The pop­u­lar app for the iPhone cam­era is avail­able for the Mac. It retains the same sets of fil­ters & usabil­ity, with an extra bonus of mul­ti­ple fil­ters capa­bil­ity and some­thing called Reprocess, some­thing like a refresh but­ton that does magic, every click will give you a dif­fer­ent look, which is great to see what this app can offer to your image when you got stuck; add more filter(s) to your image and even more surprises!

On a quick test, I was able to drag my Canon RAW (.cr2) files to the app, it’s smart enough to detect the embed­ded jpeg with­out any unnec­es­sary dialog/warning, and I was toy­ing the image with the app’s fil­ters set with a not-so-polished yet usable & straight­for­ward interface.

click to see the processed photo

CameraBag might be just the first of a new gen­er­a­tion of imag­ing apps to grace the desk­top space; one that does just one thing and deliv­er­ing it with an upper­cut instead of mul­ti­ple & tir­ing jabs; the desk­top imag­ing space has been any­thing but bloated, com­pli­cated & over­priced, the arrival of such app will open up some new hori­zon of what can be done and how to do it simple.

I’ve been load­ing up my ‘seri­ous pho­tographs’ to my iPhone and see what can be done with the league of apps I have equipped myself with, the result was aston­ish­ing, way beyond imag­i­na­tion, my iPhone is now my visu­al­iz­ing tool, draw­ing board & ‘polaroid’ cam­era to my work, it fills in the gap between the con­cept and the final result.

One more thing that can be done is trans­form­ing this app as a plug-in, this will be my offi­cial request to you devel­op­ers, you’ll be tap­ping some loyal, bril­liant & ded­i­cated cre­ative crowd, and I’ll be the first to line up shall that day come.

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