Bibble 4.0 for Linux

traycer writes "Finally, professional-grade digital camera raw workflow software for Linux. Bibble 4.0 from BibbleLabs is a Qt-based commercial package (available in Lite and Pro versions) that promises to have batch workflow efficiency, raw conversion speed and image output quality rivalling or surpassing that of Phase One's much more expensive Capture One software (which isn't available for Linux anyway). Bibble 4.0 also supports tethered shooting for some DSLRs, end-to-end colour-managed workflow, and a very nice system of user-definable work queues for those with several photo shoots on the go. Now all they need is a Bibble plug-in for the GIMP..."

Re:Linux???

[rolfpal]

A little gamma correction system is here, this is not for full color calibration. for that you need special equipment but its alot better than nothing, and can work for personal use.

http://pixel.fairyden.net/tkgamma/ [fairyden.net] tkgamma utility

Cheers

Re:Linux???

[jeif1k]

I mean, what good is "end-to-end colour workflow" when I can't even PROFILE THE MONITOR on Linux??

X11 has Xcms to characterize devices, and LCMS provides color management for applications. ImageMagick and the Gimp both can use the LCMS.

Mac dual G5 with Sony Artisan monitor is the way to do it. Linux still has a long way to go before I'd even consider it for color-sensitive photography.

If that makes you happy, fine. But just because you don't know about color management on other platforms doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Re:Linux???

[Anonymous Coward]

X11 has Xcms to characterize devices, and LCMS provides color management for applications. ImageMagick and the Gimp both can use the LCMS.

Okay, what brand of color meter works under Linux? Macbeth? ColorVision?

Where is the KDE control panel for color management? Where do I put the profiles? How do I soft-proof? Can I script in Perl or Ruby like I can do color management scripting on the Mac?

End-to-end colour management doesn't mean "somebody wrote a half-finished library for it".

Re:Linux???

[Anonymous Coward]

> X11 has Xcms to characterize devices, and LCMS provides
> color management for applications. ImageMagick and the
> Gimp both can use the LCMS.

Um... first you try to compare this to real color management...

> If that makes you happy, fine. But just because you don't know
> about color management on other platforms doesn't mean it
> doesn't exist.

And then come out with a statement like the above. If you're trying to make an argument, then show an example of full working color management, not

Re:Linux???

[Anonymous Coward]

(for those who don't have the experience, the above poster has just done the equivalent of comparing a honda with a type R sticker to a F1 racer and expected to sound knowledgeable)

Yes, quite right. That is, of course, with the Macintosh being the Honda: it's easy to use, it gets most people where they want to go, and it's a black-box solution that can effectively only be serviced at its authorized dealer. And like Honda Type R drivers, by using it, you fancy yourself a race car driver even though you

This ought to be funny...

[Zapman]

They were /.'ed yesterday just from being posted to dpreview.com... Heaven forbid what the real /. will do...

Though when I invest in a DSLR early next year, I think I'll take a long look at their offerings...

One step closer to taking the "Holy Orders"

[ryandlugosz]

This is excellent news. I've been using Capture One's software on my PC for a while now to convert RAW images and do the basic digital-darkroom stuff. Unfortunately, the software does not run in Linux and the company (not surprisingly) has no plans to support it. Their software is quite expensive, but does the job nicely.

Bibble looks like a very complete package. I'll certainly be doing a thorough feature comparison and then will *very* strongly consider purchasing the Linux version. Working with my p

Akward....

[GoRK]

You would think that a company specalizing in image processing would be extremely concious of all the JPEG artifacting all over the images on their site.

Of course they have been linked fro a lot of sites in the last couple of days... Maybe they are actually reducing their bandwidth usage by recompressing all of the images on their site? I never saw it before, so I really don't know.

John

Re:Akward....

[lphuberdeau]

Even their logo is barely readable. That kind of image could probably get even better compression using gif or png, without the horrible quality loss.

It does not look professional at all, even if the software itself looks good enough. Also, there are very few screenshots of the actual applications (found some outside home page?). I'm surprised to see that from a company that actually sells products.

Ugh, Bibble

[Anonymous Coward]

I downloaded this program for the Mac once .. it was HORRIBLE. The interface was straight out of Windows 3.0, all the controls were non-standard, the icon and graphics look very unprofessional, the program was very slow and made my 1.5GHz powerbook's fan come on all the time just browsing images, the images would constantly come in pixelated and then after about 5 seconds finally "render" (hello, cache it the first time, okay?), it even crashed a few times...utterly useless except for it's primary function

works nicely

[imr]

on linux mdk 10.1. I just tried the rpm they provide, and no problem whatsoever.
They seem to provide automatic enhancements of the pictures based on the model of digital camera. Nice.

QT

[Zork the Almighty]

Where are all the trolls bitching that nobody will write commercial software for QT because it costs money ?

Well, I have just bought it

[Wheely]

Raw image manipulation was the one thing that was making me consider running Windows (in vmware of course)and I haven't used a windows box in a looong time.

The software is extremely good. Anti-aliased fonts are missing (due to a mistake in production, it defaults to off with qt) but that will be addressed in the next update apparently. There are issues with printing that MIGHT be realated to "cups" but these are minor issue compared to the raw speed and qualty of what bibble produces.

There are open sourc

No go on Athlon, SSE instructions needed?

[cruff]

Bibblelite dies on my Athlon system with SIGILL very early on. The hardware requirements list Pentium SSE type CPUs.