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jdoran · Feb 20, 2006, 05:25 PM

I'm going to need a raw organizer very soon and I was thinking about Bibble Pro. I was wondering, how fast is it. Can anyone give me their experience/predictions. Also, if anyone has any other sugestions for a different software, I'd love to hear it. I need something that runs decently fast, does not exceed 300$, and has a good overall interface. My specs are posted below. Thanks for any help given!

art_director · Feb 20, 2006, 06:30 PM

How are you planning to use the application you purchase?

jdoran · Feb 20, 2006, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by art_director

How are you planning to use the application you purchase?

I plan on shooting almost exclusivly in raw and will be leaving the good to superior photos in that format while I convert the rest to jpeg. Right now that means I'll have about 300 photos to put onto Bibble, and much more in the future. My main purpose for getting this program will be for photo-organization. Right now I use iPhoto which is actualy quite good now that its been updated; however, I would like an organizer that takes better advantage of the RAW format's capabilities. I'd like to use it to make as much adjustments as possible without resorting to photoshop. I love photoshop, but I'm not going to load up every good photo I take and process it with that. Its just not convient enough and seems too exsessive to make adjustments such as saturation/contrast/noise adjustments in such an intensive program. I'll save PS for my creative projects.

art_director · Feb 20, 2006, 10:31 PM

What do you consider to be too excessive about it? I'm not arguing, I just haven't heard that position on Photohop before.

I'm also curious to know what your creative projects might be. Sounds interesting. Are you an illustrator?

jdoran · Feb 21, 2006, 01:55 AM

By excessive I mean it is not geared towards photo organizing. Since that is my main concern I want the tools that allow me to do just that, plus a few extra features like the ones I mentioned above. I don't need all the extra features that PS includes, they just make the program that much slower, which is what I'm really concerned about. Of course; again, I’m not sure that Bibble will be all that fast on my computer. *Also, for the sake of clarity, fast to me means loading up the program in about 5- 10 seconds, scrolling through thumbnails with little on no lag, and no annoying "spinning beach ball" during the editing process. And no I'm not an illustrator, not even close. I'm still relatively new to photography and PhotoShop. Besides a couple of other projects, I've only stitched together a few panoramas. Normally that wouldn't be to difficult, but the pictures I've used were not shot with the same exposure nor with a tripod, so I ended up doing a lot of editing to get the panorama to look seamless. Anyway, thanks for being so attentive, and thanks again for any help!

art_director · Feb 21, 2006, 10:16 AM

Being a pro user I'm not acquainted with any applications specifically geared at organizing photos. Given the narrow scope of features you want I'd think you'd be hard-pressed to find a solution. Best of luck.

jdoran · Feb 21, 2006, 01:28 PM

Right, suffice it to say that Bibble, Aperature, and many other RAW workflow programs satisfy enough of my requirements. That is, all but one that I'm unsure of. Going back to the question this post was created for: given my specs, will Bibble run fast enough? *See above for my definition of fast. If their is anyone out there who can share their personal experience with the program or even a prediction, I'd be happy to here it. Thank you!

art_director · Feb 21, 2006, 05:12 PM

Have you looked into the Gimp?

Bennettskaya · Mar 1, 2006, 02:30 PM

It's not just speed but also quality. Bibble is quick and easy to see what is going on. The controls are nice and obvious to use and very good. I haven't seen version 4.6 (that came out a day or two ago) and it may have completely new features, but with 4.5 there are things you cannot do that, for example, you can do in Photoshop - such as select the bit of the image you want to sharpen. And of course, there are no layers and no typefaces. BUT you can output to a tif and tweak in photoshop later. If you want to convert RAW images and do a good job, Bibble is very good. (Good lenses help too.)

Yose · Mar 2, 2006, 02:57 PM

You and your brother should call your company, Doran Doran.