tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31759972268619737042012-01-17T03:56:16.838-06:00The semi-official blog of Bibble Labs. Showcasing the Bibble community and how to use the Bibble 5 photography workflow application.Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413627170875883856noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-52349710389225784922011-12-22T13:32:00.000-06:002011-12-22T13:32:58.379-06:00

Hi Folks... Well, it might have seemed a bit quiet around the forums and here in the blog, but that didn't mean we were slacking off.  Quite the contrary.  We've just posted the final version of Bibble 5.2.3  - and it includes a host of great improvements: 16 New Camera RAW formats Some exciting new cameras have hit the shelves in the last couple months, and we're thrilled to be able to add

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-12058552224203504892011-09-20T08:54:00.008-05:002011-09-25T06:38:10.789-05:00

The 5.2.3 release candidate that was just published contains a nice hidden feature that I and many other users have been missing for a long time: Custom tool tabs.So why is this a hidden feature, shouldn't this be featured quite prominently?Looks like our friends from the lab did not have the time to code a nice userinterface for it, therefore it is currently a bit of a hidden feature.So instead

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There are a lot of cool plugins for Bibble 5 available now, but we get a fair number of questions about how to use them, get them, and what they are for. So, I'm going to walk - slowly - through a couple of my new favorites here. The plugins I'm going to be dealing with are zFrame and zShadow. These are used to add frames and shadows around your images. AND, they can be used together to add

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-23755975520831843052011-03-29T13:00:00.002-05:002011-03-29T15:09:52.393-05:00

Earlier this year, two long-time Bibble experts published the first really detailed ebook focused on optimizing your digital workflow with Bibble 5. Andreas F. X. Siegert and Marco Frissen have been using Bibble for years and years, and are both quite accomplished photographers, authors and educators. You can see a sample of Andreas' work here, and Marco's here, but here are a coupe of my

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-70826249846744964082010-12-20T11:04:00.000-06:002010-12-20T11:04:06.157-06:00

This has been a pretty amazing year. We launched Bibble 5.0 almost exactly one year ago, added Perfectly Clear and Heal & Clone in version 5.1 in June, and are on the verge of releasing 5.2 with a whole host of new features and improvements. We've added no fewer than 60 RAW file formats since 5.0 launched, most of these in smaller releases between the "big" 5.x releases, and built and released

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-20707021464751067482010-11-22T10:38:00.000-06:002010-11-22T10:38:55.725-06:00

Hi Guys, Continuing from my earlier post, here's another set of features and updates we're working on for Bibble 5.2. Copy Sets Copy Sets Preferences Tab Copy Sets can be a huge time-saver once you've figured out how to use them. The idea is to assign a hotkey, perhaps something like CTRL+1, to a group of settings, perhaps like Keywords, Ratings, Labels, and Tags. Then each time you press

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-63388082003838389662010-11-01T16:19:00.006-05:002010-11-01T16:36:22.678-05:00

Hi Guys,It's been a little while since our last post here, mainly because we've been hard at work on Bibble 5.2 and want to keep focused on that. But, I'd like to take a moment and share some of the exciting stuff we've been building into 5.2 just to get ya'll, well, excited.Respect the Transform!The one thing in previous versions of Bibble 5 that was editing-order dependent was creating regions

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-84401611885453275952010-09-02T13:47:00.001-05:002010-09-02T13:48:12.592-05:00

We're happy to announce that Bibble 5.1.1 is now available. This release is primarily a camera support update to add support for the new cameras announced by Sony - the A33, A55 and A560. Also included is lens detection support for Sony and Panasonic cameras. Here are the finer details: Added support for Sony a33, a55, a55V, a560. Added support for Panasonic FZ40, FZ45, FZ100. Added preliminary

Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413627170875883856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-19222187270866639472010-08-24T15:37:00.009-05:002010-08-31T12:41:06.090-05:00

Hi Folks,Well, I'm happy to announce that Kevin Vandivier and Jeff Cicolani and just opened the doors to the BIBBLE BASICS workshop.Jeff Cicolani spent quite a bit of time over here at the Labs, getting to know the ins and outs of Bibble 5 even better than he knew it before. It was really interesting for me to work with Kevin and Jeff in getting this put together, and I'm really excited about

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-38013773745956037572010-08-09T14:51:00.010-05:002010-08-09T15:56:54.859-05:00

As Bibble has grown in popularity over the years, we've had more and more customers wanting more and different learning options about our products. When Bibble 5 launched, we started out with a small set of tutorial videos, the on-line and PDF User Manual, FAQ's and of course our forums. But we've never had in-person training classes or dedicated, online workshops that will walk new users

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-55881237460404272872010-06-17T15:05:00.004-05:002010-06-17T15:12:55.542-05:00

Here's a very useful trick that I've just started using. The idea is to use Dropbox to make sure plugins that you install on one computer auto-magically get installed on all machines that you use for Bibble.First, a bit of background: Dropbox allows you to sync files and folders across several machines by storing a copy of items you want to sync in "the cloud". So, by sharing your "

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-83497479583442387942010-05-21T16:24:00.008-05:002010-05-26T19:42:23.873-05:00

