Corel buys Bibble

NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
edited January 17, 2012 in Digital Darkroom
This is interesting news. I have had admiration for the latest version of Bibble despite its limitations and Corel's PaintShopPro is a highly developed product with a large customer base.

http://bibblelabs.com/press/pr20120109.html

Some of the less dominant photoediting software have possessed gems of expertise, creativity and usefulness which have been unknown to many photographers. Another example besides Bibble was LightZone, which is also now attracting new interest for its uniqueness and fit with the needs of photographers specifically. The Bibble team is now working for Corel, and the LightZone developers are now working for Adobe.

http://lightzombie.org/


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  • ZBlackZBlack Registered Users Posts: 337 Major grins
    edited January 9, 2012
    This looks interesting, it sounded like they were offering the upgrade price for users of Lightroom as well? I may test the trial out of Aftershot Pro just to see what it's like.

    *edit* It does appear you can when you click on the "Am I eligible for an upgrade?" you can see Lightroom and Aperture are on there. That's pretty cool.
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited January 9, 2012
    My hopes are that Corel is panning to upgrade PaintShopPro and integrating a decent RAW front end and compete with PS (almost) head-to-head, and then hopefully offer PSP in a MAC version, in which they have been always been slacking.
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  • MarkRMarkR Registered Users Posts: 2,099 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2012
    Quick Correction, Neill: the Lightzone developer is working on Apple Iphone applications. Not Adobe.

    EDIT: And the original Bibble creator is now working for Microsoft, on non-imaging related things.
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2012
    MarkR wrote: »
    Quick Correction, Neill: the Lightzone developer is working on Apple Iphone applications. Not Adobe.

    EDIT: And the original Bibble creator is now working for Microsoft, on non-imaging related things.

    Ah yes, thanks Mark! I did have a moment of doubt about what I wrote, Adobe or Apple! Confusing that they both begin with "A"!mwink.gif

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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,127 moderator
    edited January 11, 2012
    Corel AfterShot Pro, the result of the Corel-Bibble merge, is available, in versions for Windows®, Mac OS® and Linux®.

    Price is $99USD, except for an upgrade path available to certain customers at $79.

    http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4670071&cid=catalog20038&segid=6000006&storeKey=us&languageCode=en

    A 30 day trial is offered for free.
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  • MarkRMarkR Registered Users Posts: 2,099 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2012
    ziggy53 wrote: »
    Corel AfterShot Pro, the result of the Corel-Bibble merge, is available, in versions for Windows®, Mac OS® and Linux®.

    Price is $99USD, except for an upgrade path available to certain customers at $79.

    http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4670071&cid=catalog20038&segid=6000006&storeKey=us&languageCode=en

    A 30 day trial is offered for free.

    Previous Bibble purchasers can also upgrade for $20, or free if purchased in last 120 days, according to an email I got from Bibblelabs.
  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,127 moderator
    edited January 11, 2012
    MarkR wrote: »
    Previous Bibble purchasers can also upgrade for $20, or free if purchased in last 120 days, according to an email I got from Bibblelabs.

    Good to know. Thanks. thumb.gif
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  • martinjp2martinjp2 Registered Users Posts: 29 Big grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    ziggy53 wrote: »
    Corel AfterShot Pro, the result of the Corel-Bibble merge, is available, in versions for Windows®, Mac OS® and Linux®.

    Price is $99USD, except for an upgrade path available to certain customers at $79.

    http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4670071&cid=catalog20038&segid=6000006&storeKey=us&languageCode=en

    A 30 day trial is offered for free.
    MarkR wrote: »
    Previous Bibble purchasers can also upgrade for $20, or free if purchased in last 120 days, according to an email I got from Bibblelabs.

    PSP users get AfterShot Pro for $49 until 1/15/12. I just bought a copy, waiting for my new computer to come before loading it.
    Jim
  • JimClarkJimClark Registered Users Posts: 305 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2012
    I downloaded the demo and it would not recognise DNG files anyone get that to work? It is supposed to work with DNG according to the specs
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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2012
    JimClark wrote: »
    I downloaded the demo and it would not recognise DNG files anyone get that to work? It is supposed to work with DNG according to the specs
    JIm

    Apparently it supports DNG natively out of certain bodies (eg M9). It doesn't support ACR (etc) DNG. Yet.

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  • Dan7312Dan7312 Registered Users Posts: 1,330 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2012
    It's been a while since I have used Bibble, but if I remember correctly it never supported generic DNG, only dng files that were produced directly by certain cameras. I remember that on their user forum there were requests for generic DNG support but can't remember the reasons for not supporting it.

    Has Corel/Bibble said something about adding support for generic DNG files?

    I would think that supporting generic DNG in a product like Bibble would not be all that easy. Although the format is published they don't know how the conversion from raw to dng is being done, like Adobe does. I'm sure it's possible, I just don't think it's a walk in the park, that's all.

    I think it would be a lot of work to insure that you got the same results with Bibble whether you processed the dng or raw version of an image.

    There is a saying in software "A thing on a thing is not the same as the thing." I think it was Phillipe Kahn (who started Borland, if you remember them) who first said this.
    NeilL wrote: »
    Apparently it supports DNG natively out of certain bodies (eg M9). It doesn't support ACR (etc) DNG. Yet.

    Neil
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  • MarkRMarkR Registered Users Posts: 2,099 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2012
    NeilL wrote: »
    Apparently it supports DNG natively out of certain bodies (eg M9). It doesn't support ACR (etc) DNG. Yet.

    Neil

    Bibblelabs has always been adamant about not supporting (or being able to support) converted DNGs. This may or may not change under Corel's leadership.
  • JimClarkJimClark Registered Users Posts: 305 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2012
    Don't know on that it just lists DNG under file formats. Oh well taking it off my computer now.
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