AfterShotPro 01/10/2012
 
Well, this is the big news: Bibble became Corel AfterShot Pro!

I hope this will be a new beginning for my favourite RAW developer, and I hope it will have the success it deserves. This should motivate Corel to invest even more in this new product, for more features, more regular updates, and listening for user feedback.
I think the team badly needs a few more developers.
AfterShot could push Corel to port PaintShop Pro to Linux, too - the operating system badly needs a performant bitmap editor. Gimp is almost a decade behind Photoshop considering its features.

Now about my plugins
The good news is that AfterShot Pro has the same great plugin architecture as Bibble - with even more flexibility!

Right now I'm upgrading my plugins to the new SDK, to be able to take advantage of the new features. I hope I'll be able to release them during the next month.
Note that Pixie and Blacky are now part of AfterShot Pro core. You can find both in the Standard tab as Raw noise removal and Blacks.
Harry, Sally and Vigne and Zone should be the first plugins to be updated, followed by SallyPro. 
iNDA will be discontinued, and Lay will be dropped untill the SDK will support the changing of the alpha channel.

...and new plugins will come shortly!

The Bibble plugins on this page will not work on AfterShot Pro. So please don't buy my plugins for AfterShot Pro, I won't support them. (I have enough work with porting the plugins right now)
Please wait for the new plugins to be released!
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This is a question I ask myself often: what are the choices of a photographer using Linux?
I'm an amateur photographer, and I don't make lot of pictures; I shoot mostly JPEG and sometimes RAW; and I never print my pictures.
I need a simple cataloging application to manage my personal photos. Gnome and KDE come with their own software, F-Spot and DigiKam. I heard that DigiKam is more complete with more options, but I use Gnome. So I stayed with a proprietary - but cross-platform application, Picasa. It just works well for me, I was using it for many years under Windows (before it was bought by Google).
For RAW development I don't really need cataloging, but I like to be able to work with all my photos in the same time. And I like to have all the basic editing options in the software. Fortunately there are several great programs for this; I'm using Bibble5, and RawTherapee is also a great choice (waiting for version 3). UFRaw is a good alternative to ACR, and there are other excelent RAW developers, too.
Now here's the problem: what to use for photo/image editing? Generally there are a lots of programs to do anything in Linux (at least 5-6 great video editors, and more to come), but in this field the only possibility is Gimp. And it doesn't even compare with an old Photoshop yet. I'm really missing the adjustment layers, layer effects and easily adjustable brushes, it supports only 8bpp RGB, etc. And next version will be released next year. Alternatives? Cinepaint (it's even more basic), Pixel (expensive vapourware) or TuxPaint (for kids under 5). Photoshop with Wine? Why didn't anybody else try to write a good photo editor? Finally Gimp is useable, but why aren't there any alternatives? And none of the good commercial applications are ported to Linux...
So, what's your suggestion? What are you using? Any good ideas? Write your answer in the comments!
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I'm happy to announce the release of Bibble 5 on my first post of 2010!

Congratulations, guys, you did a great job!

Bibble 5 is great, but I still appreciate the most the openness towards the community of the Bibblelabs team - I can really see it on the final product.

Anyway, hurry and visit the Bibble website, download the trial and buy it! You won't regret it!
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Merry Christmas 12/24/2009
 
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

...with a brand new Bibble 5!

By the way, as the previews of Bibble 5 are getting more and more complete, I decided to discontinue the Bibble 4 plugins from next January. However, they are ready and I can post them if you are interested, just contact me on the feedback form.
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