What is Photo Mechanic?
Use Photo Mechanic® To View, Organize, Manage, And Export Digital Photos
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.
Benefits of Photo Mechanic:
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.
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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.
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Photo Mechanic has changed my business and allowed me to take on assignments that have opened many doors for me. Thanks to the power of Code Replacements in Photo Mechanic, my processes are automated so that what used to take me days or weeks following a large event is now completely automated. Photo Mechanic is an indispensable part of my toolset.
Jeff Vogan (jeffvoganphotography.com) is a commercial sports and portrait photographer based in Toronto. His clients include world-class organizations and brands such as Golf Canada, Swimming Canada, Diving Plongeon Canada, Skate Canada, Soccer Canada, Lacrosse Canada, NFL, Fox Sports, and Under Armour.
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.
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.
As editor of a popular photography website that receives hundreds of submissions from professional photographers from around the world, I get a unique insight to the equipment and software in current use in the industry. One name that keeps popping up is Photo Mechanic, usually accompanied by the words ‘indispensable’ or ‘game-changing’. I neglected to use Photo Mechanic for my wedding photography work for too long, thinking that a Lightroom Smart Preview workflow was adequately fast… but now I’m a convert too. Speed-wise, it’s just night and day.
Mark Condon is a British-Japanese wedding photographer at Gold Hat Photography based in northern NSW, Australia. He is the founder of Shotkit, a website for learning about photography and the latest equipment.
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, copying, and/or saving images. It’s crazy cool and a program that I can’t live without!
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