One of the best things about Bibble is that fact that it truly is a one-stop shop for me. No other application is required for me and I can quickly and easily process thousands of images from RAW to final product all in this single application. I have Photoshop installed (in WINE) but it very, very rarely gets launched.
cogitech wrote:
One of the best things about Bibble is that fact that it truly is a one-stop shop for me. No other application is required for me and I can quickly and easily process thousands of images from RAW to final product all in this single application. I have Photoshop installed (in WINE) but it very, very rarely gets launched.
I do some batch processing and Portraiture plug in work in photoshop, but that's it.
How did you calibrate your screen on Linux? I couldn't find anything for that and so I'm stuck with Windows.
cogitech wrote:
I've been using BibblePro for years on my Linux workstation. I've tried other apps, on both Windows and Mac, and the feature set, speed, and quality of BibblePro always won for me. Sean's plugins just make it all the better. http://www.nexi.com/147
I agree about the interface. It needs an overhaul (and it is getting one), but I am so used to it by now that it is a complete non-issue.
ptys wrote:
How did you calibrate your screen on Linux?
Short answer: I didn't and I won't.
Long answer: My Viewsonic VX2025 8-bit panel gets me damned close on the sRGB setting and my lab takes care of the rest (for free). They say my files rarely need much work. For critical work, there is an easy and extremely effective way to correct the colour in the actual image (regardless of screen calibration): http://www.nexi.com/239
cogitech wrote:
Short answer: I didn't and I won't.
Long answer: My Viewsonic VX2025 8-bit panel gets me damned close on the sRGB setting and my lab takes care of the rest (for free). They say my files rarely need much work. For critical work, there is an easy and extremely effective way to correct the colour in the actual image (regardless of screen calibration): http://www.nexi.com/239
I was just re-reading this thread and noticed tmiller's statement "but it's not for the person who wants to "batch" everything".
One of BibblePro's strongest features is its batch processing, so I find this confusing and ultimately misleading for Mr. Mahoney.
tmiller, would you mind elaborating on what you meant here?
Mike, as an example of BibblePro's powerful batching, consider my Wedding workflow:
note: Sync time on all cameras before wedding shoot
1) Create a work queue for the "keepers" and give it a name and a hot-key
2) Sift through the directories of images and hit the hot-key for every "keeper"
3) Open the work queue, then sort thumbs by date/time (all images from all cameras will be in chronological order now)
4) CTRL-A and then apply a custom tone curve and any other "global" or "baseline" tweaks.
5) Methodically flip through the images, looking for things that need fine-tuning, like fill light, colour/tone adjustments, cropping, white balance etc. etc. More culling can be done during this stage as well. Fixing any of these things is fast and simple, and the fixes for one image can easily be copied and pasted to a whole series (terrific for WB, sensor dust, for example).
6) CTRL-A and hit a hot-key for whatever desired batch queue (web gallery, JPEG, TIFF, whatever). All these batch queues are configurable and more can be created to whatever specs you want.
cogitech wrote:
I was just re-reading this thread and noticed tmiller's statement "but it's not for the person who wants to "batch" everything".
One of BibblePro's strongest features is its batch processing, so I find this confusing and ultimately misleading for Mr. Mahoney.
tmiller, would you mind elaborating on what you meant here?
Mike, as an example of BibblePro's powerful batching, consider my Wedding workflow:
note: Sync time on all cameras before wedding shoot
1) Create a work queue for the "keepers" and give it a name and a hot-key
2) Sift through the directories of images and hit the hot-key for every "keeper"
3) Open the work queue, then sort thumbs by date/time (all images from all cameras will be in chronological order now)
4) CTRL-A and then apply a custom tone curve and any other "global" or "baseline" tweaks.
5) Methodically flip through the images, looking for things that need fine-tuning, like fill light, colour/tone adjustments, cropping, white balance etc. etc. More culling can be done during this stage as well. Fixing any of these things is fast and simple, and the fixes for one image can easily be copied and pasted to a whole series (terrific for WB, sensor dust, for example).
6) CTRL-A and hit a hot-key for whatever desired batch queue (web gallery, JPEG, TIFF, whatever). All these batch queues are configurable and more can be created to whatever specs you want.
7) Go for a pint. (You're a Mahoney, after all!)...Show more →
I did not go into detail, but Lightroom being an Adobe product has the backing and support of hundreds and thousands of professionals who have released tools for it's "batch process" ability.
Bibble being as powerful as it is, doesn't have the full support as Adobe's Lightroom.
cogitech wrote:
7) Go for a pint. (You're a Mahoney, after all!)
Aah .. the fun part .. I owe you one by now.
Thanks to everyone for your input .. I'm going to get the Pro version and use it for a few weddings to see how it goes. I've gotten some very good results so far with the Lite Demo and have not really spent a lot of time tweaking. So I guess it can only get better.
The next version is a free upgrade for my purchase so I'll look forward to that as well.
