All Photo Mechanic Reviews
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Spencer
11 - 50 employees
Used less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
Reviewed May 2023
Culling at the Speed of Light! ⚡️
Sam
Verified reviewer
Design, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2021
Easily the best way to manage RAW files
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.
PROSI 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.
CONSThe 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!
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
Photo Mechanic saves you days in your image editing!
Brilliant from the start. If culling is hard for you - this software will shave off so much time!
PROSI 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!
CONSCan't say anything negative about it. Just love it!
Reasons for switching to Photo Mechanic
Bridge simply can't cope with large numbers of images in one folder and it would take forever to display them all. Photo Mechanic doesn't have this issue (even with super large RAW files that are 50MB+ in size!)
Alexander
Photography, 1 employee
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2021
Photo Mechanic Review
Photo Mechanic is good at working fast compared to lightroom.
CONSSeveral cons about Photo mechanic is that crop tool doesn't show case what would be cropped, and you can't select a specified thumbnail.
Sam
Hospitality, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2021
Working with large amounts of photos? Best way to manage
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.
CONSI 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.
Reason for choosing Photo Mechanic
I had read some reviews of other photographers who used it and recommended it so took the leap and invested the money.
Anna
Photography, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2021
Make your life as a photographer easier
I used to create smart collections in lightroom and then cull within the software. As I upgraded camera bodies and went mirrorless, the files became larger and this took forever and a day. I got Photo Mechanic, and it has saved me hours on hours on culling! It is a photographer's best tool!
CONSI really don't have any complaints about it. It does look a little out dated, but who cares, it works great!
Reasons for switching to Photo Mechanic
Because it was taking so long to cull within Lightroom
luis fernando
Facilities Services, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
Qualidade
Edits very fast and easier for the app and its users
PROSEasy to use and very good for photo and video editing, among others.
CONSWhen paying at the end of the month with a debit or credit card
Reason for choosing Photo Mechanic
For quality and easy to use without errors and ads
Anonymous
10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2022
Photo Mechanic is the king of metadata and lots of images!
It is the BEST software for photojournalists to prep they take for transmission, and works wonderfully with Photoshelter, FTP, etc. for sending jobs to archives or to clients.
PROSIf you are working with lots of EXIF metadata for archive purposes, you want this software. It's been the industry standard for the past twenty years and it is very actively maintained. With the ability to cull and work with thousands of images quickly, it pays for itself in no time.
CONSAsset management. For many years, this was a missing spot from the software. Now they have another version of the software that accomplishes this. They were smart in keeping them separate as users have different needs.
Spencer
Media Production, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2023
Culling at the Speed of Light! ⚡️
It's been a fantastic revelation to the company. It allows us to increase our work capacity and efficiency.
PROSPhoto Mechanic allows my team to cull at the speed of light which is a much quicker and effective way to work through large numbers of files quicker than we could in Lightroom which we use to edit them.
CONSThere are regular glitches in the software that sometimes mean quitting and reopening.
Reasons for switching to Photo Mechanic
Photo Mechanic is much quicker for culling!
Salman
Animation, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
I am Personally using this app
This app for Entertainment only
PROSFusions of This App Is very Good For Everyone
CONSThere is nothing defecult in this app easy to used
Reasons for switching to Photo Mechanic
Becouse this App have more features
Samantha
Verified reviewer
Photography, 1 employee
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
Photo mechanic is my new favorite for culling photos!
Photo mechanic is my new go-to for photo culling. I can go through about a hundred photos in about 4 minutes, rating them for easy export into LR with ratings in place.
PROSI love how fast photo mechanic renders a photo in focus compared to Lightroom. It also allows me to rate photos easily and then export into Lightroom for easy edits after.
CONSThere was a small learning curve, but that really isn't a big deal. The software has a lot of great functions.
Valéria
Photography, 1 employee
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2023
If you are a photographer, you need to use this
How quickly I can choose and transfer photos to my editing program
CONSIt could have features such as "metadata" to view camera model info. It shows only the lens model info.
Vendor Response
Note that you can customize the Metadata that is shown. To show the camera model in the Preview Window, consult this documentation: https://docs.camerabits.com/support/solutions/articles/48001144384-the-preview-window
Replied January 2023
Allison
Photography, 1 employee
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2021
Can now cull galleries in minutes!
I love this software so much! I can cull through a whole session so fast! My images load instantly and it makes my workflow so much better and faster. Couldn't live without it!
CONSWhat I like least about this software is I feel like every time I open it, it tells me an update is available. I feel like I have to update it every single time!
Eliud
Photography, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Photo Mechanic Review
Photo Mechanic is an amazing software that enables me to save time through its fast rendering capabilities compared to the previous software I have been using in the past.
PROSThe software renders previews immediately and makes it easy to go through an entire batch of images super fast. The 1:1 previews are also rendered instantly so it's easy to analyze sharpness and focus.
CONSThe user interface looks outed and is not quite as intuitive.
Anonymous
1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2021
Photo mechanic is a must for photographers
This is a wonderful program that I don't know how I functioned without it! It makes my culling and importing process SO much quicker and seamless.
CONSSometimes my photos have a line or two in them that only shows up in photo mechanic and not in post processing.
Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
This is best software for photo editing
Best experience in all time use
PROSThis is best software for photo editing &pricing to very low
CONSYes ,its very helpfull software in this site So you can download hai excess all images in this software