Photo Mechanic 6-The Complete Guide
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- The Complete Guide on how to use Photo Mechanic 6. I cover the entire program but focus on ingest, variables, culling or tagging, iptc, ftp, and code replacement. This is the full tutorial. If you would like to watch the three shorter videos I will add the links below.
Time Stamps for the video!
Culling 17:40:31
IPTC & Code Replacement 25:29:26
Video 1 Ingest: • Photo Mechanic 6-Ingest
Video 2 Culling: • Photo Mechanic 6-Culling
Video 3 Code Replacement: • Photo Mechanic 6 Every...
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Thanks for the in-depth look into the product, very helpful.
Excellent tutoriel M. Whitehead. Thank you!
Great video! Thanks.
Excellent, thank you!
This is fantastic!
John, One of the best instructional vids I've seen to date on Photomechaic 6. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
great videos
holy wow was this helpful thank you so much
Glad you enjoyed it.
Subscribed! 👍
Great Video !
Thanks!
Great tutorial...honestly LOVE IT! Thank you for doing it. Question: When you double click on the photo (it enlarges on the screen). I have little thumbnails on the left hand side and I have NO IDEA how to get rid of them. Secondly, you have a window with data on the right, how do I get that? THANKS!
Thanks. To remove the thumbnails, there is a skinny divider. You should see something that looks like an equal sign but pointed up and down. Slide the divider to the left to hide the window. If you are missing the one on the right, slide the divider to the left. Wish I could add photos. Hope this helps.
Awesome
Great video Can you explain how to move pictures in the contact sheet. I am trying to put the photos in a specific order to get a work flow. I thought maybe the slide show would do it but I can't seem to figure out how to move the images around.
Order is dependent on the sort. There are a variety of different types of sorting options. I don't think you can place them in order. You could rename them like 1, 2, 3, etc to make it work for you . I use culling or the colors to sort my images but I never need them in a specific order.
thank you
You're welcome
Thanks John. This was a really helpful video. What brought me here was that I'm totally new to Photomechanic 6. I ingested a collection of photos from lots of different places and photo shoots, and most of them got the wrong IPTC info. How do I batch process change them to the correct information? So far Photomechanic is incredibly fast and easy to use. But it has a learning curve.
Hit Ingest which is cmd or ctrl G. Click the Metadata IPTC Template. Fill out what you want it to say. Open a folder select all the images. Go to Image/and select Apply Metadata IPTC Template to photos. That will change everything.
@@Jcwphoto That’s exactly what I wanted to know, merci beaucoup!
Hi John, Great video. I'm thinking of getting Photo Mechanic 6. I'm wondering can you drag and drop photos around the contact sheet to an order that you want your client to see and then renumber before exporting? This is how I work in Adobe Bridge. Thanks
Typically the minute I posted I found the solution. Click Arrangement in the Capture time drop down menu. This software is pretty epic!
Overall the video was useful. The section on variables was particularly useful. I would have liked to begin with an overview of how PM works at an architectural level and how it relates to the Lightroom architecture. From the video it appears that PM adds the maximum value when you are Photoshop centric.
Photo Mechanic has been around much longer the Lightroom. They are totally different programs on a variety of levels.
Hi, and first of all thanks for all the time you put in making these videos! I would like to ask, and hopefully you could find the time answering me... I use Capture One and Lightroom to develop my pictures, but I prefer doing the crop within PM6. Do you know how to make these programs recognize PM's crop? Thanks ahead, and have a wonderful day!
Sorry i have never used capture one.
@@Jcwphoto thanks for your reply! What about other software, like lightroom (etc)?
After you crop in PM make sure view cropped image is selected. It worked for me that way. I don't actually crop in PM.
@@Jcwphoto once again, thanks for your time replying me! Just found out it works with photoshop (even when the view-function isn’t activated), but still didn't succeed to make it work C1 or Lr.. Once again, thanks & wishing you success with your channel.
This is my first day using PM 6 and I'm not certain it's the right program, although your video is outstanding! I have over 20,000 photos many of them dupes as Apple kept merging my photo libraries. What I want to do is eliminate the duplicates (I tried Gemini but it didn't get anywhere close to all the dupes), delete the shots I don't want to keep, and put the rest into either a "catalog" or a folder. Am I in the right place?
It does not do that. Lr is best for duplicates.
Great videos. Do you have a video where after you've culled in PM to export into Lightroom?
No, that would not really make sense. You can cull or tag in lightroom. Just that the import process is really slow. Most people would send from PM6 to Adobe Photoshop. Raw files would open up in Adobe Camera Raw. ACR is exactly the same as the Lightroom develope module. If you have a .jpg file once in Photoshop you can go filter/camera raw in you will be in ACR. Hope that helps.
