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Photo Mechanic vs. Adobe Camera Raw
Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 2:49 PM on 01.02.06 |
->> I have read a lot of the info on Photo Mechanic and have finally downloaded the demo and used it a little. It actually saved me a lot of time by being able to re-adjust the time settings on my second shooters images which were 12 hours out of synch (gotta watch that AM PM stuff).
But I thought I would ask how many of you use the features in Photo Mechanic as opposed to doing many of the same things in Adobe Camera Raw, Extensis or iView.
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Michael Hickey, Photographer
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Kokomo | IN | United States | Posted: 3:00 PM on 01.02.06 |
| ->> Photo Mechanic is not a RAW processing application that's the biggest thing. |
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Cameron Davidson, Photographer
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Arlington | VA | USA | Posted: 6:08 PM on 01.02.06 |
->> Photo Mechanic is GREAT for editing, renaming, adding keywords, captions and adding your ITPC data to a file. The beauty of Photo Mechanic is: you can do all of that while you ingest - plus create simple and very fast web sites that convert your raw or jpeg files to satanicRGB on the fly. PLUS - email or FTP images from your selects. I email images with PM all the time.
It is (IMO) the absolute best program for renaming and adding keywords - yes - you can do it in Bridge or iView - but it takes more steps and sidecar files (although you can annotate with iView).
It is a killer tool. Well worth the money - plus Kirk Baker - one of the software engineers is a reader of the PM forum on the Rob Galbraith site and he is very quick to respond to suggestions and questions.
It really is a must have program in my book. |
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Greg Ferguson, Photographer
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Scottsdale | Az | USA | Posted: 6:56 PM on 01.02.06 |
->> Kirk frequents SS, though he isn't a member. You'll find he responds to threads here via email in the background.
A more appropriate comparison to ACR is Bibble (http://www.bibblelabs.com). The RAW conversion is impressive = I'm testing it right now and, though it isn't as polished, the converted RAW files look better than what I was getting from ACR.
The Mac version of Bibble isn't Mac-like in a lot of ways - they haven't followed Apple's Human-Interface Guidelines, but then again PhotoMechanic hasn't done as well as Adobe either. |
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Chuong Doan, Photographer
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 6:24 AM on 01.03.06 |
->> But I thought I would ask how many of you use the features in Photo Mechanic as opposed to doing many of the same things in Adobe Camera Raw, Extensis or iView.
Photo mechanic is so darn fast for captioning...much faster than doing it in photoshop. It also has very flexible renaming functionality, and is a great FTP client.
My workflow starts in Photomechanic where I do shot selection from the raw take. When I have the keepers selected, I switched to a filtered view in photo mechanic and launch photoshop from there. I shoot RAW, so I do image adjustments in Photoshop, then resize and export as JPEG to my transmit folder. Once I've tweaked all of my shots, I caption, rename and transmit everything using photo mechanic. It's a very zippy workflow. I like it because it breaks up the task into similar chunks - shot selection, image care (cropping/etc), captioning/transmit. |
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Primoz Jeroncic, Photographer
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Kranj | SI | Slovenia | Posted: 9:30 AM on 01.03.06 |
->> I don't have anything but praise for Photo mechanic, and especially their support. It does what it's suppose to do, and it does it fast. Yeah it's not raw converter, and it doesn't have tools Photoshop has, but it's not meant for that anyway. At least not in my eyes.
Personally I use PM for ingesting, captioning, renaming, selecting, and sometimes I even transfer photos with it. I tried quite few programs like that, but not even one was half so fast as PM. |
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