After trialling this with my selection of extremely badly exposed wedding photo's (criminally bad).. I noticed an upgrade offer running on Bibble Pro this month (No proof of purchase required ) for £14.99, making it a bargain.
Like all RAW Converters/Workflow solutions, it's not faultless, but it certainly IMO is very much a good choice on VFM for most home/casual users..
I have 120 terribly exposed wedding RAW images that I just couldn't get LR3.5 to get the right results (I'm sure the user is a contributing factor).. Aftershot Pro has actually been more succesful and for my workflow offers slight easier/quicker methods of working with duplicates and multi-viewing images for comparison.
I'd say strengths are
- 'Perfectly Clear' features that can actually work quite reliably, it prevents clipping and maintains accurate colours, doing per-pixel lighting, and it actually works in a lot of cases
- Good set of standard adjustments (as you'd expect)
- Duplicate and side by side working is super simple
- Local adjustments
- Catalog features are not the most comprehensive, but more then adequate for normal catalogging
- Noise Ninja Standard is included, definitely does a good job
- Cheap (Even £79.99 RRP compares well IMO)
- Seemingly very comprehensive Lens/Camera for
Weaknesses (in this first release)
- Sharpening is not that good, Capture ONE Pro is my personal benchmark for that (LR's grain algorithm is not my cup of tea). Obviously I just don't use sharpening at the RAW level so much, I sharpen afterwards depending on the target usage (small prints = more heavy sharpening)
- too much highlight recovery can lead to a white clipping becoming pink, it's easily rectified by dropping highlight recovery and adjusting exposure, but it leads to a little more faffing
- I don't think the catalogging is up to LR levels of complexity
- minor default colour space differences to LR (Some colours seem more natural, others not so), it's not perfect in the same way the others aren't either.
Just thought I'd just mention this before the offer runs out, I don't want to link to anything, as OC sell adobe stuff!
Like all RAW Converters/Workflow solutions, it's not faultless, but it certainly IMO is very much a good choice on VFM for most home/casual users..
I have 120 terribly exposed wedding RAW images that I just couldn't get LR3.5 to get the right results (I'm sure the user is a contributing factor).. Aftershot Pro has actually been more succesful and for my workflow offers slight easier/quicker methods of working with duplicates and multi-viewing images for comparison.
I'd say strengths are
- 'Perfectly Clear' features that can actually work quite reliably, it prevents clipping and maintains accurate colours, doing per-pixel lighting, and it actually works in a lot of cases
- Good set of standard adjustments (as you'd expect)
- Duplicate and side by side working is super simple
- Local adjustments
- Catalog features are not the most comprehensive, but more then adequate for normal catalogging
- Noise Ninja Standard is included, definitely does a good job
- Cheap (Even £79.99 RRP compares well IMO)
- Seemingly very comprehensive Lens/Camera for
Weaknesses (in this first release)
- Sharpening is not that good, Capture ONE Pro is my personal benchmark for that (LR's grain algorithm is not my cup of tea). Obviously I just don't use sharpening at the RAW level so much, I sharpen afterwards depending on the target usage (small prints = more heavy sharpening)
- too much highlight recovery can lead to a white clipping becoming pink, it's easily rectified by dropping highlight recovery and adjusting exposure, but it leads to a little more faffing
- I don't think the catalogging is up to LR levels of complexity
- minor default colour space differences to LR (Some colours seem more natural, others not so), it's not perfect in the same way the others aren't either.
Just thought I'd just mention this before the offer runs out, I don't want to link to anything, as OC sell adobe stuff!
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