Bibble Plugins
Bibble's unique plug-in architecture allows developers outside Bibble Labs to extend the power and control Bibble currently offers by developing unique plug-ins. These tools operate within Bibble's advanced image processing pipeline, allowing creative contol beyond any other RAW conversion platform.
Bibble's Black and White Plugin
With Bibble 4.8 is a new plugin - Black And White conversion. This plugin allows you to convert an image to Black and White with much more control that simple desaturation - you can choose what color channels to use. But the real power in the plugin is in re-adding one or two colors back into the image. This is seen in the animation to the right. The first image in the animation is the original, the second shows the Black and White output - using Luminance to determine the black and white value. The third and fourth images reveal the Spot Color additions.
Third Party Plug-ins
Independent developers can extent Bibble's core image processing tools by creating new plug-ins. Below is a list of some of the plug-ins that have been developed.
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Huey - Color Correction Plug-in
Huey is a colour correction/adjustment plug-in that allows spot colour to be corrected -- that is, for image areas of one colour or a range of similar colours to be adjusted for tint, brightness and saturation. Huey has three channels of colour correction -- Red, Green and Blue -- each of which can be adjusted along a wide range of similar hues, allowing all image colours to be selected and modified.
HueyPRO UpgradeHueyPRO gives you three extra channels of colour correction (cyan, magenta and yellow), and enhances how colours are selected for modification. Each channel gains a “width” slider which allows you to adjust the span of colours that are selected and a “softness” slider which allows you to change the feathering of the selection from a hard cutoff to a very wide, gentle slope. Huey Freeware has these values fixed to useful and flexible constants, but it is often helpful to change them when attempting for precise colour correction. HueyPRO costs $10USD.
Huey and HueyPro both available at: http://nexi.com/huey
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Sadie - Saturation Control Plug-in
Sadie is an advanced tool for adjusting image saturation -- the intensity of colour. Sadie includes controls for Greys, Chromes, Shadows, Midtones, Highlights, and Global Boost. Each control allows you to affect saturation of a specific portion (or all of) of your image. With these controls at hand, you'll have an easy way to enhance the colour of your image both subtly and dramatically.
SadiePRO UpgradeSadiePRO adds a drop list control which allows you to choose which colourspace Sadie uses for its internal processes. This gives you a choice: HSV, HSL, or Sadie Freeware's “Visual.” These options allow you to change the effect Sadie has when your image nears maximum possible brightness, by either adding more colour (HSV), adding more white (HSL), or simulating increased dynamic range (Visual). SadiePRO costs $10USD.
Sadie and SadiePro both available at: http://nexi.com/sadie
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Siggy - Exposure Control Plug-in
Siggy is an exposure adjusment tool that gives you easy control over your image's luminance (a.k.a. brightness). Unlike traditional “brightness” or “exposure” sliders, Siggy attempts to preserve detail in highlights and shadows even when greatly increasing or decreasing overall luminance. Siggy also allows you to enhance contrast subtly or dramatically, and lets you adjust shadow and highlight tones with their own specific sliders.
SiggyPRO UpgradeSiggyPRO is the professional version of Siggy, and gives you extra controls for additional adjustments of your image. SiggyPRO adds two new sliders: “Shadow Range” and “Highlight Range” which change the range of levels that the “Shadows” and “Highlight” sliders affect. With these sliders, you can restrict shadows/highlights to just a very small range of tones, or your entire image. This gives you more possibilities for correcting severe defects, or just applying more creative control. SiggyPRO costs $10USD.
Siggy and SiggyPro both available at: http://nexi.com/siggy
About the Plugin Interface
The plug-in interface in a tool that allows third party developers to add functionality to Bibble by developing tools that can be used inside Bibble. If you are interested in developing a plugin, email us with "plugin SDK" in the subject line.
