Welcome! You might want to begin by taking a look at the Learn tab and going through the "10 Things to Try First" list. Then come back here for more details.

Double-click to open the CameraBag application, which should be located in your applications or programs folder or wherever you saved it on installation.

To open a photo, drag an image into CameraBag or go to "File > Open" (Hotkey "O") and select the image you want.

Once you have an image open, you can browse to the previous and next images in that folder/directory by clicking on the left and right arrow keys, respectively.

Images can be rotated at 90 degree intervals to the left or right using "Edit > Rotate Left" and "Edit > Rotate Right", or simply pressing the L and R keys.

• Styles are carefully-crafted one-click looks for your images. Each has a built in "Remix" slider which lets you adjust within the theme.
  
• Adjust is where you'll find the more "traditional" photo editing tools, as well as a few new innovative ones. Whether you want to crop, adjust the highlights, or add a vignette, you will find it here.
  
• Borders come in two kinds: Dynamic and Image. Dynamic borders hug your photo's dimensions and can be adjusted dynamically by you. Image borders are inspired by classic film photography, and your photo will be cropped to fit inside them.
  
• Favorites can be any series of Styles, adjustments, and borders, combined and customized by you. We've included a few to get you started, but this is a place to make CameraBag your own. Click the "Add Current" button to save the current contents of the bottom tray to your Favorites list.
  
• Quicklooks is where you can get a quick preview of all of the options for each tab. Click on the button for a screen filled with visual options.

Mouse over any effect in one of the tabs to see a preview of that effect. You will see a live preview of what that effect will do to your image, as well as a short text explanation of the effect.

Tip: Tired of the Hover Previews? You can disable them by going to "View" and unchecking "Show Hover Previews".

When you find the effect you want, click on it. It will be applied to your image, and you will see sliders over the image to adjust that effect just how you like it. Clicking on an Adjust effect adds it to any other effects you have selected. Clicking on a Border effect always replaces the previous border tile you had selected.

Tip: Some effects (Styles and Favorites) have plus symbols on part of their effect buttons. If you click on the plus part, that effect will be added to the end of your current tray, like the Adjust effects. If you click on the named part, that effect will replace all other tiles you have in your tray.

As you apply styles, adjustments, borders, and favorites from the menus on the right, each will appear as a separate tile in the tray. Simply select tiles to edit each effect further. You can also rearrange the order, delete tiles, etc. This active history approach ensures you can always see and edit everything that's affecting your photo.

The set of contents in the tray is the current "filter" being applied to your image.

Tip: The icons in the right and left corners of the tiles are very useful! Click on the small "x" to delete a tile. Click on the Power Button icon (right) to turn an effect on and off.

These icons are easy ways to change your editing space. Click on the Down/Up Arrow icon (far left) to show or hide the tray with the effect tiles. Click on the Power Button icon to turn all of the effects in the tray on and off. Click on the X icon to delete the tiles in the tray--once to delete the pure image editing tiles, then again to delete the more utilitarian tiles, such as cropping, borders, and output size.

Saving is easy in CameraBag. Just click on "File > Save As" or use the hotkey "S" ("Cmd/Ctrl + S", or "Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + S" also work). Unless you have already set an output size for your photo, you will get a popup asking what size you would like your saved photo to be. Use the original values (given) or enter in new ones, then click to continue. You will then be able to specify where you would like your edited photo to be saved, as well as what you would like it to be called.

Note: With quality set to 100, only TIFF and PNG are available as saving formats. If you change the quality to 99 then JPG will again be an option. Since JPG is inherently a compressed format, it isn't able to support a true 100% quality save, which is why it is not available. A quality setting of 99 will give you a JPG with maximum quality preserved.

As well as saving individual photos, CameraBag has the ability to apply edits to an entire folders of images at once. This is called Batch Processing.

To batch process a folder, open one image from that folder in CameraBag. Then apply the effects you want, and select "File > Batch Process Folder..." (or use hotkey "Cmd/Ctrl + B"). A dialogue will pop up asking you what (if any) postfix you would like appended to the file name of the saved images. Type one in (or use none) and click Next.

You will then be taken to a Save dialogue to choose where you would like the processed batch of photos saved to. Pick a folder, click Choose, and you're done! Remember that if you did NOT choose a postfix, you should not save into the original image folder unless you want your original photos to be replaced with the edited versions.

Tip: A useful tool for Batch Processing is the Output Size tile, found under the Adjust tab (at the bottom). Here, you can preset the Width, Height, or Maximum Side length for all of the images you will save out during the batch process.

• Cropping and Straightening can be done using the "Crop/Straighten" tile, found in the Adjust tab. Use the sliders or grab the edge of the crop to get your image just right. (If you would like to rotate your image 90 degrees, please use the L and R keys.)
• Resizing is done either at the time of saving (with a pop-up dialogue) or through the Output Size tile, also found in the Adjust tab. Note: Resizing for Batch Processing must be done through the Output Size tile.

CameraBag has built-in features to get you started. Mousing over any effect will popup a preview window with text explaining what that text does. In the Help menu you will find access to additional help resources, including our YouTube Channel Playlist.

CameraBag licenses purchased from the Mac App Store are Mac-only licenses. Please note that Apple provides the copy protection for these licenses and no registration code will be sent.

All Mac App Store billing/registration questions should be directed to Apple Support.

CameraBag can be purchased via PayPal or by using a major credit card.

All transactions are handled by Authorize.net, which is a respected company for internet transactions, and your information is encrypted and protected.

