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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
■ Matty: Lets you create borders, frames, or mats around your images; useful for the
Web
■ Percy: For perspective correction, fisheye remapping, skewing, aspect change, scaling,
and rotation
■ SharpiePRO: To sharpen/blur an image using “contrast enhancement,” “luminance
blur,” and “pixel punch” filters (see full entry)
Comments
Eric Hyman founded Bibble (named after his cat) in 2000 to decode RAW files from
the Nikon D1. Since then he and his team have maintained a furious pace of development,
keeping the product at the forefront of digital photography year after year, despite
stiff competition. It is a superb program, with non-destructive processing and exceptionally
good batch facilities. Version 4.3 added BPTLens correction, for uncurving the
distortions of ultra-wide-angle lenses. IPTC editing is well implemented. Black-andwhite
conversion comes with spot coloring in two colors. The list goes on—and all this
for a fraction of the cost of Capture One.
Version: Bibble 4.10 (2008)
Plugs into: Pro version Photoshop 7 and later; Lite version Photoshop Elements 2.0
OS: Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, and XP; Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher; Linux 2.4 or later
RAM: 512MB
Supported file formats: RAW (nearly all); JPEG and TIFF
Price level: Approx. $130, Lite $70
Address: Bibble Labs Inc., 11940 Jollyville Road, Suite 115-N, Austin, TX 78759, United States
www.bibblelabs.com
BreezeBrowser Pro
Vendor: Breeze Systems
Purpose: RAW converter with a browser-style interface, batch processing, and Web page generation
Description
BreezeBrowser Pro not only converts RAW images but can also generate Web pages, produce
proofs and contact sheets, and conduct a whole range of post-processing operations.
It offers a huge range of features, including options such as levels, gamma correction,
saturation adjustment, resizing, and sharpening. It offers RAW conversion for Canon,
Nikon, Pentax, Minolta, and Olympus cameras, with preservation of Exif metadata. One
distinguishing feature that sets it apart from other processors is its “combined conversion,”
obtaining excellent coloration with a first conversion combined with a second pass
to improve highlight detail.