Bibble Professional Changelog

What's new in Bibble Professional 5.2.3

Dec 27, 2011

New Camera RAW formats:
Olympus E-P3, E-PL3, E-PM1, XZ-1
Panasonic G3, GF3
Nikon D5100, V1, J1, P7100
Leica D-LUX5, V-LUX2
Sony NEX-5n, A-77, A-65, NEX-7
Other Changes:
Open in External Editor command
click the RGB status color well for options
0001579: introduce three colors for Keywords panel
Added a Blacks slider for adjusting the Black Point
Many crashes have been fixed
Memory management and leaks resolved

New in Bibble Professional 5.2.2 (Mar 30, 2011)

New in Bibble Professional 5.2.1 (Feb 18, 2011)

New in Bibble Professional 5.2.0 RC1 (Dec 21, 2010)

Added - Support for Nikon D3100, D7000, P7000
Added - Support for Canon S95, G12
Added - Support for Pentax K-5,K-r
Added - Support for Panasonic LX5, GH2, GF2
Added - Support for Olympus E-5
Added - Support for Ricoh GXR P10
Added - PENTAX-F 70-210mm f/4-5.6 smc by user yves77
Added - Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm 1:2.8 Pancake Lens
Added - Crop Preferences panel to add/edit Crop Presets, transparency and grid options
Added - Copy Sets to assign hotkeys to copy specific image settings
Added - Default Settings preference panel lists default settings and their contents
Added - Support for importing metadata from Bibble 4 "bib" files
Added - Checkbox for sharpening on basic panel
Added - Polish 'Community Translation'
Added - Press the spacebar to temporarily switch to the pan cursor
Added - Better logic to alt-click & the tag/reject badge (first alt-click always rejects)
Added - New version command selects the new version
Added - Delete version command selects the master
Added - Clicking anywhere on hidden panel opens panel
Added - Remember the 'reset job sequence' checkbox setting on batch output
Added - Ability to see what settings a Preset contains
Added - Ability to apply Presets during Import
Added - Modifier-key to temporarily unlock pan-tool in MIV
Added - Preference to show only high-quality previews steps when editing
Resolved - White balance issue with certain Pentax RAW files
Resolved - Improved Canon 7D color rendering and shadow noise
Resolved - How & when default files (batches, presets, etc) are copied to a user's folder, with a reset button to update all files
Resolved - Slideshow not showing proper crop location
Resolved - Issue with Contrast adjustment creating incorrect colors
Resolved - IPTC:SupplementalCategory is not written to output
Resolved - Cropped area not represented in histogram or curves view
Resolved - Send to batch should be available on the thumbnail context menu
Resolved - Copy batch on version does not copy
Resolved - Copy/pasting lens type - lens correction not applied
Resolved - Several issues with Copy Batches failing to copy all images or to name the new images improperly
Improved - Significant changes to the Plugin SDK to allow better handling of image geometry transformations
Resolved - 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S DX VR Zoom II calibration fixed

New in Bibble Professional 5.0.1 (Feb 25, 2010)

New in Bibble Professional 5.0 (Feb 25, 2010)