@@Jcwphoto I shoot weddings so I desire to cull in PM then take my selects to LR for toning and batch editing then PS if need for final retouching.
@@rodneyturnerphoto You can do that but it would be an extra step. You have to import the photos into lightroom no matter what. You can cull in Lightroom just like photo mechanic but the import process is slower. I would either use lightroom then Photoshop or PM and ACR to Photoshop.
@@Jcwphoto Thanks
I go straight from PM to Lightroom. Once you have your selects highlighted just drag them onto the Lightroom icon in the dock and they import ready for retouching. Easy Peasy. No need for Photoshop in the workflow.
Thanx for a great video. Is it possible to add more than 8 Color Classes? If yes, how?
I don’t think you can
@@Jcwphoto Thanx anyway
How do you save to desk top on a mac. All I have on my desk top is a bunch of files with flower icons on and when you click on them it won't open to an image?
What type of file. I am not sure about the flower icon. You saved to the desktop just like you would save anywhere else there’s no difference.
help. i have 1000s of pics on my pc in photo folders. how do i AUTOmatically add those unique folder names to the photo EXIF after the fact (because i'm upload to google photos and want to create albums based on those folder names)...thank you. (no sidecars....just adding info to the exif)
I am not positive what you are asking. Are these Raw files, jpg or what? There isn't an actual folder field in the metadata. If you have photoshop and open your image by using the path, File/File Info. those are you field options. If you are using raw files most programs with change the side .xmp file. If you are using .jpg file. You can just click on the "i" and type in a field and it will automatically save to the .jpg file. You can save a template and apply it to all the image that folder.
When I go into the preferences, launching and choose Lightroom for assign default application, it says. "Images cannot be sent to Lightroom this way. Please drag and drop your selected images onto the Lightroom application icon in the Dock." do you know why it won't let me select a default application? Any ideas?
Yes you can’t use Lightroom because you are already in Lightroom. That would be for launching into another application other than Lightroom. For instance if you want to send images from Lightroom to Photoshop you would select Photoshop in that location. If you are just working in Lightroom leave it as is no need to select anything
Question, does photomechanic automatically save your work? I’m simply tagging my favorites before I put them into Lightroom but don’t want to exit and lose all of my tags or organization. Thanks!
If they are raw files it saves the info in the .xmp file automatically. Truthfully, if you are using Lightroom, I would not use Photo Mechanic. Photo Mechanic is a browser like Bridge is a Browser. Lightroom has a browser built in. I would just do the process of tagging/culluing in Lightroom instead. Lightroom is slower than PM but if you use Lightroom you have to catalog no matter what. If you use PM I would open the image in Photoshop. If it is a RAW file it will open in Adobe Camera Raw first. All RAW files need to be converted in a RAW processor. The develop module in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw are exactly the same, they just look different. Hope this helps.
I have lightroom how do I set up colour management
For RAW files it gets applied when exporting. Goto preference/external editing and set the appropriate color space and info. Otherwise for other files apply it at export under File/Export
Why arent we able to tag multiple images at the same time? For example, I shoot bracketed photos of 5. So i have 5 images that make up for one image and Id rather select all five at once and tag them.
You can just shift click if the are in a row or cmd or crtl click to select multiple
@@Jcwphoto that doesnt work for me but after hours of research i found that you can select a few images and hit command and + or _.
When I ingest my ?images they download as tabs at the top rather than showing the thumbnails in the contact sheet. Can you help me?
It is hard to say. I have never seen that. This is one of those things that if I had a screen shot to see what you are doing it would help me isolate the issue. I created a FB group just for this. facebook.com/groups/learnadobephotoshopandlightroom
Is there a way to send different file types to different folders?
Not automated but you can sort by file type, select all those files, and this use copy/move in FIle
What website you get the code replacement for the linups of all pro sports
www.codereplacements.com
Sport shooter used to have info but the site is down now. I make my own for health care institutions.
Will it export RAW files to another application or does it always convert the RAW file on export?
Not really sure what you are asking. You can export a RAW file fro PM to any app that can handle or edit raw files. You just need to select them in the preferences. You can also use SAVE AS to export to jpg, png or tiff.
Can I open more than one file at a time in Photoshop ?
Yes, Just select multiple using Cmd or ctrl or shift click methods and hit cmd or ctrl E
Hi John. Have a quick question. When I do my culling on PM it´s creating a sidecare the xmp I think? Can it be embedded or the culling wont be respected if I drag them to Capture One? What I would love is to do my Culling on PM but once I import them to C1 I see the culling but without generating sidecars or whatever. Is it possible?
