CameraBag 2 App Reviews

CameraBag is well-organized, easy to use, and powerful. The effects can be dramatic, but they can also be subtle. They are always high-quality. It’s light and fast, doing what I want with my photos simply and quickly (and beautifully). It took me a bit to acclimate to the (v2.7) redesign, but I now have all of my old filters/cameras/borders back in sections in the Presets tab, and I LOVE being able to make folders in the Presets folder in Finder and have them show up as sections in the Presets tab—I can finally organize and group my filters without relying on creative naming strategies. v2.8 update: So happy to have Zoom in, especially when doing adjustments like Sharpen, and the histograms are great. Nice software growth without bloat, and still uncompromisingly fast.

I like this photo adjusting app and recommend it highly. The only complaint is that as a very basic digital photo adjustor myself, I asked nerve center a question twice and never received an answer. My question was and still is: you have one youtube video on curves and it was good. But you have several adjustments with various curves ( tone, gamma, coloring, RGB). When you are a beginner with curve adjustments, it is confusing how to use them? Something such as a step by step explanation would be appreciated. Some more basic instructions for manipulating curves would be great. If nervecenter doesn’t have more basic explanation, maybe nervecenter can refer to some site on internet that explains. I haven’t found it yet.

Seems like an easy way to edit photos but it keeps closing……please fix!

This is one of my go to apps for fast edits on photos but the one problem with it is the blur tool everytime it is used on a photo the app crashes. This is something that needs to be fixed I hope it will be addressed in a update soon. Other than that I am happy with it. Dec. 14 2015 Version 2.8.0 Review: Something that is wrong after the update is that photos do not keep the metadata. That is a big probelm I hope you will fix this issue soon.

i tried using this 3 times……each time it crashed before i could save my work. too bad…..it seemed like a great app

I have no idea how some people are getting crashes. Never once has this app crashed on me. Mid-2013 Macbook Air, El Capitan. My go-to photo editor.

I had my eyes on this app for a few days, and then it went on sale, and I jumped at the opportunity to buy it. The app is excellent, and well worth the money. It looks very clean, is easy to use, and is loaded with features. As an amatuer photographer, this app honesly makes me feel like a pro because there’s so many things I can do with it, and again, its loaded with features, so I can make my photos look amazing. If you’re into photography, buy this app. You will not regret it.

This app used to be great offering a ton of different preset filters and different camera type filters, but for some reason they decided to cut down on a lot of that. It’s pretty basic now with just making minor toning adjustments. I used to enjoy it for adding a quick fun look to some of my photos, but now I have no reason to use it ever. It was more fun when it was like Instagram x1000.

I have downloaded so many applications that have promised stunning photo editing results (based on the promo pics on their appstore pages) and I’ve bounced between the same 2 experiences with all of them. The first experience is; the application does not have “easy” to work-with filters. I have to spend a long period of time fine-tuning and manipulating the editing tools to get the photo to look the way I want, rather than simply applying a filter and then manipulating that filter’s settings (like in Instagram, as an example). The second experience is; the application has the number of filters it says it does in the application description, but they’re so lacking in quality it’s hard to describe them without sounding “mean". I wind up paying anywhere from $6 to $35 and when I open the application I see the filters are horrid. After having feasted my eyes upon the disaster of filters in one particular application, I found myself thinking “it looks like a 6th grader threw these filters together”, it was that bad. I mean, who wants to pay for an application that is full of filters - 6 of which turn your photo a completely single color; one turns your photo green, the other blue, the other yellow, the other red, the other - a deeper red… the entire photo turns a single color, essentially. They tell you there’s 100+ filters to work with and it’s true, but the usability of these filters? Is extremely minimal (I think that’s a generous assessment). This application has functional, quality, filters. And the quicklook option is great. It’s useable and it’s functional, and it’s a necessity I look for - a preview window that actually works. Thank You to the makers of this application! Update: After using this application a bunch I have a suggested function for the developers to add: I love the QuickLook option and thought Id throw out a suggestion that would make saving photos with CameraBag2 an easier and quicker process. For me, I like to save each photo a number of different times with a number of different filters. Right now I have to do that save - and naming each file I save - manually. However, if you added a sort of "Quick Save" option for each thumbnail in the QuickLook page, that would save users an incredible amount of time. What I would love to see is a quick save option for each thumbnail, with each filter having a suffix (of my choosing) simply added to the end of my existing photo name. It could be that simple. So (in the Quick Look layout) every time I want to save a photo with a different filter I simple right click the thumbnail, choose "quicksave", and the application adds a suffix to my existing photo name, and saves it to the folder I set it to save to. A couple of clicks, and the save is complete, then Im off to save that same photo with another filter... and so on and so forth. I LOVE this application and look forward to using it more!

Used to be stable app which I very much liked but the newest version is very crash prone. Can’t perform complex edits with complete crash.