Welcome to Bibble 4.9.5

Please see the bottom of this document for changes in the latest version.

System Requirements:

Linux:
Any 32-bit distribution using kernel version 2.4 or later
X installed and running
Pentium III processor with SSE 1.0GHz or higher. Pentium 4 2.0 or greater
recommended
Athlon XP+ 1.0GHz or great with Support for SSE.
512 Megs of free RAM, 768+ recommended for large (>10Mp ) images or extensive
batch processing (768 minimum for 1DS2/D2X/S2) 

Additional ram may be required if you utilize Bibble's plug-ins.

Supported Cameras:

Nikon 	  D40, D80, D70, D70s, D50, D200, D100, D70, D2Xs, D2X, D2Hs, D2H, D1,
	  D1H, D1X,
	  CoolPix 8800, 8700, 8400
Canon 	  EOS: 400D/Digital Rebel XTi, 350D/Digital Rebel XT, 300D/Digital
	  Rebel, 30D, 20D, 10D, D60, D30, 5D, 1D, 1DM2, 1DS, 1DSM2, 1DM2n
	  Powershot: G2, G3, G5, G6, S40, S45, S50, S60, S70, Pro1
Olympus   EVOLT E400, EVOLT E330, EVOLT E500, EVOLT E300, SP-350, SP-320,
	  SP-310, SP-500 UZ,
	  E20, E10, C-5060, C-5050, C-8080, E1
Kodak 	  14n, 14nx, DCS Pron, DCS Proc
Pentax 	  K10D, K100D, K110D, *ist DS2, *ist D, *ist DS , *ist DL, *IST DL2
Minolta   Maxxum 5D, Dimage A1, A2,A200, Maxxum 7D
Epson 	  R-D1s, R-D1
Fuji	  S3 Pro, S2 Pro, S7000 F810
Sony 	  alpha a100, DSC-R1
Panasonic L1, LX1, LX2, FZ30, FZ50
Leica 	  M8, V-Lux1, Delux 3, D-LUX2/3, DMR
Leaf 	  Aptus 75, Aptus 65, Aptus 22, Aptus 17, Valeo 22, Valeo 11, Valeo 6
Mamiya    Mamiya ZD
Samsung	  GX-1L, GX-1S, Gx-10

Tethered shooting is supported for Nikon, Canon EOS older than 30D and  Kodak
cameras on Power PC Macintosh and Windows. No tethering works for Linux. You
must have the appropriate drivers from your mfg installed for this to function.
Consult your cameras documentation for more details.

Kodak Tethering only works on Bibble Pro.

Some of the more interesting features in Bibble include:

Bibble 4.9.5 Now Ships with Free Plug-ins from nexi.com

The free versions of some of Sean Puckett's most popular Bibble plug-ins are
installed when you install Bibble Pro and Bibble Lite 4.9.5 - giving you more
options and control over your image quality and conversion.

This includes:

Andy 	- B&W Film Simulation
Gina 	- Skin Tone Correction
Roy   - Colour Correction
Sadie - Saturation Control
Siggy - Exposure Control
Tony  - Image Toning


Of course, more plug-ins and Pro versions of the included plug-ins can always
be found at www.nexi.com/bibplugs - so check out what else is available.


New in 4.9:

Clone and Healing Tool

Spot and Patch healing allows you to repair blemishes in your images or to
remove unwanted parts of a scene by copying from a similar part of an image.
Spot Healing blends out detail in a specific part of an image, while Patch
Healing copies a part of an image (the source) over another part of an image
(the destination).  You can easily change from Spot Healing to Patch Healing
to determine which is best for your image.

Each Heal point corrects separately for color (Chroma) and brightness (Luma),
and each point can be set to correct for either Chroma or Luma or both.

		
Other Notable Features:

Perfectly Clear by Athentech

Perfectly Clear is Athentech's (www.athentech.com) award winning and
multi-patented technology that utilizes the physics principles of light.
Perfectly Clear automatically and instantly optimizes the lighting for each and
every pixel while maintaining true color and zero clipping. Perfectly Clear will
also automatically remove abnormal tint and restore faded photographs. Perfectly
Clear utilizes patented medical imaging technology to provide photographs with
optimal contrast and sharpening.

