Photo Management with Bibble 5

Bibble 5 offers a full suite of photo management tools to allow you to quickly organize your existing digital photographs and allows you to quickly add additional photos or catalogs of photos at any time. Once you've imported your images into a Bibble 5 Catalog, Bibble 5's asset management features provide all the tools necessary to help you find the photos you want.

Building a Bibble 5 Library & Catalogs

Importing all your photographic work into one or more Bibble 5 Catalogs is quick and easy. You have several choices of how to import, where to store the images, and what Catalog folders you want to create during the import.

Importing Options

  • Copy Files - Perfect for downloading images from a camera or memory card
  • Move Files - Great when organizing an existing set of digital photographs
  • Refer to Original Folders - Use this if your photos are already on your computer, grouped into logical folders
  • Refer to Original Files - Advanced option that allows additional organizational options

(Read more about importing options in our online Bibble 5 User's Guide)


Using Bibble 5 Library & Catalogs

Once your images have been imported into a Bibble 5 Catalog, you can find your images in several different ways - all organized on the Library tab.

Finding images in Bibble 5 Catalogs

  • Browse by Folder - Click on one or more folder to see the images they contain
  • Browse by Metadata - Find images using metadata like the date the image was taken, the camera or lens it was shot with, exposure or shooting information and camera settings, or using metadata you've added, like ratings, labels, tags, and keywords
  • Search for Images - Enter part of a filename, keyword, or other text-based items to see all matching images
  • Browsing Refinement - Add more and more metadata filters to drill-down to exactly the images you want to see
  • Work Seamlessly Across Multiple Catalogs - Multiple Catalogs allow you to store and organize different sets of images differently, while allowing you to search and browse across many Catalogs just as if it were one large collection
  • Off-Line Images - View Previews of off-line files and view and edit Metadata for this files
  • Portable Catalogs - Allowing access to a single Catalog from more than one computer, and allowing you to quickly move a Catalog from one computer to another

Don't Need Asset Management? No Problem.

Bibble 5 is the only photographic workflow application that makes the complete asset management system optional. If you already organize your images into folders on your computer, then working with Bibble 5 is simple. Just click the File System tab and click on the folder you want to work in. That's it. No need to import or worry about cataloging at all.

Bibble 5's flexible worklfow possibilities ensure that Bibble will conform to how you want to work.




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