ColorStrokes App Reviews

This app is a blast! I recently go a boatload of old B&W family photos - some as old as 1880. Several were quite faded so I thought I’d give them a bit of life with a little tinting here and there. Well! Suddenly, my Great-Grandmother looked like a 19th Century Grand Dame. One thing led to another … Before I knew it, my Aunt Esther out on the prairies of 1940 Montana looked like a heroine from a John Steinbeck novel! I tested a few other similar apps but they didn’t provide the same Oomph and were no way as easy to use. I do have two issues that may be due to my inexperience: the colors occasionally bleed into each other, and after about 1/2 hour of use I can’t click & drag a color - I have to “dot” the color, which is tedious. Having said that, the ability to alter the saturation and to sharpen or blur as needed, is excellent. Oh - there is one other thing I don’t care for: If I have to close something I’m working on, when I bring it back all my work is undone. The only way I’ve found around this is just don’t close the file. That can’t be right, right? I’m probably doing something wrong… Time will tell. UPDATE: Some of the issues I had seem to have been fixed since I bought a new computer and re-installed this app. Or I’ve just gotten better at it. One thing, though, that has become an issue is getting deep, rich colors. I played with hue & saturation, but I don’t seem to achieve a really good ruby red or an emerald green or cobalt blue - these still still elude me. AND, I still can’t get a colored picture back to re-adjust something if I’ve closed it. That is annoying.

it would have been awesome if it had text adding feature.

This is such as easy app to use, you can create really cool looking photos. its the Best!!

OMG! Just purchased this app and am absolutely LOVING it!! So easy and SO much fun!!! Can’t wait to try more with it!! :)

It goes dead after you have worked on a picture for a while, with continuously spinning wheel. I have wasted enough time on it and will be uninstalling. Here is the deathly message I get after forcing this app to close: "Unresponsive for 461 seconds before sampling"

I have to say this app is idiot proof. It makes taking your photography into a uniquely colored world, very easy. Don’t be afraid if you are worried about buying something not made by Adobe. It’s big brave creative world out there. And ColorStrokes is an amazing tool to get you into that world.

Easy to use, accurate, and more than acceptable output. Sadly the updates on this are slow. For some reason the developer has created Photos extensions versions of most of their software but not for this one, it hasn’t been updated since 2014….I wonder if the developer has abandoned it? All that aside, it really is worth the price!

Very Cool.