![]() Don't be shy about signing up to the forum, they will treat you well. The Bibble support forums are very helpful too and there are various how-to's, documentation, and videos to help out the newcomer to Bibble. Some of the program highlights in addition to standard RAW editing are spot healing and patching, Noise Ninja, lens distortion correction, vignette control, and B&W conversions (shown in screen shot). If you think you may want to switch operating systems, you can start using Bibble now on Windows to get familiar with it, then when you make the switch, you are light years ahead of the learning curve when you use Bibble in Linux. The nice thing about Bibble is that it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms so you really have the most freedom to use whatever system you want. It took me a little bit of time to get used to the interface and ways of accomplishing tasks (coming from an Adobe background), but I have been able to ultimately do all my RAW work with Bibble as efficiently as I did with Adobe Bridge. Right now that editor is Bibble Pro 4.9.5 from Bibble Labs. The first task for me when I made the switch in operating systems was to find a RAW editor I could use. Wine still isn't at the 1.0 level of completeness, but it is close enough now that Photoshop 7 and many other Windows based programs run very well. ![]() The makers of Wine describe the program as a Windows compatibility layer that makes the Windows based program you want to run think it is running in Windows. All of which I am happy to report are working very well in a program called Wine. ![]() Some notable examples being Photoshop 7, MemoriesOnTV, and Star Wars Jedi Knight II*. There are a few Windows based programs I still need to run for lack of better Linux based alternatives. My sparkly new Linux computer now runs a semi-different lineup of software than it did with Windows, instead of Adobe Bridge for editing RAW files, I use Bibble Pro 4.9.5, instead of running Nero to burn CD's and DVD's, I use a program called K3b. The switchover was complete, and I have not looked back since. Well I got tired of doing that all the time, and can't really afford the unreliability this introduces into my computer, so I denied Windows' demand, and instead backed up all my data before the 3-day shut-off date expired. And little by little, I started moving more and more work over to Ubuntu until one day late December 2006 when I installed a new sound card in my desktop, Windows decided *it* didn't like that, and told me I had to get permission from Microsoft to keep using my computer. I then began dual booting between Ubuntu and Windows XP. ![]() Ubuntu was the first version of Linux that worked on both my desktop and laptop, and that sealed the deal for me. I tried out a lot of versions until I came to Ubuntu Linux. So I hope to rectify that here with information that may be beneficial to the Linux based photographer or those simply contemplating a move to Linux.Īs a wedding photographer coming from a long and heavy Windows background, I wasn't very fluent or capable with Linux when I first started investigating it last year. There is a wealth of information out there about editing photographs on Windows and Mac platforms, but not so much about Linux. #title Linux and Photography Article by Shay Stephens This article may not be appropriate for this wiki, and may be deleted. ![]()
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