![]() ![]() To help you separate the wheat from the chafe, Photo Mechanic has both extensive color coding tools and five star rating systems for your shots. In the end, Photo Mechanic’s main focus is quickly getting images off a flash card, CD, DVD or out of a folder and onto one of its virtual contact sheets where you can start sorting though them, picking winners, and adding captions. (In fact, these changes are only visual since Photo Mechanic prides itself on not altering the original image data in any way, which is another reason it appeals to news photographers.) Sure, there are some very basic tools such as being able to rotate and crop images but these are almost afterthoughts. Leave the editing to the guys back at the desks with the big computer screens.Īnd unlike Lightroom and Aperture which keep adding editing functions, Photo Mechanic isn’t really a photo editor at all. Sports photographers and photo journalists who are the biggest users of Photo Mechanic couldn’t care less however since time is of the essence when covering a news event. The disadvantage with Photo Mechanic is you’ll need to convert those RAW shots later in another program such as Adobe Camera RAW. Meanwhile, Lightroom and Aperture are still chugging away. That’s why when I drop a folder of 2,000 RAWs and JPEGs I shot in Europe on top of a Photo Mechanic contact sheet, the images pop up quicker than I can scan through them. So instead of having to interpret tricky new RAW formats as its rivals do, Photo Mechanic generates quick previews of shots by using a JPEG proxy file embedded in the RAW image. ![]() I learned this a couple of years ago while reviewing an earlier version of Photo Mechanic which, unlike Lightroom and Aperture, is not a RAW image converter, just a photo browser. Of course, this is not really a fair fight. I reviewed Lightroom 3 and Aperture 3 in recent issues of PDN and while I found a lot to like about both those programs, for straight-up speedy viewing of your high-res images (including RAW files), Photo Mechanic 4.6.5 beat them hands down. #Photo mechanic 6 review softwareYes, if you want digital asset management software that’s just flat out fast, this program created by a small Portland Oregon-based company called Camera Bits, clobbers the big boys: Adobe’s Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture. And the winner and still champion is.Photo Mechanic. ![]()
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