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New Photo Mechanic 4.6 (Public Beta)
Ed Wolfstein, Photographer, Assistant
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Burlington | VT | USA | Posted: 8:16 AM on 01.27.09 |
->> Lots of new features - and if you're an AP shooter, you'll love a new section there as well. Another cool feature is the ability to zoom in on an image directly in the Contact Sheet without having to open the Preview. Pretty stable too (not a huge infrastructure change from 4.5) - I've been testing a week or so with no crashes or hangs. Also, you can install it separately from your current version, so if you feel uneasy about using a beta on deadline, you can also use your current version.
Here's the link with ALL the features - just too many to describe here:
http://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=3763.msg16914#msg16914
Cheers!
- Ed. |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | US | Posted: 11:04 AM on 01.27.09 |
->> Kirk and the Camera Bits crew have done a really great job with this release...
I love the new loupe tool!!!
Delane |
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 3:59 PM on 01.27.09 |
| ->> i like all of the new possible places to upload, zen, exposure manager, smugmug, etc... |
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Christopher Rossi, Photographer
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Olney | MD | United States | Posted: 5:06 PM on 01.27.09 |
| ->> When I try to run the beta it asks me to register. Doesn't a public beta not need a serial? |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | US | Posted: 5:18 PM on 01.27.09 |
| ->> I had to get a passowrd from Kirk...but I'm not sure why. |
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Robert Longhitano, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philadelphia | PA | USA | Posted: 5:39 PM on 01.27.09 |
| ->> Some people on the PM board want some sort of image adjusting feature. Am I alone in thinking this should be Photoshop's job and by adding that it will slow things down?? This program is lightning fast for ingesting, captioning and image selection. Why turn it into a bloated POS |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 5:51 PM on 01.27.09 |
->> I agree with Robert - PM is great for what it does and it doesn't need a lot of bloat.
About the only tweak I would love to see is to add rotation capability to the existing crop function so you can level shots. That's the only thing I find myself really wanting on a regular basis.
As far as adjustments/etc. there are already a bazillion programs that can do those functions. We don't need another. |
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Al Goldis, Photographer
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East Lansing | MI | USA | Posted: 6:45 PM on 01.27.09 |
->> To some extent I felt the same way even about FTP. Sure, FTP built in to PM is nice but there is no shortage of capable stand-alone FTP programs.
If an extra feature can be added without negatively affecting performance of PM's core features, i.e. slowing down previews, captioning, etc., and without significantly increasing either memory requirements or price then great.
I would love to not have to buy Photoshop, instead getting those features from a blazing fast $150 copy of Photo Mechanic. But I seriously doubt there's any way to keep the size and price down and the speed up by giving Photo Mechanic many of Photoshop's abilities. |
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Thomas Quinn, Photographer
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Valparaiso | IN | USA | Posted: 7:39 PM on 01.27.09 |
| ->> I would second the call of rotation to the crop. I also find myself going into photoshop to rotate the crop a tinge and then save it out to go back into PM and upload. |
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Greg Ferguson, Photographer
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Scottsdale | Az | USA | Posted: 8:18 PM on 01.27.09 |
->> I'll second/third the comments and concerns about bloat.
There are several FTP clients that are a WHOLE lot more capable than what's in PM, and wiring PM to take advantage of them would have been preferable. I write a lot of code, and my ftp clients launch my editor(s) of choice and automatically sync source to remote systems seamlessly and transparently.
One of the hard things about any business is knowing when to say no. In software you have to start with a vision of the program in its initial form and then where it is going to go in the future, then very carefully weigh suggestions for additional features, otherwise what started as a thoroughbred racing horse ends up looking like a burro pulling a peddler's cart.
Lean and mean and able to integrate with other apps that do something else better is the way to go. |
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Luke Sharrett, Student/Intern
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Norfolk | VA | United States | Posted: 8:35 PM on 01.27.09 |
| ->> I won't try the Beta of anything until i've read one of Phil's rants about it. ;^) |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | US | Posted: 8:42 PM on 01.27.09 |
| ->> Classic Luke. Classic. |
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