For photographers looking at more affordable Photoshop Lightroom alternatives, CameraBag Photo 2020 and CameraBag Pro 2020 are now available for Mac and Windows at only $30 and $50, respectively. A week-long free trial is being offered.

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For fast edits and previews of changes, there are more than 200 adjustable presets. A number of these presets are designed specifically for portrait and wedding photography, including newer options like Portrait Curves, Gentle Focus, Portrait Shadows Green and Freckles BW.

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Presets and adjustments can be batch processed across large sets of photos. Videos can also be batch processed to the same “looks.” CameraBag Pro 2020 builds on CameraBag Photo 2020, giving the exact same controls and presets for altering movie files.

CameraBag Pro 2020 also has the ability to load video LUTs to check and perform professional color grading possibilities for video.

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Ideal for wedding and event photographers, the software also has easy watermarking for multiple files, unlike Photoshop. With RAW support, there are also image editing tools like tone curves and drag-and-drop reordering and layering of adjustments. 

Alongside filtered black-and-white conversions and advanced grain controls, a few other professional modes include Coloring Curve, Hue Exposure and Hue Saturation. A Spot Heal tool has been added in this latest update.

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With included updates for a year, the programs are single-purchase, and unlike Photoshop and Lightroom, they are non-subscription. The publisher, Nevercenter, claims that with a few exceptions the software can perform most of the same functions as Lightroom.

CameraBag Pro omits image library management as a feature, as one example, which they say helps the software to stay much leaner than the competing software.

With included updates for a year, the programs are a single puchase and unlike Lightroom and Photoshop, which start at $9.99 a month, they are non-subscription.

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