Bibble

[pburness]

Anybody using Bibble? Can you provide any feedback on it's performance / capability?

Thanks
Phil

[HinFrance]

I ran a couple of trials and the beta of Bibble5. Runs like lightning compared to LR, but it is different. LR is a good organiser, has really good NR built into it, but as a RAW editor is slower, and lacks layers. I prefer the output from Bibble too, seems crisper somehow.

In the end I went for DxO, mainly because of price, the almost one click processing and the dozens of camera body emulations built in. I have to use Picasa as an organiser, because DxO is only a RAW editor. And it's not exactly fast, but I like what comes out of the end.

Why don't you try them all, one at a time, and see what you think?

[pburness]

I might.
I've used Lightroom for a long time but V3.x is just a dog on my machine (and it's echoed across the forums, so it's not just my setup). Even Adobe are asking for feedback on what we may think the problem is, so confidence in a quick fix for it.
Phil

[Cathus]

hmm, can't say I've noticed a problem with LR 3.

I did try Bibble very quickly last year, but I preferred LR for all the extra features.

[HinFrance]

Originally Posted by Cathus

hmm, can't say I've noticed a problem with LR 3.

I did try Bibble very quickly last year, but I preferred LR for all the extra features.

I guess it depends what you want to use it for. LR does organising really well, and there seems to be loads of stuff bolted onto the end I'd never use. Printing, for example. I am used to Qimage, so I use that.

As a RAW editor Bibble is much more flexible and much much much faster to use - I don't know why, for instance, other apps don't have the tabbed edit modules. And in Bibble the 'oranize' and 'develop' modules, to use LR parlance, are all on the same page - there's no waiting for it switch from one mode to another. LR doesn't have layers like Bibble, but does have some other features missing from Bibble.

LR is a much more complete package for sure, but it is slow(er). Horses for courses and all that.

[pburness]

Originally Posted by Cathus

hmm, can't say I've noticed a problem with LR 3.

I did try Bibble very quickly last year, but I preferred LR for all the extra features.

I've had trouble with LR3 since upgrading from LR2.7 - I've even removed everything photoshop and re-installed everything but still the sluggish response, screen flicker and occassional crashes. My machine is well above the basic spec for lightroom and CS5, and I don't run much other stuff on it.

It's a real pain - at first Adobe blamed my machine, but more and more people are seeing the same issues and they are now taking it serious, but I don't see a solution in the short term

Phil