Photo Mechanic Is A Fast Media Browser That Helps You View, Organize, Manage, And Export Digital Photos.
Photo Mechanic Is The Fastest, Most Useful Photo Browser Available
Speed up your workflow with a tool that's logical in operation, intuitive in use, and as fast as possible.
Ingest
Streamline and speed up your copying process with Photo Mechanic's many options to manage your images.
Ingest is the process of copying files from a memory card to your hard drive. Photo Mechanic supercharges this step by automating other tasks at the same time, making your life much easier.
Start Editing Immediately
Don't wait around. See the thumbnails of your images while they're being copied from your memory card. Cull, rate, and tag them as you go. Photo Mechanic is fast!
Browse Files Faster
Go from image to image quickly. Find your keepers faster. Bring only the files you want to keep into your post-processing workflow.
Copy Files From Several Memory Cards Simultaneously
Rename files and folders dynamically, add IPTC credit and keyword information, and make a mirrored backup folder - all in one step!
Live Ingest
If you are shooting tethered, bring in photos with all the features of Ingest on the fly.
Edit
Edit your photos in Photo Mechanic in a flash!
View all of your images, identify your keepers, tag your alternates, and add crucial metadata and never slow down. Photo Mechanic helps you do it fast!
Editing your photos can be a lot of work. Photo Mechanic makes the process of selecting, organizing and adding metadata to your images so much easier. Here are some of the key features that help you get things done more quickly and accurately.
Contact Sheet
The Contact Sheet is the heart of your workflow. See your image thumbnails, edit and organize quickly and efficiently. Photo Mechanic puts you in control.
Move And Rename Files Efficiently
Add capture time to filenames. Create dated folders on the fly. Copy files to multiple destinations at once. Photo Mechanic's file-management tools are incredibly powerful.
View Photos At Full Size
Zoom up to 800% to check for critical sharpness. Quickly toggle between viewing the JPEG preview or the Raw file.
Variables
Automatically add EXIF camera data to your images like focal length, serial number, or ISO to metadata fields like captions or keywords.
Keywords
Sometimes you need more than one keyword to describe (and find) an image. Photo Mechanic helps you add keywords in many ways. Structured Keyword lists allow you to add related keywords fast.
Code Replacements
Save time typing long complex text with Code Replacements. A few keystrokes can add entire sentences to your captions.
GPS Coordinates
Geotag your photos by easily applying your saved GPS tracking logs to your photos with Photo Mechanic.
Batch Editing
Work faster when you copy, delete, tag, watermark, rename, resize, and add IPTC metadata to lots of photos at once.
Adjust Capture Dates And Times
Take photos from multiple cameras and get them synchronized to the correct date and time. This is great for wedding photographers with second shooters.
Pick The Best Of The Bunch
View and compare images side by side, horizontally or vertically. Spot differences between images that are too subtle to see when viewing one at a time, or simply pick between two top choices.
Export
Easily export photos your way with Photo Mechanic.
When you're done processing your images, you want to share them with clients, fans, and the world. See all the ways Photo Mechanic can speed that up for you.
Get your photos where they need to be, fast. Create web galleries, print contact sheets, send photos to your clients via email. Upload your images directly to popular online services without having to save multiple copies.
Create Galleries
Show off your images by creating web galleries. Choose from a wide variety of dynamic, pre-made gallery templates to make your images pop!
Send Files Fast
Photo Mechanic works with your default e-mail app to send files as attachments. Perfect for getting images to clients fast.
Archive
Archive your images by burning them to CDs or DVDs straight from Photo Mechanic without having to go into Finder or Explorer.
Upload To The Web
Use Photo Mechanic to directly and quickly upload to sites like PhotoShelter, DF Studio, Amazon S3, ExposureManager, Flickr, Gallery 2, PhotoDeck, and SmugMug. Add watermarks and copyright info without saving separate images.
Whats New
• Fixed: Crash with MOV and MPG4 files that don't have mdat blocks.
• Fixed: Improper display of some Chinese characters.
• Fixed: Copy and Paste shortcuts do not work when renaming from Contact Sheet.
