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If you're a fan of desaturation and selective color apps like the Color Splash app, you're gonna love this Color Splash Studio Review! MacPhun, the creators of the ever-popular FX Photo Studio and many other great photo apps have recently launched Color Splash Studio, a selective color photo-editing app for Mac users. Let's talk color.</td>
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<li>Developed by Macphun</li>
<li>Desaturate images and add selective color to JPEG, PNG, TIFF and RAW files</li>
<li>Easy interface</li>
<li>Quick and effective editing</li>
<li>Share through email, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, and Twitter</li>
<li>Costs $1.99</li>
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<li>Simple, easy layout</li>
<li>Adjust diameter, softness, and opacity of color brush and use brush on grayscale layer</li>
<li>Adjust brightness, contrast, blur, saturation, hue, and exposure of color layer and grayscale layer</li>
<li>Easy undo / redo</li>
<li>Compare original to edit on-screen</li>
<li>Opens all file types including RAW</li>
<li>Save as JPEG, JPEG 2000, Open EXR, PNG, and TIFF</li>
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<li>Large files are slow to edit and save</li>
<li>Only one editing window / photo open at a time</li>
<li>No in-app cropping or rotation</li>
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<strong>√ Beginner iPhone Photographers</strong>
 Advanced iPhone Photographers
 Anyone

This simple app makes selective color desktop editing a snap! 

[/tab] [tab id="5"]Color Splash Studio for Mac is perfect for the beginner editor and color splash enthusiast, a fantastic and reasonably priced app for desaturation / selective color.[/tab] 

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<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>

Whether you call it selective color, desaturation, color splash, or...any other name under the sun, selective color editing apps have been huge in the last few years. Since Color Splash app was release on the iPhone, there's been every incarnation under the sun...but this one is a little bit different. Macphun's Color Splash Studio for Mac is a great new desktop editing program for creating desaturated images with selective color. It offers a plethora of simple editing features and is a great testament to "do one thing and do it well".   

The app itself is an exercise in simplicity, simply load a photo (either via drag and drop, import, or saved image) and it will appear already desaturated in the viewfinder. The app home screen shows a toolbar at the top of the viewfinder and as well as the main editing brushes (color, grayscale, and panning) on the right hand side of the screen. The home screen is easy to navigate, and really intuitive making it a great place to start for beginners or anyone who doesn't want to load up photoshop just to desaturate.  

So once you've got your photo loaded you can use the brush pallet to begin editing. You can select the size, softness and opacity of each of the brushes. Further to that as you brush over your image you can then edit the brightness, contrast, blur, saturation, hue, and exposure. It's so simple, you can hardly go wrong...but if you do there's an easy Undo / Redo function in the main toolbar. Once finished you can save in various formats, and share via email, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, or Twitter...as we see it the only one that's missing is Instagram! 

Frankly, we've got very few complaints about the app - on the whole it works really well. It is a bit slow to load if you're working with large files such as RAW, but on the whole it is really speedy. The only thing we would've liked to see here would be basic cropping or rotation, which would've been useful so that if your photos need a basic crop or rotation you don't have to open another program to do it...but we're not grumbling too much about this.   

So there you have it, a simple, easy, desaturation selective color editor that does exactly what it says on the tin! If you love selective color, get yourself Macphun's Color Splash Studio for Mac today! 
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<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>

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