Here's a quick look at what will be my starting point for our next official tutorial video for Bibble 5. It shows Bibble 5.1's new Heal & Clone tools in several different forms. Heal small specs to quickly remove dust or a wayward bird in the sky, clone out distracting elements, sensor dust, unwanted people from your images, and more. Take a quick look:This is a bit longer that the final video

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-60640799584853789602010-05-14T07:56:00.003-05:002010-05-14T08:21:27.881-05:00

If you are using a more or less current computer chances are pretty high that Bibble is waiting for you most of the time and not the other way round. While one could drink unhealthy amounts of coffee or your favorite Austrian energy drink to speed up yourself, this might not the best idea on the long run.In computer games you might collect power-ups, potions, health-packs or build your abilities

gruberndhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259663780781811993noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-88340906323748909682010-05-11T17:39:00.003-05:002010-05-11T17:55:34.547-05:00

Come see Bibble 5.1 in action at Austin Photo Expo this weekend in our home town, Austin, Tx. We'll be having live demonstrations of the newest features in Bibble 5, including Perfectly Clear, and Healing and Cloning as well as general workflow demonstrations with Bibble 5.I'm be hosting a few seminars on both Saturday and Sunday, and will be available for Q&A's both in our booth and in the

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-25706587429512860342010-04-21T23:33:00.009-05:002010-04-22T00:11:06.145-05:00

As mentioned earlier on our Twitter feed, today we got our hands on the first Bibble 5 boxes to be printed. Here are a few pictures of the new boxes. They’re more compact and have a much cleaner design than the Bibble 4 boxes did and I think they really turned out great. I’ve uploaded larger versions to my Flickr stream. Cheers

Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413627170875883856noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-47756605259991995592010-04-09T10:12:00.011-05:002010-04-09T11:32:59.268-05:00

We've been hard at work on version 5.1, and one of the headline features we're going to be including in this (free) update is Perfectly Clear - the one-touch image optimization tool from our friends at Athentech. They have a great page explaining the image science behind their unique correction algorithms, so instead of going into that, let's just take a look at some before/after examples using

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-60258173398182540222010-04-05T11:09:00.003-05:002010-04-05T13:21:03.313-05:00

This weekend, we updated bits and pieces of our webpages, and added a new and much-needed Plugin Directory.The directory (part of which is shown to the right) allows you to find the amazing work being done by the folks out there, creating cool new image adjustment tools for Bibble 5.The directory allows you to sort by popularity, recent updates or with the newest plugins shown first. It also

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-39223432063075240422010-03-22T06:30:00.003-05:002010-04-09T11:22:11.775-05:00

Here's a quick teaser for one of the features coming in Bibble 5.1 - Cloning. We probably won't be answering any questions just yet and the UI may change. So for now just enjoy the eye candy.Cloning ScreenshotAnd here's the end result:JoshclopsEnjoy!

Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413627170875883856noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-14350938542552694222010-03-22T05:38:00.004-05:002010-03-23T03:49:37.358-05:00

This is the first of a (hopefully long) series of short interviews with Bibble Plugin developers. We will start with Roger Barnes (Mind Socket on the Bibble forums). His website can be found here. Please do tell us a bit about yourself I live in Australia, am 30 years old and am a Java applications developer by trade. I've been around computers my whole life, and have been interested in

Marcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11071179122316127874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-11497313670733168722010-03-19T19:59:00.001-05:002010-03-19T20:03:04.292-05:00

When I got my D300, the higher sensitivity (compared to the D200) was really nice for available light work and concert shots. But when I started pixel peeping, I quickly realized the noise characteristics for the new CMOS sensor led to fine pixel dust which is hard to get rid of with Noise Ninja. If I used enough noise reduction to get rid of the pixel dust, the image became pretty mushy. So my

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One of the unique features of Bibble is our support of non-destructive image processing plugins. These aren’t Lightroom “plugins” which are really just external applications that are launched by Lightroom. I don’t know how anyone gets away with calling that a plugin. Nor are these Aperture plugins, which require the image to be rendered to an internal TIFF and then edited. Although Aperture

Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413627170875883856noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-89654457275625895752010-03-11T10:40:00.006-06:002010-03-12T08:55:34.224-06:00

Thanks to Dave, for setting this blog up! We've been really busy around here, as we usually are, but I'd like to take a quick moment to provide a quick update on the latest happenings around the Labs...Bibble 5.0.3 will be released within the hour to our forums, which adds support for Canon's new 550D (also known as the EOS Rebel T2i or Kiss X4) and Olympus's new E-PL1. Both of these are very

Jeff Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13042983502723532127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175997226861973704.post-34435065603142098362010-03-10T17:11:00.000-06:002010-03-10T17:26:38.608-06:00

I’d just like to welcome everyone to the semi-official Bibble Blog. Why is it “semi-official” you ask? Well, mainly because not everything that you see here will be coming directly from us at Bibble Labs. We’ve enlisted some of our power users that are active in the community to help out with things here. So you’ll be hearing from both us at the labs about the things that we’re doing (as we have

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