Android App of the Day: Color Pop!

"Color Pop!" for android is one those cool wee apps that more or less does one thing and does it well. Color Pop! lets you take any image and it will remove all colour from it. (Click on the screenshots for full size).

You can then put back whatever pieces of colour you think would be best. Or you can start with all the colours and remove just the pieces you want to remove.

You can create some striking effects with not too much effort. My own efforts so far have been fairly pedestrian, but I'm sure with a little experience the imagination will kick in and anyone using this app will making some seriously cool images for phone or PC backgrounds or maybe as illustrations for web sites, home made cards - whatever. In the smaller image below, I took a pic of a rose in our garden and swiped the colour back into the flower in a few seconds. Far from finished, but you get the idea.

Color Pop provides you with several basic controls and the brush tool. You can make the brush large for the wide open spaces you want to sort out quickly.

For finer work, you can magnify the image and decrease the size of the brush - right down to pixel level. To help you avoid making mistakes, the "Move" button turns off the Pop (removing colour) and unpopping (putting it back) so you can move the brush tool safely. You quickly get into the habit of using "Move" once you've dragged the brusch accidentally across an area you just painstakingly perfected!

You can also set the level of saturation. You may not want all the colour back at the same level....or yo might want to pour it on and over-saturate the image.

It's a fun app. More productive than playing a game...and you end up with some cool images. Here is one my own efforts of some flowers in our garden. This image isn't as large as the original Color Pop! produced. I right-click-saved this one from my twitpic uploaded image, so it's the default twitpic.com size.