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The Color Tool Tab contains the following image adjustment tools focused on total color control.
Curves
The Curves tool in Bibble 5 is an intelligent combination of standard Curves and Levels tools found in many image editing programs, and includes the following controls:
| • | Apply Curves: Enable or disable the Curves tool |
| • | RGB Dropdown: Allows selecting of individual color channels, or the combined RGB mode |
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| • | Before / After Dropdown: Switches the display from showing the histogram before curve adjustments are applied, or after adjustments are applied |
| • | Left White Arrow: Sets the input 255 (white) point. Dragging this arrow down the side of the curve tool with uniformly shift the histogram left, making the image darker. |
| • | Bottom White Arrow: Sets the output 255 (white) point. Dragging this to the left will brighten your image, but can clip highlight details. |
| • | Left Black Arrow: Sets the input 0 (black) point. Dragging this arrow down the side of the curve tool with uniformly shift the histogram left, making the image darker. |
| • | Bottom Black Arrow: Sets the output 0 (black) point. Dragging this to the right will deepen the shadows, and can clip shadow detail. |
| • | Bottom Grey Arrow: Sets the output 128 (gray) point. Dragging this to the right will shift the midtones to higher values, brightening the image, while moving left will darken the image. |
| • | Click inside the Curve Tool: Click inside the curve tool itself to set or adjust the curve. Set multiple points and drag to fine-tune your tone control. |
| • | Auto-Contrast: Clicking this button sets the output white and black points based on image content. It uses the Auto-Levels Highlight and Shadow values to perform a one-time adjustment to increase contrast similar to what Auto-levels does. The main difference between this tool and Auto-Levels is that the output white and black values may be more easily adjusted that the Auto-level values. |
| • |  Click Black, Grey, White: Click one of these icons, then click within your image Preview Panel to set the Black, Grey, or White point to the values of the pixel you click |
| • |  Reset All / Reset Current: The first icon resets all curve values to a flat curve. The second resets only the current R/G/B channel. |
Color Correction
The Color Correction tool allows you to adjust your image selectively based on the colors found in your image. The top twelve buttons are Color Well's that selects the color that will be adjusted by the settings. The first six buttons are pre-set to the Primary and Secondary colors. The second set of Color Wells can be set to any color you choose. Bibble 5 Pro offers 6 custom color well; Bibble 5 Lite offers 1.
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To pick a color as the starting point for a color correction, follow these steps:
| 1. | Click on any of the adjustable Color Wells  not yet assigned to a color (white Wells in the second row) |
| 2. | Click the Color Picker  icon, which will open the Color Picker tool. Click anywhere within your image to select that color as an adjustment color. |
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| 2. | Click the Color Well  shown to the left of the Color Picker. This will open a color selector window where you can pick any color as your adjustment color. |
Once your starting color has been selected, you can adjust the Hue, Saturation, or Luminance of that color within your image. Only the color you've selected will be adjusted.
Range controls how close or far colors in your image need to be to the color you have selected in order to be adjusted by this tool. A small range will only adjust colors very close to your selected color, while a large range will adjust a larger portion of your image.
Below is an example of an image showing selective saturation added to the sky. The image on the left is the original, showing where the Color Picker was set. The image on the right shows the same image after selecting the color shows on the left and setting Saturation to 100.
 Example: Selective Color Correction
Color Balance
This tools controls the color balance applied to the .
| • | Cyan/Red and Magenta/Green and Yellow/Blue controls will shift the color along the color axis for that control. |
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| • | Saturation - Adjusts the intensity of the colors in the image. High saturation settings boost colors and provide rich, vivid color. Low saturation settings produce pastel and more muted colors. |
| • | Vibrance - Applies a more mild version of Saturation, that performs a more gentle correction to skin and other portions of images that are already richly saturated. |
| • | Hue - Changes the colors in an image, rotating the "color wheel" by the amount indicated by the slider. For example, if the Hue slider is set to 60, then6 is added to the original Hues in your image, so greens become cyan, blues become magenta, and reds become yellow. See the color wheel below for a visualization of this. |
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| • | HSL / HSV - Chooses between correcting images in HSL (Hue / Saturation / Luminance) and HSV (Hue / Saturation / Value) color spaces. |
White Balance
Selects among several pre-set white balance settings as well as "As-shot," "Click-White," and "Custom."
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Different light sources have different characteristics or warmth that effects how objects appear to you camera. White Balance control allows you to adjust the overall color in the image, ensuring that colors are accurately reproduced in your photographs. You can select a White Balance Preset like Sunny, Shady, Tungsten, or Flash, or you can "Click-White" to select a neutrally colored object in your image (something that should appear as a neutral grey) which will adjust all the colors in your image to make the point that you clicked neutrally colored.
To click-white, first switch to the White Balance Cursor by clicking on the eye-dropper  icon on the Basic Adjustment panel or on the Bibble Toolbar. Then, click inside the Preview Panel on the image you want to adjust. Clicking different spots will result in different corrections. The ideal place to click is on a neutral grey that is not over-exposed (pure white) or under-exposed (pure-black).
After clicking to find an initial white balance, you may adjust this with the Temp or tint slider to achieve perfect white-balance.
Color Management - Pro Only
This tool controls the color management mode applied to the .
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| • | Color Mgmt - Enables Color Management when set to 'ICC Profiled'. Switching this to 'None - Linear' will still apply color management, but leaves the image in a linear color space. |
| • | Working Space - Sets the working space for the selected image |
See the section on Color Management for additional details. For Bibble 5 Lite, the working space is always set to ProPhoto RGB.
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