to save a couple of bucks if you’ve had your eye on any of these apps. I think all of these sale apps are recommended ones from good developers.

These sales are for a limited time only and could go at any time, so grab them now. Pricing and App Store links are after the jump. >>>

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I’m still surprised at how many photo apps still are not fully iOS4 compatible. I’m even more surprised at the number of camera apps that still don’t fully work with the iPhone 4. There have been a lot of slow days on the App Store updates page. That said, yesterday was not one of them and there were some really cool updates released, including updates to Color Splash, Camera Plus Pro (the Camera Plus with video), GorillaCam, and Tiffen’s Photo fx.

We’re still tracking and updating iPhone 4 compatibility in our iPhone 4 Photo App Compatibility Feature.

Read on for more details about yesterday’s updates.

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Magic Selection
Version 1.0
Price $0.99

Bottom Line: Clunky toolset, no online help, low-resolution output. Spend the extra dollar for Color Splash.

Magic Selection is a selective coloring app that allows you to apply color splash effects on your images or select and change the hue, brightness or saturation of an area of an image. This is an app that may be better suited for the larger screen real estate of an iPad. Selecting areas of an image for me was imprecise and frustrating.

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