Photo Mechanic
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Photo Mechanic is a standalone image browser and workflow accelerator that lets you view your digital photos with convenience and speed. Photo Mechanic displays your "thumbnails" in a familiar "contact sheet" display window. Photo Mechanic helps you find the best photo amongst several similar shots in a preview display that lets you flip through a group of selected photos at high resolution.
Photo Mechanic's super fast browsing enables you to quickly compare multiple images and select the best ones from a sequence. Its strong batch processing, full support for image variables, IPTC and Exif meta-data, make it the perfect tool for any digital photographer.
Photo Mechanic sets out to be the most useful Photo Browser on the market today. It does this by being logical in operation, intuitive in use and, most importantly of all, performing its functions as quickly as possible.
The other less obvious approach is that Photo Mechanic does not try to be all things to all people. Photo Mechanic is all about efficiently and quickly moving new files onto your computer and then letting you view and edit those images as quickly as possible. Photo Mechanic is flexible and unobtrusive so that you can get on with your work without having to wait for your computer to catch up or to work its way through background operations you may not need.
The basic concept of Photo Mechanic is simple. Point the Navigator to a folder and Photo Mechanic will generate thumbnails of all the images contained in that folder. Right away you can start previewing the files individually at full screen and mark them with various levels of 'keepability'.
Right from within Photo Mechanic you can open into Photoshop for editing or RAW processing, you can email custom sized JPEGs to a client, you can export to a web page gallery, you can rename all the files and add IPTC copyright data, or all of the above and more.
Photo Mechanic is not an image editor, it is not a RAW processor and it is not a cataloging application. Photo Mechanic is about importing images, and then viewing and organizing them as quickly and efficiently as possible. By concentrating on these core tasks it aims to be the best at what it does.
Photo Mechanic Features:
1. Fast Sort - Photo Mechanic helps you quickly find your best shots. The multi-threaded architecture works in the background to keep ahead of you. Images appear blazingly fast. You can view your originals full screen, compare similar shots side by side, delete the bad shots, tag photos while watching a slide show, and sort your keepers into multiple folders.
2. Fast Workflow - Read the images from the card, flatten the file hierarchy, apply IPTC stationery (city, state, photographers name, copyright, etc.), create a backup on a separate disk, open a contact sheet ? all in one step. Work with batches of photos to: rename; assign captions & keywords; print contact sheets and proofs; create web pages; resize & email photos.
3. Configure it your way - Put image meta-data to work to customize your results. Do you want to include shutter speed, aperture and caption information with your prints or web page (and sometimes the date and city, but never the time)? Rename files by photographer & state? Sort photos by city? Automatically convert the color profile for web photos so they look their best and stay small? You choose. Configure your own preferences or stay with the friendly defaults.
Registration for Photo Mechanic is quick and simple. When you have downloaded the program and installed it you will be prompted by this screen when you launch the software. Your Password will be emailed to you at the time you pay for the full license. Simply fill in the details and enter the password. Using Cut and Paste works well here and avoids typing mistakes - make sure you don't include any spaces or extra characters when you do this.
The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $150.00, you can free download and get a free trial.

