Selective color preservation
This colour splash effect isolates specific hues by keeping your chosen colors vivid while muting the rest of the image. It acts as an advanced image color tinter, letting you pull a subject out from its background without manual masking.
You can pick a target color directly from the preview or enter a hex code. Because lighting changes how hues appear, adding multiple keep-colors allows you to cover shadows and highlights for a cleaner mask.
Tuning the mask edges
The tolerance control determines how strictly the tool matches your target color. A tight tolerance works well for sharp graphic art, while a wider tolerance captures natural lighting gradients in photography.
Softness feathers the boundary between the preserved areas and the background. This smooth transition prevents the image from looking artificially cut out, making the color splash effect blend naturally into the original photo.
Background desaturation and contrast
Instead of acting as a harsh image color inverter, you control exactly how gray the unselected areas become. Lower desaturation leaves a subtle color tint in the background, which feels softer and more editorial.
If you need a stronger contrast, push the background toward pure black and white. The keep-color boost then acts as a selective color tint image adjustment, gently intensifying the preserved hues so they stand out clearly against the muted background.