Color Effects - Photo Editor Reviews

by Jane_Ang

So a long time ago I got ColorEffects and loved it to death. It was free, worked really well, and was really fun. My iPad crashed and I had to restore the whole thing. I come back to fund that the once free app that I used regularly has been replaced by a paid app. Now this wouldn't be so bad if it was charged up front or if it was pay to get the apps removed. No ladies and gentlemen. To recolonize at all you have to pay a dollar. To recolor like I use to I now have to pay money? I loved ColorEffects so much but it became cheap and slick. Do not download if you expect a free app where you recolor. It's false advertising. If it was changed to just if you don't want adds you pay this would be fine, but this has changed it fully. Thank you for ruining my day.

by AllAboutDogs

I first tried the free Color Effects app, I wanted the option to add color, so I almost immediately upgraded to the purchased version. Disappointingly, I’m not able to see much difference, if any at all, I can’t do anything with the color after I choose it. After selecting the color, there is no way to go back to the photo. If I do use the BACK button to return to my photo, either the image isn’t there and there’s only a blank gray screen, or the coloring function isn’t working when the photo is tapped or touched. I tried deleting ColorEffects and reinstalling it, but it’s making me buy it again. I’m at a loss...

by AL010101010101

You have to pay $0.99 to actually change colors. Thankfully that’s all it costs as it is a complete waste of money and time. Such a stupid app. It does not change colors easily (tried adding a cranberry color on top of a white article of clothing and it came out an extremely pale red. You have to use your finger to then add back the original color of the photo. This is suitable for a young child who wants to completely change the color of the entire photo to something “fun”, not for adults looking to quickly add or change a realistic color to a photo. Don’t bother.

by Jamiemurphy10

ColorEffects doesn’t do anything. If you’re looking to recolor your picture, DO NOT DOWNLOAD ColorEffects. It’s a free download but you can’t do any recoloring unless you accept the in-app purchases prompted. So I did. But the function still doesn’t work. Once again, IT DOESN’T ALLOW FOR RECOLORING OF YOUR PICTURE that we are looking for when we decide to download ColorEffects (only turned grey/ monochromatic color). Oh and one more thing, ColorEffects interface is horrible, even such basic underperforming features were made confusing to use. Requested for refund because ColorEffects literally doesn’t perform its functions as advertised but got denied. -10 star if I can give that.

by Fototico

ColorEffects is junk full of ads. And I am talking full screen ads with videos. I refuse to pay for a full version for an app such as this. Full screen ads make the developers look desperate and beggars. It also makes ColorEffects look cheap. I am deleting ColorEffects.

It also has water marks and it seems that it won't go away unless you rate this lousy app five stars. It only shows how pathetic the developers are. How can they watermark a picture that they have no legal rights to? It seeks to be to be a scam app by scam artists. I wonder if Apple knows about this?

Don't waste your time, not worth your time and much less your money.

by Loni N

App is horrible! Once you download it does not allow you to do anything. You have to purchase the features. Once I downloaded and uploaded one of my pictures to work on ColorEffects wanted my finger scan which is used to purchase from ColorEffects Store. Very slick. If you are going to charge for ColorEffects just charge for it up front. Don't let me waste my time and storage space if your marketing something that is not actually a free app. If your looking for a app like this I suggest looking for a similar app somewhere else. The one feature that you can use is to bring back color which is on the original picture. And even that is not all that great, I've used better.

by NightLord Raven

ColorEffects looks great and is pretty easy to use... other than of course having to pay for recoloring and to remove ads. I wouldn’t mind the adds to use the recoloring but having to pay to use that and get rid of ads I don’t mind seem a bit... redundant. Even more so that I could get a simple app like this for a computer cost free and able to use all the features it offers. So if the devs of this ever see this review then please get rid of the pay wall and instead make it optional. ColorEffects overall shows a lot of promise for mobile users who don’t have access to a computer and still try to do some sort of quality recolor.

by JaGoesRawr

ColorEffects works fantastically for it's intended purpose! Labeling it as a free app is very misleading, however, because you do have to purchase the full version to actually use the recolor feature. Despite that, I purchased the full recolor capabilities and it was working great. All the tools work well, and the interface is outdated but very easy to use. BUT... I am unable to save ANYTHING! I worked for a long time on recoloring an image, and am unable to save it, or any other projects. Any time I attempt to save, photo or video, ColorEffects crashes and the image doesn't save. Typically, I wouldn't bother leaving a review if this happened and would just delete ColorEffects , but because I paid for the full version of ColorEffects , I'm very disappointed that I'm unable to save my work. I would request a refund or help with a solution from the developer.

by Tuftung

I’ve had ColorEffects for a long time and used to love it. BUT THEN, today it stopped loading pics to edit. I’d select a photo and the edit screen would pop up with no photo. I tried it several times, no update needed, closed ColorEffects , reopened. Nothing. So I deleted it to reload it, thought maybe that would help. But now I can’t use the color features like I could before without paying for it!? All the stuff I would do that made the photo editing process fun and WAS FREE, is now trying to charge me if I still want to use it. And all because ColorEffects didn’t work in the first place leading me to delete it. I’m just disappointed. So I will be deleting it permanently. Sad, it used to be good.

by JuJuIzBac

I just paid the .99 upgrade then all of a sudden I was charged $1.05. No big deal. Got to play with ColorEffects and when try to save the pic on my phone it just crashes and apps turns off. Did this several times so I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. Now it’s asking me to pay once again to upgrade! I event have the proof of purchase in my email.

