CameraBag Desktop - Review

The interface of CameraBag is simple, and by saying it's simple is a gross understatement. Just like the Picturesque app any beginner can use the application very easily without any help whatsoever. There is a central work canvas region to which a picture has to be dragged, found below are the different filters or effects that can be selected and unselected by just clicking on it. The upper part of the app contains the toolbar which provides functions to rotate to reprocess, select output size, border and cropping. By enabling the Multi-filter checkbox you can stack the effects on each other. Once a filter or effect has been applied to an image hitting the reprocess button will bring about subtle but effective variations of the effect which add so much more to default effect. This comes is handy especially when you are stacking or adding multiple filters.

CameraBag is designed with the everyday casual photographer in mind, therefore it works with utmost simplicity. Need to post an image to Facebook or MySpace, why not spruce it up by just dragging and dropping it into CameraBag before you upload? It just adds that cool factor to your pictures. CameraBag provides 10 basic filters including popular styles such as Helga (that’s holga style), Instant (polaroid look), and colorcross (cross processing). These 10 primary filters are by themselves some of the most simple but effective post processing primaries that can be applied to an image. Featurewise the app satisfies most user requirements, however I would love to see iPhoto integration which would make the app much more useful. Presets is yet another feature that would work well in an app such as CameraBag, definitely saving time since the user doesn’t have to play around with the effects to get that specific style he or she got with their previous photo.