Bibble Pro 4.9 (Win/Mac/Linux)

by Bibble Digital Imaging Distributing (Consignment)

Product Features

• RAW Speed, RAW Power, RAW Quality
• User can adjust White balance, Exposure, Sharpening, Fill Light, Highlight Recovery
• Includes Powerful Batch Processing, RAW Optimized Printing, Tethered Shooting, IPTC Metadata support
• The product is fully multithreaded for speed and includes the gold standard of Noise reduction technology Noise Ninja©
• Fastest fully featured RAW converter avaibla today. Will convert 300 16Mb RAW files to jpegs in less than 60 minutes!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000F7VRIC
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,955 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

What is RAW? Simply put a RAW file contains all the data captured by your camera at the time the shutter was released. Using RAW files and Bibble enables you to achieve the highest quality final images from your camera. Like an exposed but undeveloped film RAW files need to be processed (developed) Processing RAW files in Bibble gains the greatest degree of creative control allowing adjustments of the image including white balance, exposure, sharpening and Noise Reduction at very high speeds. Bibble now contains the gold standard of Noise reduction technology Noise Ninja. Bibble also contains an inclusive plug in for Adobe Photoshop 7.0 forward as well as Adobe Photoshop Elements. The product is available in three operating systems Mac, PC and Linux.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works fast and well, August 4, 2006

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T. J. Barnes (Los Gatos, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bibble Pro 4.9 (Win/Mac/Linux) (CD-ROM)

I just came back from a trip to Africa with 1300 RAW images taken with my Nikon D50 and D200 cameras. After doing a preliminary sort, I was able to clean up and crop 450 in a couple of evenings. Several great things about Bibble Pro:

1. It's easy to work with a folder full of images
2. It's easy to apply the same settings to multiple images
3. You can output many images in a given format (TIFF, JPEG) in a single background batch task
4. The "Perfectly Clear" optimizer does a good job for probably 75% of images - the others need more careful tweaking

The 4.8.1 release seems reasonably stable - it did crash once, but I didn't lose any data.

The bottom line for me is that I get much better results from Bibble Pro than I do from Adobe Camera Raw, and in much less time. For most images, I can do all required editing in Bibble Pro at 16 bit depth - this is a major contributor to my overall productivity.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great RAW format photo processing software package, December 6, 2006

By 

Sir Force (Maryland USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bibble Pro 4.9 (Win/Mac/Linux) (CD-ROM)

I just started shooting indoor sports and switch to use RAW mode in order to give me more control over poor lighting conditions during post processing photo's from my Nikon D80 camera using a F2.8 70-200 VR Nikon Lense.

My first impression is WOW! What a timesaver. The program does not modify the original RAW output but creates a second file with a new extension with the changes to apply. Adjusting using Perfectly Clear and Noise Ninja right out of the box work extremely well for 75% of the photos with some additional exposure/color tweaking that is simple to do for the rest. It is them simple to archive the photo's along with the bibble files to DVD for backup purposes and not lose any of the RAW data or changes made for future use.

After cropping and/or tweaking the photos, exporting to various formats such as a contact sheet, save for web or full size jpeg or tiff output can be accomplished using backgroud batch mode.

Working with folders of images and tagging them with ratings or categories is very intuitive. Applying settings to one or more files is a quick process.

Like the other user stated I did have a couple of program crashes as well but never lost any data. I am using the latest v4.9 at the present time.

Being new to using RAW files and having also attempted to use Adobe Camera RAW as well as Nikon Capture NX, Bibble Pro seems to be the best of all three software packages i've tried hands down. I would definately purchase this software again.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Biible Labs Pro : An Awesome tool for cross platform Digital Image Workflow!, May 3, 2007

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Wing Wong "Winged Power Photography" (Sunnyvale, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bibble Pro 4.9 (Win/Mac/Linux) (CD-ROM)

Been using Bibble Lab Pro for about a year and a half now and being able to run it in Windows, Mac, and Linux environments is a great boon, since I often have to swap system OS(s). Not having to relearn another interface is awesome and a great time saver.

The Bibble Labs interface caches and generates previews, so your browsing of images to cull/edit is greatly sped up, resulting in less time in front of the computer and more time selling and/or shooting.

I use this on a Linux and Mac system and find it to be very flexible. The best part? The bibble configuration files are cross-platform, so I can just copy folders between systems and work from where I left off with the previous system.

Great software at a great price!

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