I came across Palettes today while looking for a free app to recommend to you. The app normally costs 1.99 euros on iOS, which at first glance seems redundant.Discover this fascinating app that brings out the colors in your photos
What should I pay attention to when taking pictures? Sharpness or resolution? To the frame or to the theme? Lately, I’ve been trying to pay special attention to color in photo projects. That’s why I found our free app today really exciting and I hope you find it useful too!
In effect, Palettes allow you to decorate your photos with bars that show the most important colors of the image. Like its functions, the use of the app is particularly minimalistic, as it is enough to select an image and then adjust the colors. Is the app worth it?
Why is this free app worth it?
Before I answer this question, let me state this: a color palette won’t make your photos look better, and you can’t make “better” photos with it. Color palettes can enhance the photos you take and bring some awareness to your gallery app.
As mentioned before, select a photo from the iPhone gallery and you’ll see a prominent color bar at the top of the screen. If you don’t like the photo of your choice, you can modify it. Also, you can move the bars around the image, which can produce some really cool results.
The functional scope of the Palette is of course limited, but the application is still exciting. / © Palette / Screenshot: kwgeek
So the palette becomes an exciting possibility to rediscover old photos. Alternatively, the color palette also allows you to sort photos with similar colors. For example, many photographers beautify their Instagram feeds by standardizing the colors of their photos. You can do this nicely with Palettes.
Here’s another use case I pulled from the app: if you open the camera in the app, the color bar also appears. This will allow you to see the most important colors in the part of the image in real time. This will teach you a little about paying attention to color when taking everyday photos and see how colors change depending on light or time.
Tips: Take the same photo at noon and at night. You may see the blue hour effect when the color takes on a nice blue tint.
Does this free app respect your personal data?
According to the AppStore, Palettes – Photo Editor does not collect personal data. Also, the app is still under active development, as the latest update last week and a bunch of bug fixes were made.
Are you careful with apps that access your photos? You can then give the palette access to only certain photos. Therefore, the app does not directly access your entire gallery.
What do you think of this unconventional camera app? Do you like it or do you find it redundant? Share your opinion in the comments!