Photo Mechanic is also optimized for those of us who need to caption and work with IPTC and XMP data. Photo Mechanic works great on my 55' 4K monitor and brilliantly on my 27' 5K iMac's ultra-resolution Retina display, using all the pixels and not faking it as Media Pro was doing on the Retina display. May 13, 2019 What is Photo Mechanic for Mac Photo Mechanicis 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 6.0 build 5029 September 28, 2020 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 by Camera Bits has been the world's standard for professional photo sorting software since it came out back in the late 1990s at the dawn of professional digital cameras for news and sports use. I tried it back at the beginning, and preferred iView Media Pro, which until 2019 I used all day, every day, to see what I had shot and pick the winners for publication. Photo Mechanic 6 brings a large number of big and small improvements, including the previously announced 64-bit support, the ability to ingest images from selection, better image caching, full-screen support for Preview and Contact Sheet windows, and reverse geocoding.
The minute you put down the camera, your post-processing workflow begins. The most productive photographers in the world use Photo Mechanic’s powerful features to make managing photos faster and easier. Quickly ingest photos from your memory cards and pick your winners without having to wait.
Use tools originally created for photographers under the world’s most extreme deadlines to add information such as captions, keywords, and copyright to your images as fast as possible. Finally, deliver those images to the world with powerful export features. Photo Mechanic speeds up your workflow, and you take all the credit.
Go from your memory card to working on your best images faster than ever before. Ingest, cull, rate, and organize for a quicker, more efficient workflow.
Let's work together. Photo Mechanic is built to play nice with your other post-processing and creative tools so that you're in control.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but only the embedded metadata counts. Get your images tagged faster with crucial info like credit and copyright to protect your business.
A kind older colleague introduced me to Photo Mechanic back when I was a teenager trying to break in to the world of news photography in New York — he told me that if I could streamline my workflow and file my assignments quickly, I'd always be in demand as a breaking news photojournalist. My workflow has evolved dramatically in the 15 years since, and I no longer photograph breaking news, but Photo Mechanic has remained an irreplaceable part of my process.
Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based between Paris and New York. She is a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, a National Geographic Society grantee, and the founder of Women Photograph, a non-profit working to elevate the voices of women and non-binary visual journalists.
Try it free!Photo Mechanic is an essential software for all photographers, period. I never edit, categorize or handle any images until they have gone through Photo Mechanic ingest process. From inserting IPTC information to organizing thousands of images, it does it all and it does them FAST. Let this be the first software you ever purchase in your photography career.
Try it free!Whether I am editing thousands of pictures from the World Series or dozens of iPhone pictures of my cats, I can’t do my job without Photo Mechanic. Ever since I stopped shooting chrome and switched to digital in 2003 I have been using Photo Mechanic every day on either my desktop or laptop Macs. For editing and captioning on deadline after a ballgame there is nothing better. There is a reason Photo Mechanic has been the industry standard for almost 20 years.
Photo Mechanic is open on my desktop every single day that I’m working. It’s my “go to” program that I use all the time. It’s fast and simple, and absolutely brilliant for culling, applying caption information, and downloading to two different locations at once. The ingesting is fast as it downloads multiple cards at once. I love that I can adjust the size, resolution, rename the image, place a watermark on the image, etc., all while emailing, moving, coping, and/or saving images. It’s crazy cool and a program that I can’t live without!
Try it free!PhotoMechanic saves us hours every time we cull a wedding because we can select images at lightning speed. Now that we use it, we can't imagine our business without it. Our only regret is that we didn't switch over sooner!
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