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A photo that I want to include in my portfolio. 5 star – One of the best photos I've ever taken.Were kicking off an Intro to Photo Mechanic webinar in about 5 minutes.

#Photo mechanic 5 professional

4 star – A photo that I consider worthy of being published. Get free, professional account and technical support for Photo Mechanic.

3 star – Might be an okay photo if I can do some work in Lightroom and Photoshop.

2 star – It's at least a visible and not completely blurry photo, but it's not great at all.

These are photos that are so badly exposed that they can't even be seen, where I bumped the shutter button and took a picture of my foot, etc. Upgrades from qualified prior versions are just 109. Can be deleted if I ever need to clear off space. Photo Mechanic 6 is now 169 for a new license.

Jim's Star Rating System for Culling Images The best way to learn about how much time Photo Mechanic will save is to try it. You now have the imported and culled photos in Lightroom for editing. Photo Mechanic is used by photographers around the world to save time and hit crucial deadlines.Drag and drop all the selected photos from Photo Mechanic onto the Lightroom icon. Its the best 150 you will ever spend if you do anything at all with photography.Do Control (Command) A to select all of the photos.Flip through the photos with ease and rate the pictures by pressing Control (Or Command on the Mac) and a number key 1-5 to give each photo a star rating.

#Photo mechanic 5 full

The photos will import like LIGHTNING! I imported 100 raw photos and had full screen previews in under 9 seconds.

As a metadata automation tool IPTC, EXIF and XMP can be added using image variables to increase productivity and save time editing.

#Photo mechanic 5 software

Open Photo Mechanic and choose File > Ingest (It's their word for import. Photo Mechanic, fast image browser software at the center of your workflow.Put your SD card in the computer or card reader.Then you pass all the photos to Lightroom to continue the edit. Then use Photo Mechanic for only tagging and star rating your photos. The idea is that you import the photos from your SD card to the computer using Photo Mechanic. I've never been won over by Photo Mechanic because it costs $150 and I was concerned that it would mess up my workflow too much, but I've actually found it to be a very easy addition to my workflow. It's simply a companion app that does fast culling (sorting through photos from a shoot). Photo Mechanic is not an editing app, so it's not a replacement for Lightroom or Photoshop. Photo Mechanic is a third party app that is primarily used by professional sports and event photographers who want to quickly import, tag, and rate photos. I've been testing out this workflow and I've actually found it to be extremely fast and simple. Dozens of you wrote back and asked how photographers can use Photo Mechanic together with Lightroom for the fastest possible workflow. Last week I published a video on the Improve Photography Youtube Channel showing that Lightroom import is 600% slower than other competitive programs.