Robert’s Photography Blog

Bibble Labs will be officially launching Bibble 5 RAW conversion software on Sept 23rd at Photokina 2008. Bibble 5 offers significant improvement over the Bibble 4-series in all aspects of photographic workflow. It offers finer control over image quality and adjustments, huge speed gains, and a more flexible workflow. Bibble 5 will support all current operating systems and platforms as well as 64-bit operating systems.

Completely new is the Layers & Regions control that allows you to create multiple layers with circular, polygonal, curved or painted regions that include any of Bibble 5 editing tools. Selective Editing is completely non-destructive, and is tightly incorporated into the workflow. You can copy and paste regions from image to image, and add, delete, rename, and re-order Layers & Regions in the Layer Manager.

Workflow Features

• Image Comparison View
• Layers & Regions
• Noise Reduction with Noise Ninja Technology
• Simultaneously Browse & Search
• Presets that can include image settings and metadata
• Image Edit History
• Multiple versions per master image
• Hotkey editor
• Intelligent renamer
• Group images into Stacks
• Keyword Sets and Hotkeys
• RAW-level plug-in interface

Price and Availability

Bibble 5 Pro will be available in Q4 of 2008 at an initial price of $199.95, and will continue to be offered for Windows, OSX, and Linux. Bibble Version 4 will continue to be available until Bibble 5 is released. Purchasers of Bibble 4.10 (current version) will receive a free upgrade to Bibble 5, when it becomes available.

There is no mention of Bibble 5 Lite in the press release. I assume the lite version has been discontinued. Also, no information yet on what discount (if any) current users of earlier versions of the Bibble 4 series will receive.