# Photo Color Painter — Paint on Grayscale Photo

> Paint on Grayscale Photo (iPhone/iPad app by Heng Jia Liang.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-color-painter/id1582126497 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Heng Jia Liang](https://appshunter.io/developer/1532000635)
- Category: Graphics & Design, Photo & Video
- Price: $2.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2021-08-21
- Data updated: 2026-08-24
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-color-painter/id1582126497/reviews.md

## What is Photo Color Painter?

Photo Color Painter provides two color painting modes for photos: Original Color Painting and Custom Color Painting.

Original Color Painting turns an original color photo into black and white, allowing you to paint and revive the original color.
Custom Color Painting turns an original color photo into black and white, letting you repaint it with your desired colors.

Original Color Painting:
• Paint your photo into an artistic black and white image while highlighting specific color objects.
• Photos become more attractive with grayscale surroundings and highlighted color.

Custom Color Painting:
• Add realistic colors to black-and-white photos.
• Simply select a color from the color panel and paint it onto the black-and-white photo.
• Designed for painting old black-and-white photos into color.
• A creative tool to recolor your photos.
• Great for recoloring old photos.

The intuitive and responsive multi-touch user interface makes Photo Color Painter incredibly easy and fun to use. Use your finger as a brush to "paint" sections of your image with color. Zooming in and out using the two-finger pinch gesture allows for pixel-accurate detail work.

Features:
• User-friendly interface.
• Import your picture from the gallery or take a photo with the camera.
• Automatically convert your photo into black and white.
• Set image size to small, medium, or large.
• Use two fingers to zoom or pan for detailed painting.
• Hard and soft circular brush options. [Original Color Painting]
• Paint or erase mode. [Custom Color Painting]
• Adjustable brush size.
• Undo/Redo for any mistakes made.
• Preview the color image while painting.
• Save the final image to your photo library or share it on social media.

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## Chart rankings

- #40 in Top Paid · Graphics & Design (US App Store)


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-02-20

- Updated for the newest devices.
- Minor bugs fixed.

### 1.1 — 2024-10-02

- Updated for the newest devices.
- Minor bugs fixed.

### 1.0 — 2021-08-21

No release notes.

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All apps by Heng Jia Liang: https://appshunter.io/developer/1532000635

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