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You can visit PhotoMechanic to learn more and download a 20 day demo here.The long awaited Photo Mechanic 6 has now been released and I have been using it extensively for the past week. If you have to regularly import and sort through thousands of images then this program will save you unbelievable amounts of time.

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Photo Mechanic is an essential program that no professional photographer should be without. When designing an album it’s the perfect tool to use to look through finished images, and drag them into InDesign.The rename function makes it easy to rename large amounts of images quickly.When you’re on a photo you can press E, to quickly edit it in Photoshop.Upload photos to web space, export web galleries, burn to disc, batch convert from RAW to DNG and much more.Photo Mechanic is capable to doing quite a bit more than I’ve described. This arrangement between two separate programs (one for browsing and one for editing) massively increases productivity. Once you’ve sorted out your favorites and imported them into Lightroom, it’s a much easier task processing them all because you know they are all the selects. Stay focused on one task at a time to be most efficient and effective. And because you can’t edit anything directly in Photo Mechanic you’re not tempted to constantly adjust photos to see how they would look. You can import and sort much faster in Photo Mechanic than with Lightroom. It’s also worth mentioning how important it is that sorting be a separate process from editing.

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(You can also sort photos by capture time, file name, camera serial #, rating (obviously!) and a variety of other useful parameters) When you’re dealing with a task that needs a lot of back and fourth viewing (like sorting!) it’s absolutely essential that you’re using a program that can keep up – otherwise you’re wasting precious time! The thumbnail strip is also useful in showing the photo in relation to other photos (for easy comparison with right/left arrow movements) This is the view we do most of our sorting in since we can quickly see a large view of the whole image.

Here you can zoom in further, rate images from this view as well.

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The above screenshot shows the full image preview (press Z or space bar to get this preview). You can adjust the thumbnails to make them larger or smaller, rate images, or even quickly zoom in on images in this view. The above screenshot shows Photo Mechanic in thumbnail view. Photo Mechanic is fast and snappy all the while.

You can rate it (1-5 stars, or color code) and press the right or left arrow keys to navigate to the previous or next image.

Press Z to zoom in on an image to check for focus or expressions.

Browse through the folder in thumbnail view or double click an image (or press space bar) to see a full size preview.

Photo Mechanic takes seconds to load a folder with thousands of RAW images.

We’re able to sort through thousands of photos quickly and easily. This is where Photo Mechanic really stands apart from a program like Bridge or Lightroom. The word “Ingest” threw me off a couple times, when I first started using the program.

Tip: You import photos in Photo Mechanic by selecting File->Ingest.

If you have two photos with the file name IMG_2389 one will become IMG_2389a. Photo Mechanic will automatically append an “a” to duplicate file names. Say you’re shooting with two cameras and both are creating photos with the same file number.

Another awesome feature is that Photo Mechanic will automatically rename files with the same file number on import.

You can also select primary and secondary locations to have the files uploaded to (automatically backed up).

Photo Mechanic allows us to import from multiple card readers simultaneously! We plug in 4 Lexar firewire 800 card readers and are able to download whole weddings and portrait sessions with incredible speed.

For the most efficient workflow, this is where Photo Mechanic comes in. You might be thinking “But I can do all that in Bridge, or Lightroom etc.”, but the real trick of the matter is using the right tool for the job. The highly overlooked other half of this equation is uploading, sorting and browsing. Obviously one side of this equation is processing and editing your images. The faster you can deal with those photos the more productive and profitable you will be.

Being a professional portrait or wedding photographer means that you’re going to be dealing with a lot of photos.