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ColorSplash lets you quickly and easily give photos a dramatic look by converting them to black and white, while keeping your chosen details in color

The granddaddy of the color splash apps, ColorSplash was updated today. While not sporting any big new features, the new 1.6 update is almost more of a maintenance release which adds a few new features and performance enhancements, finally taking more advantage of some of the features of iOS 4 APIs.

Here’s a list of what’s new in the 1.6 update:

• Images are displayed in better quality and higher resolution during editing
• Added AirPrint support for wireless printing (requires iOS 4.2)
• Photo metadata is preserved in saved images (requires iOS 4.2)
• Improved handling of high resolution images
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Other splash apps have gained preference with iPhoneographers lately, but ColorSplash pretty much invented this class of app and is still a solid performer.

ColorSplash is normally $1.99 but is currently on sale for only 99¢ in the App Store. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It’s old iPhone-friendly and requires iOS 3.1 or later.

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Colorize sample

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Selective color app Colorize by Widgetize is on sale this weekend for only 99¢ — that’s half off the $1.99 it normally goes for. Colorize lets you selectively recolor your photos. It’s different from ColorSplash and other “splash” apps in that it allows you to easily select a color and recolor selected areas of your image, giving you superior control of your colorizations.

For the job it does, it has a good tool set. It has variable brush size and variable brush hardness. For recolorizing or creating color splash effects, it’s a pretty versatile app.

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Right now, there are several cool photo apps on sale in the App Store. This is probably the largest bunch of major apps on sale at the same time that I’ve ever seen.

This is an excellent chance to fill in gaps in your iPhone’s Camera Bag. We’ve listed the end dates of the sales if we have them. Others, if the dates aren’t there, they probably won’t be on sale for long — possibly only hours. Some of the prices on these apps are about as low as you’ll see — especially FX Photo Studio and AutoStitch Panorama, so if you’ve been thinking about these, grab them now before prices go back up.

Open up your iTunes, bust out the Visa card and click past the jump to check out the great sales. >>>

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ColorSplash

ColorSplash by PocketPixels is on sale for the very first time for one week, through November 27, 2009. Normally going for $1.99 USD, right now you can grab this app for half off, $0.99.

From the app description:

ColorSplash lets you quickly and easily give photos a dramatic look by converting them to black and white, while keeping your chosen details in color. This effect — known as a “cutout” or “selective color” — draws the viewers’ attention to the colored areas.

ColorSplash screenshot

Since its release, ColorSplash has spent a lot of time at or near the very top of the paid apps of the Photography section of the App Store — quite an impressive feat. It’s received great reviews from many app and iPhoneography websites. If you don’t already have ColorSplash and have been on the fence about it, this is a great opportunity to snag this great app.

App Store link: ColorSplash

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