Update: I finally got my account back. Didn’t do anything cause I was gonna just get a different app but it still crashes when I try to save the picture to my phone. I have to email it to myself and get it from there. What a hassle. Still looking for different apps if this still keeps up.

by Llama Sama

Hey, I downloaded app and have been using it for maybe almost a year now. I purchased the “pro” version to let me actually recollection things back then, too. However, I started having problems with ColorEffects today: it wouldn’t let me save any of my work to my photos. So I uninstalled it and went to redownload it... lo and behold, it says I have to pay yet again to access the “pro” version that I’ve had for almost a year. Why? Is there anyway I can just have access to the recolor option again since I’ve already paid?? The reason for the rating is because it’s asking me to pay again for a feature I should still have access to, not allowing me to download my work into my album, and I honestly haven’t been entirely happy with the color wheel provided for recoloring; however, ColorEffects is the best I can do at the moment and wish to continue using it. Please help me out here so I can keep recoloring photos.

by Scan95

Changing the color was pretty easy. Two items keep this from being 5 Star.

1. Doesn’t allow the user to start from the original photo. Changes it to black/white then the user must add back in the color. So if you just want to change a very small portion (maybe a shirt color in Family photo) you have to start with the entire photo.

2. Least desired attribute is the exported photo, once finished, looks blurry. Has the characteristics of a photo that has been highly compressed for export. If you are just looking to change something for Facebook ... probably not an issue. If you want to print the final photo, ColorEffects probably not the right one.

by The-One-Who-Likes-To-Draw

I use ColorEffects mainly to recolor the background of a picture. At first this worked out perfectly for me and everything was fine. But recently I have been having some problems. Whenever I try to recolor the background of a picture, it instead
Is a pale color far off from what I had intended. For example, say I have a bowl of fruit with a yellow background and I want to change only the background to dark blue. If I color the entire picture, the fruit shows up dark blue, but the background is a pale light blue/purple color. Is there anyway I can fix this?

by Myellow160

I have used ColorEffects a couple of years ago, and fell in love with it, I got a new phone and only just now re downloaded it to quickly do a picture with it. Right away unnoticed a difference, before when I used the recolor option, it was free, and amazing, now that I have re downloaded it, I have to pay .99$ to get that option and remove the adds. I'm not sure why that is, not that .99$ is a big amount or anything, but comparing to before when it was free I don't like that much. But it's still a great app to use.

by Djdaniel0717

We recently had family photos done by a professional photographer. My wife had already picked out matching clothes that would go with mine and my sons outfit. I had a red plaid shirt, he wore a red shirt with navy stripes, and my wife wore a navy shirt to tie it all in. Well, the photos turned out great but my wife was a little bummed that she had failed to add any red in her outfit as the blue color in the plaid shirt I had on showed up more than we expected due to the background. Using "color effects" I altered the color of her shirt from blue to red in about 10 minutes! Once I had the color right, I went back and added the original color to everything else. My only suggestion would be to maybe have an option to grey out a selected area only to so that only that portion of the photo gets changed. This would prevent having to add the original color back to the full photo once the color change is successful. It worked perfect the way it is for this picture specifically but I think that an option like that would benefit in other situations. Regardless, thanks to ColorEffects, we now have our perfect Christmas card! I would highly recommend and It does exactly what it describes. Watch the video tutorial and you'll enjoy it quicker with out having to learn it the layout. The video is only about 5 minutes or so and the narrators voice is very monotone, but it did help!

by *** JJ ***

I've had ColorEffects for a long time, and I've got to say, it's one of my favorites. The controls are easy to use, and the possibilities are endless. However recently I just got it on my iPad and found that you had to pay for recoloring, but the recent update fixed it and made it free again. I'm giving ColorEffects five stars not just because they added recoloring again, but because this is overall a great app.

by IReviewer_IOS_Games~

I've seen around that people are talking smack about ColorEffects beinng horrible and you have to pay for stuff, but I haven't had any problems with it. Recolor is very easy to use with simple tools to get the look you want. I've been using ColorEffects for years now and it's been wonderful. The only thing that's been weird is that when I put in a photo is comes out kinda fuzzy. So maybe they could fix the fuzziness. Otherwise, excellent app. (I love the glow one too!!) :D

by JNodine

I really liked ColorEffects until I tried to save my finished image to my photos. It said it saved, but it wasn't there when I opened photos. I came here to the reviews and noticed a lit of other people had the same issue. Then I checked my phone to see if I missed an update, and I had. After I downloaded and ran the latest iPhone update, I opened ColorEffects again and saved my work to photos without any problem.

by Tampico-chan

I love ColorEffects. I've had it for years. I love to recolor pics, especially eyes. The zoom is great, it has a full color pallet along with memorizing past colors you have used, and the auto correct is amazing for the small spots.

Really the only annoying thing is that the ads are all "minigames" which makes my device run slower. But ads is how the free version is paid for, you wait a few seconds and can click to "X" out, and then you are back to your project.

Thanks!

by Diana Chow

i used this to help me pick the color for a pair of sunglasses i was painting over as a DIY project. ColorEffects made all the difference and helped me pick the optimal color since i was able to see what the frames would look like with the colored lenses that were already on it. so much easier than me attempting to do the same in Photoshop. THANK YOU! it took me a couple minutes to figure out on my own. the conversion to grayscale right off the bat threw me off a bit, it'd be nice if that was an option you could disable.