I’ve been doing lots of testing during the past 48 hours to try and quantify any speed improvements. Most of the functions I use happen instantly, especially when I’m working on a fast SSD or internal Flash storage. But for most of how I use Photo Mechanic, it works faster than I can. Obviously, it makes sense that the 64-bit architecture could lead to performance gains. When I read that Photo Mechanic 6 was going to be faster than version 5, I was surprised. Please give me an option to customize this! While we’re comparing thumbnails, it’s hard for me to overstate how bad I think the 1px border looks on the new version. This is mostly a good thing, however, I would like an option to use a smaller size as the thumbnails get smaller so that I could still view my label entirely. Very cool! Larger Font for Filename & Labels There’s also support for as replacement text. In fact, it’s been improved in version 6 with support for whole words and something called grep, an advanced unix-based command for searching. Fortunately, the Find function is still very much present – just type CMD + F. According to Kirk at CameraBits, the Spotlight search feature has been removed from the menu bar in preparation for the upcoming Photo Mechanic “Plus” version that will incorporate a Catalog feature. While I rarely use it for my wedding work, I know several editorial photographers who rely on the Search features to find photos by Caption or EXIF data. Spotlight Search Removed but Find/Replace Improved So there’s no way to add the “Upload” icon. Sadly we’ve lost the ability to customize the menu bar in the contact sheet. Moving the ‘filter by star rating’ and ‘filter by color’ toggles to the top of the window makes things a little more user-friendly and I’m also happy that the size of the elements has increased slightly. We’ve moved fully into “dark mode” with no option to use the legacy layout. The most noticeable change is in the menu bar at the top of the window. The version 5 icon is laughably bad by comparison. I’ve been starting at the version 5 icon for years, and never noticed the play on the aperture blades. A flatter, more elegant icon looks much more at place in my dock, even if it is inexplicably larger than the other circles. Which brings me to the first thing you’ll notice after upgrading to PhotoMechanic 6 – the redesigned icon. When I see a Photo Mechanic icon in somebody’s dock, it’s a good bet that they know what they’re doing. But here are my first impressions and noticeable changes in Photo Mechanic 6 from version 5. Some of the new features don’t apply to my workflow, so I won’t be covering everything. Some are UI related and some are functional improvements.
The company’s website lists roughly 50 new features.
Photo Mechanic is truly a Swiss Army knife for digital photography workflows.ĬameraBits recently released version 6 of its popular post-processing app. Even with Lightroom, it remains an absolutely vital piece of my workflow for my corporate and wedding photojournalism work. From my college newspaper years, through my internships and staff jobs and my life as a freelancer, I’ve used it to ingest, tag, caption, browse and transmit millions, literally, of images. It seems crazy when I think about it, but I’ve been using Photo Mechanic for nearly 15 years.
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