CameraBag began life several years ago as an iPhone app. This image editor let you easily add filters to photos shot with your mobile phone. It’s still available for the iPhone, but the software makers, Nevercenter, also branched out into a version that runs on Macs and PCs. You can buy CameraBag Desktop 1 for $19, or you can try CameraBag Desktop 2 for free during its public beta period, which began last week and runs “throughout the holiday season,” according to Nevercenter.
CameraBag Desktop 2 is no Photoshop contender, but it does have some good-looking presets that are easy to apply and just as easy to modify with simple context-sensitive sliders. Built-in previews show you how CameraBag’s styles (many of which are inspired by vintage film and cameras) would change your image before you apply anything.
You can also affect exposure, color balance, tone curve, shadows, highlights, and more. There’s a complement of borders, as well. Every edit you make with all of these tools is live—no pixels are permanently lost.
It’s an impressive interface, and even image-editing pros may enjoy the new perspective a new tool can bring. And it’s free to test, so what do you have to lose?
Click here to download the CameraBag Desktop 2 public beta. For an in-depth introduction, watch the video below.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on December 13, 2011
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