Bibble 5 Pro excels in the areas that matter most to today's photographers, including flexible tools for organizing and managing digital photographs, the most complete selective editing tools offered in a photographic workflow application, and RAW conversion and editing speed up to 88 times as fast as other leading applications.
Real Power, Really Fast
Bibble 5 Pro includes a totally new, completely multi-threaded image processing engine, allowing it to process images faster than anything else. Efficient enough to be perfectly usable on netbooks and older computers, yet powerful enough to take full advantage of 4, 8, 16 or even more CPU's, Bibble 5 Pro is designed to fully utilize all the computing power available to it. On high-end computers, Bibble 5 Pro is up to 88 times faster in processing and exporting images than other leading applications, while on single CPU computers and more modest machines, Bibble 5 Pro can still be 2 to 8 times faster. "With dual core processors now being replaced with four-core processors, and with 6- an 8- and higher core count processors on the horizon," says Eric Hyman, founder and owner of Bibble Labs, "it's clear that utilizing the full power of those additional CPU's is the key to true workflow performance."
Total Editing Power and Freedom: Unrestrained Selective Editing
Bibble 5 Pro's Selective Editing framework allows its image editing tools to operate on the complete image or a limited portion of an image, fully integrated into a totally non-destructive workflow. "The ability to apply just about every tool Bibble 5 offers within freeform curves or brushed regions opens up amazing editing possibilities" says Jeff Stephens, President of Bibble Labs. "This exemplifies our commitment to building the most flexible, most powerful, and most widely available photographic workflow application." Essentially any image adjustment tool offered in Bibble 5 Pro - including 3rd Party Plug-ins - may be applied selectively to key portions of images, allowing an unparalleled level of creative control: quickly apply multiple white-balance settings to fix difficult or mixed lighting situations, apply noise reduction only to the deepest shadows, sharpen only key points of interest, the possibilities are endless.
Bibble Labs continues to offer the industry's only RAW-level plug-in API, allowing 3rd Party developers to write image editing tools that can access decoded RAW files, TIFF's and JPEG's directly within Bibble 5's image editing pipeline. With Bibble 5 Pro's plug-in API, every plug-in built for Bibble 5 is also open to the full power of Selective Editing, adjustment Presets, edit History and all of Bibble 5 Pro's other workflow advantages.
Asset Management: Innovative, Powerful and Flexible
Importing images into catalogs allows Bibble 5 to summarize information about the photos in that catalog which enables searching or browsing by a wide range of metadata. Such tools are indispensable when working with a large body of images; yet it is the optional nature of Bibble 5 Pro's Cataloging system that makes it uniquely powerful. "Catalogs and metadata searching and browsing are critical when working with tens of thousands of images or more" says Stephens. "But hand me a memory card with a dozen photos while I'm working in Bibble 5 - that's when its flexibility really starts to shine." Bibble 5 Pro allows the photographer to quickly switch to 'File System' mode, allowing them to just click on the folder where these few images are stored and go to work on them right away. Those images are not imported into the catalog, but all Bibble 5's other tools and capabilities can be applied.
Multiple Catalogs can be open at once, while browsing or searching across all open catalogs, which provide immense storage and organizational flexibility. Unique and powerful "Refine" browsing allows photographers to gradually narrow their photographic collection down to show only the images that are necessary at that moment. Bibble 5 Pro is the only photographic workflow application to provide this level of flexibility and choice in the critical decisions that each photographer faces regarding cataloging and asset management.
Solid Platform For Future Advancements
"We continue to be committed to bringing value to our customers after they purchase our products," says Stephens, "and we already have some exciting things in store for later versions of Bibble 5." Bibble 4 was upgraded and enhanced with major features twelve times over several years, adding major new components release after release. Bibble 5 will carry on this tradition, with the first free update planned in Q1 2010.

New in Bibble Professional 4.8 (Jun 25, 2006)

This free upgrade is available to existing Bibble 4 license holders, and represents the third such major upgrade of 2006. New features in this release include a redesigned and more powerful Lens Correction tool enabling correction of barrel and pin-cushion distortion, as well as chromatic aberration and vignetting.
A new plugin is also distributed with the application to allow robust Black and White conversion, including an innovative Spot Color feature. �With this plugin, users can create Black and White images quickly, controlling which color channels affect the B&W value, with much more granularity than simple desaturation. This plugin also works in conjunction with our powerful color manipulation tools, providing complete control over the B&W conversion process,� says Eric Hyman, president and CEO of Bibble Labs. �Further, our novel Spot Color feature within the plugin allows for creative effects not available in any other RAW Workflow tool.�
Continuing Bibble Labs� trend of broad camera support, the 4.8 update adds support for additional cameras, including the Fujifilm S3 Pro and Panasonic LX1, and includes Tethered Shooting support for Fujifilm S2 Pro and S3 Pro cameras (on Windows only).
Bibble was one of the first RAW Workflow tools to offer a native Intel Mac package, and now 4.8 is available as a Mac Universal Binary. Further optimization for Intel Mac�s results in even faster conversion times for these platforms, and better memory management offers performance enhancements to Windows, Mac, and Linux users.
Bibble Labs is committed to its customers, and 4.8 includes many additions and changes requested by its growing userbase. �We believe in building relationships with our customers, and listen closely to what they have to say. The direction of 4.8 was greatly influenced by our customers, as they - more that anyone - know what is needed to make the best RAW Workflow tool,� says Hyman. �Full Unicode support in IPTC fields is a great example of this, as well as constant improvements of image quality and conversion speed. We have a history of making these upgrades available as quickly as possible, at no cost to current customers."