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28 Photo Mechanic Reviews
The speed. It's a very customizable photo viewer, manager, and inject system. It was designed with photojournalists in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Roadmap on the future with the software. It does 98% of I want it to do, but no one knows what features are coming in the future. I've been on version 5 for several years -- all with bug fixes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Memory card ingestion, with user variables for folder and image naming, meta-tags automated editing, image categorization and culling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Interface could be polished a little more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Photo mechanics allows us to view and mark pictures very efficiently. It helps us choose photos for certain publications and our graphics department can easily find them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Occasionally I have difficulty learning how to do something in Photo Mechanics. It's harder to find the questions by googling, but I eventually figure it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Being able to flip through hundreds or thousands of RAW images with zero delay between images, regardless of resolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Software is slightly dated looking, but it gets the job done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The easy of use makes this program invaluable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I don't like that it doesn't transfer over when I have to do a Time Machine backup. It adds another activation when I reinstall it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
For a long time I heard other photographers raving about Photo Mechanic. I finally downloaded the free trial and culled a wedding using the program. I must have been doing it wrong, because I didn't feel it really saved me any time. Previously I had been culling as I edited in Adobe Lightroom rather than culling the photos and then importing them for editing. It was pretty hard to determine how much time I was spending on culling since it was mixed in with editing. After a friend finally showed me her method of tagging the photos to keep and deleting the rest, I finally realized how amazing Photo Mechanic is. I can now cull a portrait session in 10 minutes or less, and cull an all day wedding in 30 minutes to an hour. Plus, if I need to zoom in on an image to check its sharpness, I don't have to wait for the full image to load. So great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I do feel like the images look less crisp than in Adobe Lightroom. I also felt like it wasn't very intuitive to use the first few times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love that instead of going through all my photos and deleting some, I'm now choosing what to keep in the first place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing I would change about this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
