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PhotoMechanic 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.

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.

Get it nowMark CondonAs 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.

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Plug in your memory cards and start picking winners and deleting rejects almost instantaneously. Move from image to image without that annoying rendering delay. Add dynamic caption, copyright, and keyword information individually or in batches. Upload images to online galleries or image services in a flash. Photo Mechanic is the ultimate file and metadata management tool.

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.

Geotag your photos by easily applying your saved GPS tracking logs to your photos with Photo Mechanic. Now, in Photo Mechanic 6: Use GPS data to automatically add city, state and country names to your metadata!

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.

Use Photo Mechanic to directly and quickly upload to sites like PhotoShelter, Zenfolio, Amazon S3, Flickr, SmugMug, and more. Resize, add watermarks, and copyright info without saving separate images.

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!

Whatever your terminology for it, the process of culling, editing or selecting photos can be very time consuming. Choosing images takes time, but one's choice of software can have a huge effect on speed as well.

When you need to edit images quickly, there's only once choice: Photo Mechanic. In this article, I'll dive into why ever photographer working in events and when fast delivery is essential should be using Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits..

Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits is custom made to make selections as quickly as possible and this precisely what I use it for. There are other functions of the app where it excels, such as metadata and ITCP data, but my favorite use is with editing.

The most compelling reason to use Photo Mechanic over Lightroom is that it is much faster at loading images. Lightroom's default is create its own preview image for every single file. This takes processing power as well as time.

Any user of Lightroom is familiar with importing a set of images and starting to edit. When you go from one image to the next, there's a noticeable delay. The reason for this is that Lightroom is rendering it's own image preview from the RAW data.

Photo Mechanic, on the other hand, uses the built in JPG of the RAW file to create its previews. As a result, images load instantaneously. When going through images in sequence quickly, this speed is essential for an efficient workflow.

This difference means that you can load folders of images in Photo Mechanic without needing to save a catalogue file. It also makes browsing images fast, whether you're looking through existing folders or using the software to ingest or download images.

Since I'm only importing selects to Lightroom, my Lightroom catalogues are streamlined and more efficient. So long as I've done a proper image selection, there's very little need to have any images I won't be editing in my LR catalogue.

Another reason I love Photo Mechanic is for the more sophisticated ingest options. With Lightroom, the options are simple. You can ignore suspected duplicate files, tweak basic preview options, keyword and apply a preset.

The feature of Photo Mechanic downloading protected and locked images is low key one of the ultimate workflow hacks I can share with you. I learned this from my friend Brad Moore, who is a fantastic music photographer. Nikon cameras like the Nikon Z 9 have included image protection buttons as a default, dedicated UI option. The reason for this is to easily and quickly lock images against deletion while reviewing in camera.

However, the ability to protect images in this manner also dovetails perfectly as a workflow solution to flag images for editing. Whether a photographer does this for an independent photo editor or themselves, being able to lock images while photographing has become an essential part of my workflow.

Photo Mechanic's ability to download protected images first is truly a game changer. While I'm photographing, I naturally review images anyway. Protecting images in camera is extremely quick and adds only a very small amount of time to something I'm already doing. The benefit of essentially doing a first round edit in-camera and then having those images download first is one of the best things you can do to speed up your workflow.

Using this image protection/Photo Mechanic workflow, I can very quickly do a second and third round of selects. Often, I'm done with my final edit before the memory card is finished downloading. Then, I'm able to quickly process images, export, deliver and get back out shooting in a matter of minutes.

When people lament the time it takes culling or editing photos, my very first suggestion is to start using Photo Mechanic. Camera Bits has created software that is custom made to speed your photography workflow for selecting images to process.

If you're working on tight deadlines doing same night edits for clients, Photo Mechanic is for you. For any kind of high volume photography where tight deadlines are essential, you need this software. From tour photography to sports, festival media teams to photojournalism, this is software that will dramatically speed up your workflow.

I have zero affiliation with Camera Bits or Photo Mechanic other than loving their software, by the way. I simply love this software. It's saved me untold hours and days in the decade I've been using it.

ishootshows.com is the blog of music photographer Todd Owyoung. Started in 2007 as a personal blog, the site has turned into a resource for music photographers that includes articles on how to get started in the world of concert photography, technical articles and general photography advice.

This streamlined workflow saves me valuable time and effort and enhances the client experience by providing quick and easy access to the needed images. In a fast-paced industry where efficiency is critical, Photo Mechanic Plus proves to be an invaluable tool for photographers seeking to optimize their workflow and deliver exceptional results.

In conclusion, while Adobe Lightroom remains a powerful tool for editing and organizing images, its limitations in post-editing tasks and client delivery make it less than ideal for photographers who demand efficiency and flexibility in their workflows. Photo Mechanic Plus fills this gap admirably, offering a comprehensive solution for seamlessly archiving, searching, and sharing images. If you want to take your photography workflow to the next level, Photo Mechanic Plus is undoubtedly worth exploring.

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