Yes, it creates an .xmp file. You can't overwrite a raw file. Any metadata or raw editing changes to a raw file are stored in the .xmp You can delete the .xmp it won't hurt anything but any rating, labeling and metadata you have done in the culling process will be lost. It is just the way the process works. It isn't specific to PM but to RAW.
@@Jcwphoto Thanks so much! :). I understand now. Let ask you something. If I do my rating in PM then upload the folder to C1, and take the rating off there and re rate them inside c1, and erase the xmp then I will have the same ratings just made on c1 based on what I did in PM, right? Another q. If it´s a Raw thing why when I do my rating on C1 why I don´t see any lose xmps?
You should need to erase what you did in PM. Capture one can read .xmp. I a pretty sure C1 by default stores the info in the catalog(which I hate) You can change the preferences to have it create an .xmp file if you like. Don't overthink the process. Figure out what works for you and stick to that. I like .xmp better that cataloging because you can move the files from location to location and never lose that metadata.
@@Jcwphoto So basically the only way to have C1 read my culling and rating would be to keep the xmp right?
if u import or add photos into Lightroom does Lightroom metadata over write photosmechanic metadata..
If you tell it too. Not sure why you would ever use both together.
I have used Lightroom for years. I bought a new camera and the photo guy at the store talked about Photo Mechanic and I am thinking about trying. I was told that Lightroom erases 10% of my info when I import and Photomechanical keeps all the info?
Do you know if this is true?
Only if you convert to .dng. It does not erase it slightly compresses the file. That would not be a reason to not use LR in my opinion. However, i do like PM much better.
how can I search a specific location?
I would need more information. For what.
Edit 1 photo, E will do. Edit multiple images CMD+E
What don't you like about converting to DNG? Thanks
I don't dislike DNG. Adobe came out with .dng because the wanted everyone to convert to a universal file type. Canon and Nikon never followed. If DNG was a superior to cr2 or nef I would use it. It just seem pointless to convert from one raw to another. .dng is compressed a bit more and you save space but not enough to make it worth the time.
A photo zoomed in PhotoMechanic is much sharper than zooming in from LR. Do you know why that is?
Probably depends on how you are rendering in both programs.
How do we hide the XMP thumbnails showing up in the viewer?
Ingest, digest and excrete means import, process and export?
Move the xmp files to new location. I don’t understand the second question.
@@Jcwphoto , I suppose I was making sense of the terminology.
Ingest instead of import sounds biological-themed terminology.
As for the XMPs, I started deleting them.
@@seamuswarren I didn’t make up the terminology. If you don’t lime it call it what you call it doesn’t matter. Deleteing xmps is a mistake. I really don’t understand why anyone has an issue. Shoot jpg instead of raw and they will disappear.
Problem: I have a folder with a batch of pictures. In Photo Mechanic I select some of them with a color, then I make a sequence and my choices are all saved in my "arrangement". Now, with the same batch/folder, I would like to try a different sequence. And then again one more, different, but always with the same starting batch/folder. BIG QUESTION: Is it possible to save something like a "snapshot" of each sequence so I can recall each one and compare them on a fly? Or do I have to re-save + rename each, making copies of the same photos over and over in different folders to see my different selection/arrangements of them? Thanks!
Couldn’t you take a screenshot
@@Jcwphoto Thanks for the quick reply! A screenshot is good idea and effective indeed, but a bit a of workaround. It would have been useful - in particular in case of a batch of many pictures- if with one click I could rearrange the selection according to "snapshot #1" "snapshot #2" or "snapshot #3", etc. This would avoid to go back and forth from Photo Mechanic to the screenshot to fix the batch according to my final decision.
@@caimipiccinni_2694 yeah sorry i am not aware if a way to do that. You can duplicate the files in three different folders and try each way. I know that is not what you want but it is never anything i have run into.
@@Jcwphoto Yes, I also tried to find a solution, but probably the only ways to do different selection of the same batch of photos are the ones you point out. Maybe in the next versions of Photo Mechanic... Many thanks. :)
Hi John
Is “Ingesting” a necessary first step? Can I use Photo Mechanic to cull and copy from the SD Card? Just plug in the card, tag the photos I want to keep with a colour, filter view by that tag and then just select all and copy straight over to my Project Folder? The reason I’d prefer to do it this way is because I don't like the idea of saving to my HD and taking up space and/or I don't want to be constantly writing to, erasing, and writing over the same partition on my HD over and over again. I just want to cull and copy straight from the SD Card.
