Bibble Pro 4.9 (Win/Mac/Linux)

List Price: $159.99 Discount Price: Too low to display

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!

Customer Reviews:

To speed through your RAW conversions Bibble is the tool! [Posted on 2008-03-17]
Bibble Pro 4.9 (Win/Mac/Linux)

I shoot only Raw format as a matter of choice. I prefer the flexibility that raw gives me. When I cover the types of events I like to photograph I will end up with 300 to 400 images.

So I need several things from my conversion software: ease of use, speed, dependability and flexibility. Bibble provides me with all of these things.

I have used Bibble Lite for a number of years and recently switched over to the Pro version. I upgraded to Pro for the additional color management and Noise Ninja capabilities.

Some will suggest that the interface needs to be updated and most likely will be in the next version. But I have used Bibble for several years so it doesn't bother me. I open my images, make basic changes to one image and once I am satisfied with it I apply those same changes to all the images. I then review every photo to prioritize them and tweak those that need it.

I enjoy the flexibility that the plug-ins give me to adjust an image over and above the normal settings. I can do most everything I need to do to an image from with Bibble and that includes opening an image in Photoshop Elements to deal with more serious problems.

If I ever figure out a way for Bibble to handle my back up processes I will have a complete workflow.

Bibble Pro [Posted on 2008-04-07]
Good..but the same as Bibble Light, unless you are batch processing. With a hefty additional price tag

Tethering ? [Posted on 2008-05-06]
I purchased Bibble Pro in hopes it would make taking product shots for our mail order business a little easier. I was mainly interested in the tethering option. I found the provided instruction manual lacks all information on tethering and the tutorials, although helpful did not cover this ether.
With the help of online fourms and a few hours of dabbling I was able to get it to work. It's not hard to do once you get the needed help. It seems to me the manual should have addressed tethering, that would have been helpful.

Over all I like the program and would recommend it for easy to use and powerful batch processing. After getting Bibble I started shooting in RAW full time because it's easy to view, correct, and convert to jpg, tiff , ect...
After a couple of product shot sessions I'm finding I do save time with Bibble Pro tethered to my Nikon D80, I wouldn't give it up. The basic tools are easy to use and work well.

Gret Product But Needs An Update To Accept TIF Files As Input [Posted on 2008-08-08]
I use Nikon Capture NX to 1.34 AUTOMATICALLY remove chromatic abberation from from the raw Nikon .nef files. They are saved as 16 bit TIF files.
However Bibble Pro 4 cannot read TIF files, but ironically it can save as TIF files.
I'm still buying this program shortly as Bibble 5 is expected to be able to read 16 bit TIF files, and will be a free upgrade. Bibble 5 will cost more too.
I love its AUTOMATED Perfectly Clear feature and its tight integration to Noise Ninja - all run in batch mode. This work flow produces the best picture quality with the least fuss.

nice program, abominable customer service [Posted on 2008-09-19]
I love the program. It makes photoshop almost unnecessary for a lot of my photos and it's very fast because you don't have to keep opening and saving. It's easy to copy settings from one photo to another. HOWEVER, I cannot get any minor problems addressed by the company. I waited 10 days for them to respond to an email about an installation issue, and they only responded because I threatened to start writing reviews. I am now waiting 4 days for a followup. I can't get into their forums because they won't recognize me as a customer so I can't get advice that way. I also find the interface confusing but I'm hoping they fix that in version 5. In the meantime, unless you're confident you can figure anything out on your own, BEWARE.

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