A plug-in for the camera RAW image processing program Bibble.
Author: Sean Puckett (seanmpuckett@gmail.com).

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What does Flip do?

Flip is retired, perhaps temporarily, perhaps permanently.

Flip is a settings scratchpad that allows you to save up to five sets of image settings -- as if you had a clipboard with five different pages. Once you have settings saved in Flip, you can Flip between them very quickly -- great for comparing variations on an image. You can also paste settings from any Flip "page" onto any Bibble image (or group of images) -- great for transferring settings you like.

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If you find Flip useful, please consider purchasing one of my PRO plug-ins as a thank-you!
Windows, Linux and Mac versions included in the same download. Read the Flip Release Notes, then access the download area.
You'll find installation instructions as INSTALL.txt in the zipfile.
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Caveat

Flip does things it probably shouldn't do, and may (but probably won't) cause problems with Bibble and/or your workflow. If you experience any odd Bibble behaviour, remove Flip from your system and see if the problem goes away.

Please remember that Flip is unsupported software and that you use it at your own risk. Thank you.

User Interface

Flip is a small, comparatively simple plug-in. It is most useful when you either leave it floating on top of your work area, or give it its own tool tray so that it is always visible. If you use Cammy, you'll find that Flip associates well with it.

Copy Buttons

Flip 0.9 Screenshot Info

There are five copy buttons, labeled Alpha, Bravo, Charli, Delta and Echo. (These names are just generic titles chosen to make it a little easier to remember which setting went where.) When you click a copy button, all image settings that Flip listens to are copied to a scratchpad.

Paste Buttons

The five paste buttons, labeled the same as the Copy buttons, paste the settings stored on that named scratchpad to the current image (or images, if more than one is selected -- be careful!). The screen updates immediately.

Settings Group

When you click a paste button, only the settings in the selected groups are pasted. The four groups, and the settings they include, are:

Exp (Exposure)

Includes Siggy, Fill Light, Highlight Recovery, Autolevels and Perfectly Clear.

Clr (Colour)

Includes Huey, Sadie, Gina, and Bibble's Color and Color Filter settings.

Shrp (Sharpness and Noise)

Includes Sharpie, Noise Ninja, and the Sharpen and Noise tabs.

B/W (Black and White Tools)

Includes Andy, Tony, and BBlackAndWhite plug-ins.

? Button

Displays the version number and name of the plug-in, and the homepage.

Notes

What is it good for?

What the heck is the point of Flip?

Comparing settings on one image

Flip is very useful when you have an image with which you want to experiment with variations. Use the Copy:Alpha button to record the original image settings. Make changes, then use the Copy:Bravo, etc buttons to record the changed settings. Then, Flip back and forth with the Paste:Alpha and Paste:Bravo buttons to compare. If you make additional changes, be sure to Copy them again, or Flip won't remember them.

Moving settings from one image to others

You can use Bibble's clipboard tools to manage this to some degree, but plug-in settings are all grouped in the "other" category. Flip breaks them down into four different groups, so you can (for example) just transfer the black-and-white settings from one image to another.

Gotchas

Flip is kinda tricky, and may not operate entirely intuitively. For example:

All images share the scratchpads

Unlike almost all other Bibble settings, Flip's scratchpad pages are shared among all images. If you copy from Image 1, then Paste to image 2, your settings from image 1 will indeed be pasted.

Scratchpads are not saved between sessions

Flip's scratchpads are stored in memory only, and are empty when you restart Bibble.

I'm doing things I shouldn't do, so if Flip crashes Bibble... don't use Flip.

Plug-ins really shouldn't be messing with Bibble native settings the way Flip does. I'm guessing about a lot of things and taking some chances with bugs and compatibility issues in order to provide a tool I think is very valuable. Flip works okay for me. If it doesn't work for you, or causes problems in your workflow, don't use it!!

Curves aren't supported

The curve settings can't be altered by a plug-in -- Bibble crashes if I try. I'm sorry about this, I really wanted to copy/paste the curves, but it simply isn't possible.

There's still no "undo"

You can use Flip to save the settings of an image to try variations and easily return to where you left off -- if the settings you change are settings Flip records -- but if you have multiple images selected, Flip only copies the settings from one of them. And if you paste onto multiple images, there's no way of going back.

Whitebalance isn't copied/pasted either

I chose not to include this intentionally to keep Flip simpler. Use Bibble's tools to manage White Balance and everything else Flip doesn't do.

Flip doesn't automatically record your changes

You have to click Copy in order to be able to Paste.

When I designed Flip, I needed to choose between "radio stations", where you would be able to Flip between alternates with each alternate automatically tracking your changes, or to use a more traditional clipboard that requires an intentional Copy step. I chose the clipboard option -- as something familiar to most people, less liable to create confusion given the restricted UI I can present, and providing the ability to transfer settings to other images.