Shadows also can be recovered in Bibble by the Fill light tool. It selectively adjusts exposure in the darkest area of the image. You can use it to balance exposure in high dynamic range scenes. Small to medium values work best. Note though that it may increase noise if used in deep shadows.

Fill light 0

Fill light 0,5

Fill light 1

Fill light 2

Fill light 2,5

Bibble uses Curves tool for color range adjustments and gives a possibility to adjust color channels separately which is nice. The Curves palette contains three eyedroppers for white, black and grey spots reminding of Levels. Another interesting feature is the possibility to compare before and after histograms (but not the images).
The last version of Bibble Pro has also Chromatic Aberration correction and corrections of Lens and Vignetting that only have been present in Adobe Camera Raw so far.

Noise Ninja

Bible has another tool working with the converter – the built-in Picture Code Noise Ninja plug-in. The built in, free version has limited performance. It’s possible to obtain a licensed version as well, that can work both as a plug-in or a standalone. Here we tested just the unlicensed tool on a high ISO (1600) image and it worked well enough. As most nonprofessional cameras are in this ISO range the majority of people would perfectly do without the extra capabilities of the full licensed Noise Ninja.

Noise Ninja is off	Noise Ninja is on

Spot healing

In Bibble Pro you can heal the spots of the image that are not needed there. It looks very much like Photoshop Healing brush but can be applied to a raw file. In the example below I did not concentrate much in achieving the perfect result – removing the yellow line on the wall, just tried the tool. You can see the work of it all right: the blurred circles are clearly visible on the textured wall.

When working with this tool I also noticed another inconvenient feature of Bibble – the way it works with cursors. Many tools have their own cursors and it is not enough to be in this tool palette, you also have to choose the appropriate cursor from the top panel with pictograms. I find this highly inconvenient – not once I happened to click the image with the White Balance picker while being in some other tab, the result being a funny colored picture and me, first pressing Ctrl+Z a couple of times and then looking for the Bibble white balance panel to uncheck the “New WB” box.

Black and White plug-in

It’s another uniquely Bibble’s tool giving you a possibility of creating special effects. It’s not so much about raw conversion as about editing, but Bibble allows the application of the tool to raw files.