Photo Mechanic

About Photo Mechanic
Photo Mechanic is designed to help photographers and photo studios view, organize, and manage images on a unified portal. The platform enables businesses to import photos from memory cards and edit and export them in different formats.
Photo Mechanic allows professionals to add metadata information such as credits, keywords, captions, and copyright to avoid unauthorized usage and view, rate, cull, ingest, and organize images stored on external storage devices. It offers a host of features such as custom web galleries, archiving, image comparison, GPS tagging, preview, filters, catalog management, and more. Its batch editing functionality lets professionals tag, copy, delete, rename, resize, watermark, and add metadata to multiple photos.
Photo Mechanic offers file sharing capability, which allows users to share images with internal and external stakeholders using an SMTP email server. Photographers can also upload photos to various websites including Zenfolio, Amazon S3, PhotoShelter, Flickr, Twitter, SmugMug, and more.
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- Industry: Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easily the best way to manage RAW files
Reviewed on 2021/09/28
I've loved using it. I work with a huge amount of RAW photos at a time and it's made the narrowing...
I've loved using it. I work with a huge amount of RAW photos at a time and it's made the narrowing down process exceptionally easy. Saves me hours each week.
Pros
I used to spend a significant amount of time trying to find a specific RAW photo file using the normal mac finder or Lightroom, but Photo Mechanic makes it very easy and loads the files so quickly it amazes me that they're actually RAW files! Hugely speeds up my work flow.
Cons
The way the software updates is a little annoying, and it seems like every other time I open it there's a update! Which means downloading the new version, installing it, etc. Wish this was a simpler process that worked in the background and didnt require you to overwrite the old version... or that it was less frequent!
- Industry: Facilities Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2023/01/04
Edits very fast and easier for the app and its users
Edits very fast and easier for the app and its users
Pros
Easy to use and very good for photo and video editing, among others.
Cons
When paying at the end of the month with a debit or credit card
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PhotoShelter for BrandsReasons for Switching to Photo Mechanic
For quality and easy to use without errors and ads- Industry: Photography
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2021/08/18
Pros
Photo Mechanic is good at working fast compared to lightroom.
Cons
Several cons about Photo mechanic is that crop tool doesn't show case what would be cropped, and you can't select a specified thumbnail.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Photo Mechanic saves you days in your image editing!
Reviewed on 2023/01/19
Brilliant from the start. If culling is hard for you - this software will shave off so much time!
Brilliant from the start. If culling is hard for you - this software will shave off so much time!
Pros
I have used the software for more than 5 years and as soon as I installed it, it shaved off days of my image editing process. As a wedding photographer, you come home with thousands of images and the culling process was the one thing that made the whole thing unbearable - until I found Photo Mechanic. I can now open folders with 1000 images in them and cull them easily by keeping the finger on the keyboard for adding colour flags. Adobe Bridge cannot cope with so many photos and it would take ages (up to 20 minutes) to display all images in the folder - even though I have a powerful iMac! But Photo Mechanic breezes through the amount of data and the culling process now takes hours instead of days!
Cons
Can't say anything negative about it. Just love it!
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Working with large amounts of photos? Best way to manage
Reviewed on 2021/10/29
Pros
I use Photo Mechanic to speed up my workflow by helping me to narrow down large quantities of images, usually in RAW format. This software has shaved hours off of the time it used to take me to do this as it loads RAW photos in milliseconds and allows you to very quickly flag the ones you want to keep. I also love that it's a one off payment, so not another subscription to keep up with.
Cons
I don't think it's that visually appealing compared to other software I use... has a very dated feeling, but honestly as the functionality is flawless I'm happy to overlook this.
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Adobe LightroomReasons for Switching to Photo Mechanic
I had read some reviews of other photographers who used it and recommended it so took the leap and invested the money.Photo Mechanic FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Photo Mechanic.Q. What type of pricing plans does Photo Mechanic offer?
Photo Mechanic offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$139.00/one-time
- Free Trial: Available
It is also available at $229/license with additional features.
Q. Who are the typical users of Photo Mechanic?
Photo Mechanic has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Photo Mechanic support?
Photo Mechanic supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Photo Mechanic support mobile devices?
Photo Mechanic supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Photo Mechanic integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Photo Mechanic has
Q. What level of support does Photo Mechanic offer?
We do not have any information about what support options Photo Mechanic has
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