COMPANY: Lawrence Murray | URL: www.indii.org | TYPE: Standalone, Plug-in | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $16
The tintii filter plugin for Adobe® Photoshop®, Photoshop Elements and Corel® Paint Shop Pro® lets you apply selective color effects in conjunction with tools such as desaturation brushes, scripting and batch processing. Tintii is a great asset in the toolkit of professional or hobbyist photographers, graphic designers and web designers.

tintii takes full color photos and processes them into black and white with some select regions highlighted in color. The technique is known as color popping or selective colouring – tintii makes it easy.

Striking color pops in seconds

Think Schindler’s List’s little girl in red, or the dramatic style of Sin City. tintii takes a color photo and cleverly separates it into a handful of major hues. You then select which colors to pop, and the rest become black & white.

tintii involves no tedious selections or masking, or rigid preselected colors, just a few mouse clicks and a great color-select effect. Additional post-processing controls facilitate finer control, such as edge softening and greyscale mixing.