Noise Ninja!
Bibble now includes Best-in-class noise reduction in the form of Noise Ninja
from Picturecode (www.picturecode.com). Bibble's basic noise sliders have been
replaced by similar ones that utilize NN technology to remove noise from your
raw images. The usual steps in raw conversion can actually accentuate noise.
Using Bibble with NN removes this noise at the earliest part of raw conversion
providing superior results then if you tried to remove the noise after the fact.
Registered users of Noise Ninja and Bibble Pro also gain access to advanced
features on the "Noise Ninja registered" tool including more parameters to
adjust and the ability to generate custom profiles.

Lens Distortion Correction

Lens distortion refers to any imperfection in the image that is projected on
your camera's sensor at the time you press the shutter release.  While zoom
lenses with a large range of focal lengths show the greatest distortion, even
fixed-focal length - or "prime" - lenses can exhibit some types of distortion.

Up through version 4.7, lens distortion correction in Bibble was compatible with
Tom Neimans PTLens text database. Tom has recently changed to using a private
binary format for his database and changed his licensing terms and thus the
previous Bibble-supplied lens database is currently not compatible with his
latest database.

Beginning with 4.8, Lens distortion correction has been reworked and moved
inside the main Bibble application. Besides providing a more integrated
solution, weve also added additional controls to correct Chromatic Aberration
and light falloff due to lens vignetting. All of the lens profiles available
with the previous (4.7) version of the BPTlens plugin are also included and
supported. Moving forward we will be providing our own new calibrations as
lenses and cameras are introduced. If you have a lens or camera that isn't
currently supported and would like to ask us to include it, please visit our
Lens calibration page for information on how to send us the needed test shots.
In addition to the new controls you will also find that the lens 
corrections are applied faster and dont require as much memory as before.

Highlight Recovery:

Attempts to return detail in the highest stop of an image that other wise would
be blown out. Values of 25-50 are generally useful and safe for most images. Due
to additional processing needed, very high key images may take longer to process
even when this feature set to zero. Effect of a given strength of HR will also
vary between camera models and even white balance modes. HR Will ideally recover
both Luma and chroma info in a blown region, but if the area is highly blown;
only Luma may return. A little HR can also help recover detail or color in
highly saturated color patches. While HR usually does wonders, occasionally you
will run across an image that actually has its Highlights hurt by the HR code
(Grey or funny color highlights when HR is set to 0), for these images, disable
HR from the Advanced HR panel, or try adjust the threshold parameter.

Straightening Tool:

The Straightening tool allows you make small arbitrary rotations to your images
in those instances when the camera wasnt perfectly aligned to the scene. The
easiest way to use it is to select the new straightening cursor from the tool
bar and then click/drag a line on your image over an element that should be
vertical or horizontal. The tool will calculate the angle needed to straighten
this element and automatically realign the image. Since this operation happens
at the earliest point the image pipeline, you get the highest quality
correction.  The Crop/Rotate tool has new controls to make fine adjustments to
the straightening angle or reset it.

Vibrance

The vibrance tool adaptively adjusts saturation to increase the colorfulness and
impact of an image without making it look unnatural.

Fill Light:

Selectively adjust exposure in the darkest area of the image. Use to balance
exposure in high Dynamic range scenes. Small to medium values work best. May
increase noise if used in deep shadows.

Plug-In Interface:

Bibble now has a plug-in interface designed to allow third parties to add new
image processing features to Bibble. With this interface, developers can add
their own routines anywhere in Bibbles image processing pipeline. Bibble
plug-ins use the same type of tool dialogs that the program itself does and
their settings are manipulated as if they were built-in settings, so the
plug-ins are compatible with all of the features of Bibble, for example batch
queues. This simple to use framework should serve as an excellent platform for
folks wishing to experiment with new image processing techniques.

Black and White Plugin

Using the Plug-in

The "Enable Black and White" checkbox turns the plug-in on and off so you can
quickly toggle between the full color image and the black and white image. The
drop down box allows you to control how the image is converted to monochrome.
For example, you may choose to just use the red channel or choose a standard
luma conversion. Most of the monochrome options are self-explanatory, but the
"Red versus Green & Blue" option is a bit different. This function chooses
either 67% Red or 70% Green + 30% Blue depending on which value is larger. This
results in skin tones, sky, and grass all coming through lighter than they might
using the other options. For example, if you chose the Red Green maximum
function, skin tones and grass would be lighter, but skies would be darker
because they generally don't contain much green or red.

