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DESCRIPTION
Photo Mechanic is a photographer's image browser tool. It is the answer for professional digital photographers looking for a fast and easy-to-use image browser for digital camera files. Photo Mechanic's innovative batch captioning, renaming, speedy browsing, and Photoshop connectivity features have made it the choice of thousands of photojournalists and professional photographers worldwide. Optimized for use with professional cameras from Nikon, Canon, Olympus and Pentax, Photo Mechanic has become the standard tool for digital image browsing.
Photo Mechanic is a standalone image browser that lets you view your digital photos with convenience and speed. Photo Mechanic displays the "thumbnails" of photos on a camera disk or folder in familiar "contact sheet" display windows. You can quickly rotate, preview, copy, delete, tag, rename, and add caption / keyword (IPTC news record) information to photos both individually and in batches. Photo Mechanic helps you find the best photo amongst several similar shots with its preview display that lets you flip through a group of selected photos at high resolution. Photo Mechanic can then pass the photos you select on to Adobe Photoshop for image retouching.
Photo Mechanic's unique Image Variable technology unleashes the power of metadata. Metadata can be information saved with each photo such as image capture data or IPTC fields, or other information like the current date and time. Standard image capture data like aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and focal length can be accessed through "variables" and tucked-away in any IPTC field such as the caption. You can also use variables representing the current or capture time, date, or frame number, for example, for file renaming purposes. IPTC fields can be extracted using variables for use in renaming - even the filename variable can be placed in an IPTC field. One important variable called the sequence variable can be used for sequential naming or to serialize certain IPTC fields. In all, Photo Mechanic has more than 60 variables that enable customized workflows for captioning and renaming photos. The possibilities are endless!
Photo Mechanic can also print contact sheets and export HTML for web pages. You can control the layout and size of your thumbnails, and even use Photo Mechanic's image variables to customize the text for thumbnail titles and page headers or footers, making Photo Mechanic one of the most flexible tools available for formatting your output.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.6.1: Release notes unavailable at the time this listing was updated.
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| Photo Mechanic User Reviews (19 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 10 2008 |
KEDOS I like the application a lot, but I'd like to be able to access my Canon Rebel from the program. Because Mac OS X doesn't recognize it as an external drive, I have to first open image capture to access pictures from my canon and then import them into photo mechanic. For that reason, I won't be purchasing the program.
(Version 4.5.3.2) | |
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 | Apr 3 2007 |
CHARLES TETON As another reviewer has said, "If you are a digitally based photographer, then you need PhotoMechanic . Period." The fastest viewer, sorter, ftp'er +++ out there... And with fantastic support. If only all software was like this.
(Version 4.4.3.3) | |
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| Apr 28 2006 |
LAZARUS If you are a digitally based photographer, then you need PhotoMechanic . Period. It is the single most useful tool in the market, nothing touches it for professional workflow in terms of organising and accessing images. I started using it about 6 months ago and almost on a daily basis find new ways in which it helps me work faster. The developers are very open to suggestions and respond personally to queries. As for price, well I wish that my $1400 CS2 with fancy bridge could load images for preview as fast as PM. It is instant. jpgs and RAW. my business generates several 1000 images a week and the ability to vet them, rename them and save them to 2 locations as they come off the card, and then burn to CD/DVD (and across multiple discs if needed) all from one app, is so tremendously timesaving. The Email and FTP features are a huge time saver. Clients want images emailed, select them, size them to what ever pixel dimensions and dpi and send them. Done. The zillion ways to catagorise images is so much better than Bridge, its a joke. Sort by any piece of metadata that you like. Great for separating images that are shot on different cameras, but merged and renamed in chronilogical order such as weddings. Want to see what each photog shot? Sort by serial number then. It just goes on. Any claim that PM is not a quality program, comes from the mouths of fools and is simply absurd. If for some reason your camera is not supported, email the devs and let them know. Or get a real camera :-)
(Version 4.4.3b0424) | |
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| Apr 26 2006 |
M85 I own this and GraphicConverter. GC is a great program but isn't set up to ingest, tag the best, or rate on a scale a folder full of images. PM is purpose-built for a professional workflow. There's nothing else in it's class for that.
(Version 4.4.3b0424) | |
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| Nov 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS LOL. Pentax RAW. For you and the one other guy out there who uses a Pentax digital camera.
(Version 4.4) | |
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| Nov 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS As a Mac user, you should be careful with your jokes. Statistically, in a room of 25 people, Mac software support is only important to "you and that other guy who uses a Mac."
(Version 4.4) | |
| Jun 15 2005 |
ANONYMOUS The only one!!! I run through thousands of digital immages every day, super!! Finaly digital immaging is becoming serious.
(Version 4.3.7) | |
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| Jul 22 2005 |
MIKE MESSNER I have a problem when ingesting Olympus Raw files. Some are just not copied!! I look on the compact flash and they are there just overlooked. Has anyone had a simliar experience? It happens on different flash cards. | |
| Jun 15 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I did something stupid: I used the batch rename command of this program that I was still testing without backing up the photos first (was on a trip, limited HD space + time). For some mysterious reason, PM stopped renaming midway, but didn't give me any error message so I didn't know what was going on for a while. But I couldn't find a particular photo I remembered shooting so I went in the folder and discovered about 50 files with weird names like temp00003445.jpg (forgot exact format, but something similar). Judging from other reviews, this bug must not be that common and I'm just unlucky, but I have to rate from my own experience, and I wasted so much time just to figure out what was going on and manually reorganize everything that I pretty much hate this program.
(Version 4.3.7) | |
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| Jun 15 2005 |
ANONYMOUS looks like you used a non legal password. I read in some reviews about this implementation in PhotoMechanic. So either buy it or ask for a legal demo-activation.
(Version 4.3.7) | |
| Jun 19 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I was just using it in demo mode... And if there is such an "security" implementation, it would be a totally messed up way of dealing with piracy and it's hard to believe any developer would be so retarded...
(Version 4.3.7) | |
| Jan 25 2006 |
MAKEA Photomechanic continually malfunctions by randomly deleting my photos if I do any file management (batch rename, copy, ingest). I no longer use the ingest feature as it sometimes works sometimes. It actually fails to copy whole sections of photos when it malfunctions, deleting the uncopied photos. When batch renaming, it sometimes decides to do only half, leaving the directory scatterred with files named ʻTEMPxxxxxxʻ None of the updates have cured my problems. As for the poster that suggested that this erractic behavior is the cause of a pirated serial number, I am running a purchased licensed copy.
(Version 4.4.1b14) | |
| May 22 2005 |
NEIL2112 Good reviews. But I only have one question: is it worth 5 times the price of GraphicConverter? I have a 700Mhz G4 iMac. Is PM that much faster. If it is I'll gladly pay the price.
(Version 4.3.6) | |
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| May 18 2005 |
PETE Well, with OUT any questions this software is very, very EXPENSIVE !!! BUT??? Very, Very GOOD !!! I think probably the BEST there is.........if I will buy it? Well, it depends if I'll be able to "mug" a local bank, just kidding.......
(Version 4.3.6) | |
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| Apr 27 2005 |
ANONYMOUS As a photojournalist working at a big daily and for various wire services I can tell you nothing touches this program. Iphoto's ok for the very casual user, but gives up a hell of a lot of speed and power for it's simplicity. PhotoMechanic tech support is also second to none.
(Version 4.3.5) | |
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