Once you have purchased a CameraBag license from our site, you will receive an email containing a registration code. You can unlock and register your copy of the program by running CameraBag and entering in this registration information when prompted.

The latest version of CameraBag is always available from our Download page.

NOTE: Licenses purchased from the Mac App Store do not use a registration code; the licensing is handled by Apple and the program should be downloaded from the Mac App Store.

If you have purchased CameraBag from the Nevercenter website and are still waiting for your registration information, please be sure that you email is set to recieve email from support@nevercenter.com and that the email isn't in your spam folder.

Please also note that some orders must be processed manually, so they can take up to 1 business day to complete.

If you are still waiting for your registration code after this time, please contact us and let us know - we will resend your registration information to you right away.

We do not offer a free upgrade, or upgrade pricing, from CameraBag Desktop 1.x.

We do appreciate the support that CameraBag 1.x customers have shown us over the years. For this new release, we've rewritten CameraBag 2 from the ground up, but we have tried to keep the price low and we've ensured that both v1 and v2 can operate side-by-side.

However, while full-version (i.e. v1 to v2) upgrades are not free, all .x upgrades at Nevercenter remain free. This means if you purchased a v1 license, you have access to all versions 1.x. (And v2 licenses have access to all versions 2.x, etc.)

We do hope you will find the changes we've made to CameraBag 2 worth it, but if you'd like to continue using v1, we've made CameraBag Desktop 1.x along with supporting files available on our site.

- Mac: OSX 10.5 or newer, Intel CPU (Core 2 Duo or better)*
- Windows: XP SP3, Vista, or Windows 7
- 1GB RAM
- 70MB hard drive space

Licenses purchased from Nevercenter are operating-system independent, and will work on both Mac and PC.

CameraBag can open JPG, PNG, TIFF, and most RAW files. With RAW images, it uses the extra data while editing, then exports to JPG, PNG, or TIFF. On Macs, CameraBag can also open PSD files.

If you are on a Windows computer you need to have Windows XP SP 3 or better, and you may need to install a codec from your camera manufacturer to be able to open RAW files in CameraBag. You can also install the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack.

If you are on a Mac and having trouble opening RAW files, please make sure you have run Software Update and have installed the latest version of the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update.

The best way to find out if RAW files from your camera are supported is to download the free, fully-functional 30-day demo.

Note: We are using Windows and Mac native RAW support, so we can't make any promises beyond what is currently available. If you have a file type that you believe should be supported and isn't supported because of an error in CameraBag, please send us an email along with the image file(s) in question, your OS details, and a detailed description of what is happening.

There are two main reasons that filters will vary among platforms:

1. At Nevercenter we have tried to carefully cultivate the best filter sets. Sometimes that means getting rid of infrequently used or unwanted filters as well as adding new ones.
2. Occasionally we will test the release of a filter in one place before it is available elsewhere.

• If you would like to save a tray of effects for use again, you can save it to your Favorites tab:
  
  Once you have the effects you like in the bottom tray, simply go to File and choose "Add Filter to Favorites", or click on the "+" button. You will then be prompted to enter in a name for this Favorite. Click Save and you will be able to find your new Favorite filter in the Favorites tab.
  
  
• If you would like to apply the current tray of effects (or filter) to a whole folder of images, you can use the Batch Process Function:
  
  First, open one image from the desired folder in CameraBag. Then apply the effects you want, and select "File > Batch Process Folder..." (or use hotkey "Cmd/Ctrl + B"). A dialogue will pop up asking you what (if any) postfix you would like appended to the file name of the saved images. Type one in (or use none) and click Next.
  
  You will then be taken to a Save dialogue to choose where you would like the processed batch of photos saved to. Pick a folder, click Choose, and you're done! Remember that if you did NOT choose a postfix, you should not save into the original image folder unless you want your original photos to be replaced with the edited versions.

Effects appear in the bottom tray in the order that they are applied to your photo; this order reflects that behavior. For example the resizing in Output Size will always happen after all of the other effects are applied, so its location is locked at the end of the tray.

Effects that can happen in any order are represented by the draggable tiles. Order does matter when processing--try dragging them around and see what happens.

CameraBag supports editing a single photo at any given time. When a new image is selected the previous image is automatically closed. The original file will remain in its original location as well as any saved files in their selected save locations.

Reprocess is now controlled by the Remix slider. Remix in CameraBag attempts to match the natural variation at play in photography styles (represented by the filters in the Styles tab) with a range of potential outcomes. As you move the "Remix" slider the variations produced will be noticeable, but never outside the filter's scope.

Unfortunately, no. With the Favorites in CameraBag 2, we've rewritten the code and the way that the underlying image processing works, so the old filters are no longer compatible with the new program. Sorry for any confusion!

CameraBag 2 will not overwrite previous installations of CameraBag Desktop, and they can both be run on the same system without issue.

No, we do not offer a free upgrade, or upgrade pricing, from CameraBag Desktop 1.x.

We do appreciate the support that CameraBag 1.x customers have shown us over the years. For this new release, we've rewritten CameraBag 2 from the ground up, but we have tried to keep the price low and we've ensured that both v1 and v2 can operate side-by-side.

However, while full-version (i.e. v1 to v2) upgrades are not free, all .x upgrades at Nevercenter remain free. This means if you purchased a v1 license, you have access to all versions 1.x. (And v2 licenses have access to all versions 2.x, etc.)

With the release of CameraBag 2, CameraBag Desktop 1.x is no longer officially supported (we will not be making updates to the program for new operating systems, etc), but we still want to provide you with the v1 download, help files, and extra content. You can find all of that here.