Bibble Plugins

Index

Color Popper

User Interface

Color Popper interface

Introduction

Color Popper is an easy to use Bibble plugin which allows you to change the color levels in an image without altering the exposure and contrast. It works by changing the contrast of the a and the b channels in CIELAB color space.

Documentation

Changing the R / G slider will alter the reds and the greens. Altering the B / Y slider will do the same for the blue's and the yellows.

Before

Before Color Popper

After

After Color Popper

It is also possible to remove color instead of popping them by setting the sliders all the way back to -100. This will result in a black and white picture.

Download

Download: Color Popper 0.9 (For windows, Linux and Mac)

Contact

mmzeeman@xs4all.nl

Contrast Control

User Interface

Contrast Control Interface

Introduction

Constrast Control is a plugin for the raw workflow tool Bibble.

History

In my search for a good smooth spline formula for use in the spectrum plugin I stumbled on the research work of Mark Grundland and others. I was curious how one of the ideas would work in practive, so I implemented the Contrast Control plugin, which is based on the "Interactive Contrast Enhancement by Histogram Warping" technique. The plugin works really well. At that point I decided to make I'm surprised how easy it is to alter the appearance of an image. It can be used to lighten and soften the skin tone in portraits. Give the clouds in the sky a little extra. Open up shadows, and more.

Documentation

If you have a good example of what can be done with contrast control, don't hesitate to contact me.

Example 1

Original,
shot for the hightlights

Original

Improved Version, no
saturation compensation.

Adapted, without saturation compensation

Final Version, with
saturation compensation

Artis

This example shows the effect of saturation compensation. The original image was shot for the highlights. By setting just the shadow slider to 1.83, and the highlights to -0.81, the image is improved without blowing the hightlights. The colors are now a bit washed out. Enabeling saturation compensation will compensate this. It will compensate saturation changes caused by the modification of the lightness in the image.

Example 2

Before: Enabled Tony and B&W plugin
set to Red versus Green & Blue

Before

Enabled visualization,
which helps to locate the right area.

m-mz-20070316-P3160029_4

Increased contrast at the
tone of the rose leaves.

Red Roses

Another Example

Before

Before

Enabled Visualization

Enabled Visualization

Result

Waddenzee

This set of pictures shows the Wadden Sea at low tide. (Follow link if you want to see some stunning Google Earth satellite images of the area. The area looks really special from above.)

The emptiness of the area can really grab me from time to time. Especially when rain-showers in the distance color the sky in such a way that it blends the sky and the sea. As you see its a very low contrast shot. When I got home I almost threw the image away as I was a bit disappointed about it (As a beginner I still have a lot to learn.). But, when I started working on the contrast control plugin I re-discovered it, and used it as a test-case.

The clouds at the top, and the muddy area in front can really use some extra contrast. When visualization is turned on you can easily locate the tone for which you want to change the contrast. In this case I enabled two contrast-points. One to take care of the clouds, and one for the middle gray muddy area in front. Moving the tone slider back and forth will make it easy to locate the tone which you want to change the contrast off.

If you have located the tone, you can disable visualization, and use the contrast slider to alter the contrast around that tone. Note that the tone itself will not become lighter or darker. You will just change the contrast around the selected contrast point. If you increase the contrast it will bring out more details so it stands out more. Lowering contrast will hide details. (also nice for skin tones in portraits).

Download

Download: Contrast Control 1.1 (For Windows, Linux and Mac)
Changes:
Added saturation compensation slider. This feature compensates changes in saturation caused by changes in lightness. It will keep the original saturation level. This really helps for big changes in shadow areas.

Previous Versions:
Contrast Control 1.0 (For windows, Linux and Mac)
Contrast Control 0.8 (For windows, Linux and Mac)

Legal

Contrast Control is provided free of charge. Contrast Control is copyright 2007 by Maas-Maarten Zeeman, all rights reserved.

Contact

mmzeeman@xs4all.nl

References

Interactive Contrast Enhancement by Histogram Warping
Mark Grundland and Neil A. Dodgson
International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (Warsaw, Poland, 22-24 September 2004)
Computational Imaging and Vision, vol. 32, pp. 832-838, Springer. ISBN 1-4020-4178-0.

Spectrum

User Interface

Spectrum Interface

Digital photo's allow for more easy manipulation of e.g tonality and color balance. With the help of Bibble it is easy to make the picture darker or lighter. Alter the black,- and whitepoint of an image, change the tonality with a curve. Usually these digital image manipulations are direct translations of already existing darkroom techniques.

With digital photo's it is possible to extend the set of techniques furter. Digital image manipulation makes it possible to more easily manipulate colors than what was possible with traditional chemical based color photography.

Traditional systems for color photography hover lacked more control over the color dimensions of an image. Yes, it is possible to change to color balance, but it is hard to get full control over the color appearance in an image. The reason for this is that it is almost impossible to do with traditional chemicals in a darkroom.

Digital photo's can be thought of as large number of different colors. These colors can be placed into a so called 3D "Uniform Color Space" called CIE L*a*b. This color space has white positioned at the top, and black at the bottom. On this straight line from top to bottom you can find all grays. The points here do not have a color. Around this line lie all colors. The more further away a point is from the gray axis, the more colorfull it looks.

The distance from the white - black axis is called, the "Chroma" dimension. With the Spectrum plugin it is possible to manipulate this feature. The Spectrum plugin has 12 sliders. Each slider controls how much the chroma component of a color falling into a section of the color space will be altered. This is also called a chroma curve. This allows one to e.g. make yellow parts more yellow without touching other colors, or the tonality of the image.

Examples

Watch this space. I'm working on some examples.

Download

Download: Spectrum 1.0 (For windows, Linux and Mac)

Donate

If you like the Spectrum plugin, or if it benefitted you in some way, please consider making a small contribution. It will be highly appreciated.

Legal

Spectrum is provided free of charge. Spectrum is copyright 2007 by Maas-Maarten Zeeman, all rights reserved.

Contact

mmzeeman@xs4all.nl

Memo

User Interface

Memo Interface

Memo is a plugin which allows you to attach notes to photo's. This can be handy if you work on an image, and want to remember what point was used for "Click White Balance", or what line in the image was used to staighten the image.

Memo doesn't do any image processing, it just keeps memo's.

Legal

Memo is provided free of charge. Memo is copyright 2007 by Maas-Maarten Zeeman, all rights reserved.

Download

Download: Memo 1.1 (For windows, Linux and Mac)

Previous Version:
Memo 1.0 (For windows, Linux and Mac)

Contact

mmzeeman@xs4all.nl

Photoshop Curve -> Bibble Curve Converter

This small python script can convert a saved Photoshop curve into a Bibble curve. After conversion you can load the Photoshop curve into Bibble.

Usage: acv2bch.py <ps-curve-1.acv> <ps-curve-2.acv> ...

You will find files named ps-curve-1.bch, ps-curve-2.acv in the same directory.

With this script I converted the curves found in the article Curves and films by Petteri Sulonen. You might want to look at some of his other articles too.

The Bibble versions of the curves written about in the article can be downloaded here. Please note that these curves are licensed by Petteri Sulonen under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

Currently I have just the python script for download. If there are enough requests I can make a windows executable available.

Download: acv2bch.py

References

The Adobe Photoshop file format description was found here.

Bibble Plugins Developed by Others

Sean Puckett has created a lot of very useful Bibble plugins.

Alex van Boxel created LumaLab (sorry the link is dead), a Black and White plug-in. Unfortunately it is not compatible with the latest Bibble releases.