Google offers a handy feature in its Photos app that allows users to extract the subject from the background by applying a black and white filter to the background, while keeping the subject's original colors. Google's algorithm does a good job of extracting the main subject from the background, but there are some limitations to the feature.
Create a Color Pop Effect in Photoshop Tutorial
For example, Color Pop only applies to a handful of photos on Google Photos. Second, you can’t manually edit photos after you apply the Color Pop effect. Luckily for you, you can create photos with the Color Pop effect using yet another Google product: Snapseed.
Snapseed has grown into a powerful photo editor on Android and most importantly, it’s free. You can enhance images with one-touch tools, fine-tune images with sliders, edit RAW photos, apply double exposure effect, add filters, add text effects, create perfect portraits and selfies, and give your photos a new look in just minutes. You can even save your edits in Snapseed to reuse them on another photo.
One of those tools in Snapseed is the ability to create the Color Pop effect on your photos, something that Google Photos doesn't let you do. Here are a few examples of the Color Pop effect that we created.
