I own it, but have a love hate relationship with it. It's very highly featured, and the interface is good. It comes with noise ninja (limited), and lens correction plugins, which are good.
It has a nice idea for batch processing queues that work well.
But it's always proven buggy for me. I think it's crash/exited at least 50% of the time I've used it for more than 30 minutes. This is not transient. It's been that way for many revisions now.
It has gotten a bit better in that regard, but not completely. I couldn't take it anymore and switched to Raw Shooter Pro, which I also felt did better RAW conversion and never crashed. It wasn't as full featured as Bibble though, and now it's defunct.
I think Adobe Lightroom is probably a better investment. I love the results of Lightroom, and my only real gripe is that it's a memory hog, and slow since it forces you to work with its catalog model of your shots.
But you might also want to take a look at LightZone as well. I played with that on trial once. I couldn't quite get the hang of it, but I think it has the best model of RAW editing, since it allows you to essentially use adjustment layers, and mask adjustments using gradients and spot selections. That's great for landscapes and such (since assuming you didn't blow the exposure, applying a gradient mask to an adjustment layer is similar to a GND.) I'm going to have a look at the latest version myself.
|
