Dear Friends of CameraBag,

CameraBag Pro for Windows has exited beta and is now officially released!

CameraBag Pro (formerly called CameraBag Cinema) includes all of the great photo editing capabilities of CameraBag Photo but also supports recoloring and filtering videos, and includes additional motion film emulation presets plus the ability to import and export filter LUTs. Until now CameraBag Pro has only been available for Mac OS—now officially released on Windows, you can download it from here: Download CameraBag Pro

We’ve also created a new unified site to show CameraBag Photo and CameraBag Pro side-by-side and help better show the similarities and differences between the two—take a look at https://nevercenter.com/camerabag.

All license codes for CameraBag Pro and CameraBag Photo purchased via nevercenter.com work on both Mac and PC—and this includes past purchases, so if you currently have a CameraBag Pro (or formerly CameraBag Cinema) license code, you will automatically now be able to use it on both operating systems.

As always, we love to hear from you! Show us what you're creating, give us feedback, and join the conversation by following @nevercenter on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Best,
Nevercenter

 

Dear Friends of CameraBag,

Great news: CameraBag Cinema has been renamed to CameraBag Pro, and is now available for the first time on Windows as a free public beta!

CameraBag Pro (formerly Cinema) is the advanced version of CameraBag Photo and supports both photo and video editing; until now it has only been available on Mac. A Windows version with these advanced video tools has been our most-requested feature, and we're excited for everyone to try it out! Go ahead and download the free Windows beta from here: http://nevercenter.com/camerabag/pro

​Once you've tried it, we'd love to hear how it's working for you! Please send any/all beta feedback to beta@nevercenter.com, remember to include your system details and—if you report a bug—any steps necessary to reproduce it.

All license codes for CameraBag Cinema (now CameraBag Pro) purchased via nevercenter.com will work on both Mac and PC—and this includes past purchases, so if you currently have a CameraBag Cinema license code, you will automatically be upgraded for free and be able to use it on both operating systems.

As always, we love to hear from you! Show us what you're creating, give us feedback, and join the conversation by following @nevercenter on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Best,
Nevercenter

 

Just a quick note about two new… well one new and one old-new… features coming to the desktop versions of CameraBag Photo and CameraBag Cinema.



First up: the ability to zoom in and out beyond the constraints previously imposed in CameraBag. Before, the furthest you could zoom in was to a 1:1 pixel ratio, i.e. 100%, so each pixel in the image corresponded exactly to one pixel on the screen. However, sometimes you want to go further in, say, to be able to easily use the pixel inspector to investigate the color value of a single pixel. So now you can zoom in as much as you want. And whereas before the furthest you could zoom out was to where the image would fill the window, now you can keep zooming out until it gets tiny in the window. Sometimes seeing something smaller makes it easier to get a sense of the whole image.



Next up: users of CameraBag 2 will remember there was an adjustment that would add a faux light leak to your image, but we removed it from CameraBag Photo 3, fearing that it was too much of a cheesy over-filtered effect. However, we missed it. And besides that CameraBag’s light leaks aren’t based on a set of predefined images - instead they’re generated procedurally, so by changing the “remix” value you can always generate a new and unique light leak, with variations in shape, color, and placement. Which makes your photos using them end up feeling way less cheesy than other software’s faux light leaks.

Coming very soon in version 3.1 of CameraBag Photo and CameraBag Cinema!

-Tom

• The next and previous buttons are waaaay too small to try to hit while driving. They should be giant, and on the screen at all times.
• Takes way too many button presses to do the things I most want to do, like start a playlist playing or reshuffle the queue. Trying to find the suffle button can feel like taking crazy pills.
• It’s pretty ugly - mostly just white backgrounds and red text, especially bad when driving at night.
• Not very easy to tell what’s currently playing, again especially if you’re driving.

• Giant next and previous buttons, especially easy to hit while driving. It’s a safety issue in addition to a cool visual.
• The title of the song currently playing is also giant, because it looks cool and is easier to read. Album art is the worst thing to have happened to music player interfaces, in my opinion.
• The next and previous buttons have a fun little animation that I still enjoy just staring at while songs play - sort of a reel-to-reel thing going on.
• You’re always basically two taps away from loading a new playlist, and all the important buttons and info are on the screen at all times (or, if you’re choosing something like an artist’s songs, you’re just one dismiss button away). The navigation in extremely straightforward.
• We’ve designed several color schemes that are pretty fun to use in different situations. I’m open to suggestions about additional color schemes. You can see most of the existing ones in the video.