The "Add spot color" check boxes will select pixels that are close to the chosen
hue from the original image and color them in the black and white image. The hue
controls the color of the selected pixels in the black and white image, and the
fuzziness slider controls how close a pixel's color must be in the original
image to be colorized in the black and white image. The hue angle ranges from 0
to 360 degrees and can be entered in the edit box, or set with the color picker
by moving the point in the outer ring. The intensity of the color is determined
by the original pixel, so moving the point in the triangle part of the color
picker has no effect. You can fine tune your hue selection in the color picker
with the right and left arrows on your keyboard. The fuzziness slider ranges
from 0 to 180 degrees and represents an angle centered on the hue selected by
the hue slider. A lower value means that only pixels that are almost the exact
same hue as the selected hue will be colored in the final image. A higher value
will include more pixels. The second spot color is applied after the first spot
color and can overwrite pixels colored by the first spot color. For example, if
one area of the image is a yellowish green, and the first spot color is yellow
and the second spot color is green, the pixel will end up as green in the black
and white image.

Printing:
Final images, multiple layouts, blazing fast contact sheets.

Batch Queues:
Multiple background batch outputs available at all times. Process images in the
background while you work.

Fast Previews:
Work on your images instantly and in real time while the final image processes
in the background.

Work Queues:
Easy way to view / edit files from multiple sources. Browse multiple files with
the same name from location shoots in one easy place.

Customizable interface:
Configure the windows the way you want them at any time.  Switch from browsing
to image close-up with the touch of a key.

Redesigned tools:
Common functions grouped together, easily customizable to make your own tools.

Web Galleries: Quickly generate html to put your images on the web.

PNG Output:
8 and 16 bit lossless compressed files.

Powerful Rename:
Rename either original or output images using configurable combinations of
embedded metadata, job names, sequence numbers.

Configurable Copy/Paste:
Copy and paste complete settings from images, or copy configurable subsets, all
via hotkey.

Linux:
Professional quality output and workflow now available on Linux!

New HTML Help system:
Complete program documentation available in simple to browse html format.


Bibble is designed to support both traditional "single image" and advanced
"edit/batch" workflows. One of the keys to its power is it allows you to
customize most aspects of its interface and workflow. Once you have explored the
program in detail, you should be able to custom craft a workflow that suits your
unique style and output requirements. As many of these concepts and features are
new, please be sure to read the manual in order to gain the best understanding
of what Bibble has to offer.


We hope you enjoy Bibble and it becomes an integral part of your raw image
workflow.

If you are a developer interested in writing plug-ins for Bibble, please send an
email with the word plugin in the subject to plugins@bibblelabs.com. Tell us a
little about what type of plug-in you wish to create and your background, and
well be happy to send you a copy of the specification.

- The Bibble team

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Last Minute Notes.

Users who have installed both the English and localized versions of Photoshop
may find the plugin installed in the wrong folder. Depending on your situation,
the plugin will be in either the standard "Plugins/file formats" folder or its
localized equivalent.  You may need to copy it to the folder that doesn't
contain it. In rare cases, the plugin might not be installed correctly at all.
If this happens, copy it ("Bibble Raw.8bi") from the bibble application folder
to the correct plugin/file formats folder in photoshop.

Bibble for Macintosh is now a universal binary which means that one install
works on older PPC macs as well as newer intel macs. Special Intel specific
optimizations in 4.8 mean the newest  macs will convert raw files 30-40% faster
then before.

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Change log:

4.9x

Added support for Olympus E400 
Added support for Nikon D40 
Added support for Pentax K10D (What a nice cam!)..pef and native DNG 
Added support for Samsung GX-1L, GX-1S, GX-10 
Added support for Lecia V-Lux 1, D-Lux 3, Digilux 3 M8(Native DNG) 
Added support for Mamiya ZD 
Revised and improved color for all Oly DSLR's 
Improved All Olympus color reprodcution and "maze" problem. 
Enabled Tethered shooting for Nikon D80 
Fixed zipper artifiacts in point and shoot minolta support. 
Fixed lack of persistance for changes with WB/Tint hotkey 
Fixed crash when renaming files on mac. 
Fixed tethering with Kodak pro SLR's on windows. 
Fixed crash dragging files to work queues on mac (And just general dragging). 
Fixed problem with Sony A100 WB numbers (May require redoing custom WB) 
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when copying spots among images of
different sizes. 
Fixed small memory leak in spot healing 
Fixed small memory leak in Noise Ninja profile handling 
Fixed display of EV Bias (integer part was getting dropped) 
Fixed problem preventing NN Auto_proof from working if there was a profile 
Fixed highlight warning bad color on intel macs.


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Thanks for your support
-The Bibble team