Thanks for your help :)
Yes, you can do it. It will be slow but less reliable. I would suggest a dedicated external hard drive. As long as you keep the .xmp files with the raw files everything would work fine.
@@Jcwphoto Cool, thanks for that. What exactly is the dedicated external hard drive for and what are the .xmp files? Is .xmp the file extension Photo Mechanics uses?
The external drive would be to work off of instead of your sd card. All culling and adjustments are saved in the .xmp file. Here is a Lightroom video I talk about .xmp. ua-cam.com/video/fvcjYsJjB5w/v-deo.html
@@Jcwphoto Hi, sorry, still don't get it - Why would I be working off an external drive? Basically I just want to use Photo Mechanic as a combo image previewer and file explorer. A way to quickly view what's on the SD card, see and tag the good images from the bad, then filter so I can select all on just the tagged/good images and copy them to where I'm actually going to work on them on my hard drive. So if Photo Mechanic can let me do just that why would I need an external hard drive?
Above you said you don't like the idea of writing to your hard drive, plus so many images will quickly fill up your local drive. This is why I suggested an external drive. You are better off off working on a hard drive. I work off and ssd. An SD card is not made to work off of. They are the weak links in the process. However, you can do what you said above, it will work. My suggestion would be to import, cull(tag the ones you like) then you can easily select all the one you don't like and remove them. The is a quicker and safer process. Either way will work.
Is there a free text editor to use to make code replacments? I was using text wrangler but it is no longer supported for use with my mac book pro.
If you are on a mac just use text edit. should be on your mac already. Otherwise Open Office is open source. Just use a plain text document.
@@Jcwphoto
I have text edit l cant seem to save it as the correct format any ideas..?
Yes, under format drop down to make plain text.
@@Jcwphoto all good John l worked it out cheers. 👍
Good morning! For some reason my number are not able to rate a selected photo. Any help would be appreciated
I am not sure. You have to select an image first. Try the manual way. go to Images/set color class of image.
@@Jcwphoto John thanks for your update. I called support a few days ago for help. They sent me to Accessibility and change Single Key for Color Class from 0-5
to 0-8. It fixed the problem. Again thanks for the Video and follow up!!!!!
Does anyone know if PM6 runs on the new MacBook with M1 chip (so called Apple Silicon)?
Call camera bits but Rosetta 2 should be able to emulate it.
Last time when they changed from power pc to Intel this worked, so I would expect any issues.
Can you update with 6 Plus? Thanks
I don’t have it and do not want to use it. I hate cataloging features. Sorry
Cataloging is the main reason I don't use Lightroom. I take too many images and constantly move them. This process screws up cataloging. I would love to make a video but I am not sponsored by PM so I would have to purchase it. Also I would need a separate computer for the videos which does not makes sense. I would check camera bits website for info.
@@Jcwphoto interesting, I am debating to use PM plus or not.
how can I position my watermark
When you select Save As. Click on watermarking and there is position under Image logo. Click the box where you want the logo to be. You can also select the scale and opacity.
Hi John, i have a question... I using two cameras in the same time on a wedding day, so I have two (or even more) different folders. how can I sort the photos in capture time from the different folders? can you please help me? Thank you Franci. pd. the video is great, I am going to make few settings like metatags, copywrite etc. Thank you
You can't from different folders. I would put all the images in one folder and soft by capture time. I never put images from the same event in different folders. There isn't anything wrong with different folders I just feel it complicates the process.
@@Jcwphoto Hi John, thank you for your quick answer. I have a Nikon z6 and have to use Nikon transfer... that's why I have different folder. but I am going to try it, if I put them only in one and then sort in PM. Thank you !!!
Put the different folders into a new folder then right-click the new folder and select "Open folder and subfolders in new contact sheet"
@@petermanning you don’t have to use a program. Just do it in you finder window manually the open it in PM
@@Jcwphoto you said it wasn't possible,
I would really like to use this program. The only problem is that I purchased Photo Mechanic Plus. I have never used this program in any type of format prior to getting it now. Plus, every video i've searched, everyone is using an Apple product. I've never owned an Apple product, I only use Windows. None of the videos give a clear indication on how to use this product on a Windows computer. Plus, none of the setups they pull up look the same. Most of the videos are between 2 or 3 years old. I did find a video that was nine months old, but it had nothing to do with how to set this product onto a Windows computer. Can anyone help? Can anyone help me out?
Contact camera bits for windows installation. Plus uses cataloging which i hate. Otherwise it should be similar
Thanks.
Would FTP be helpful for content creators?
Yes i love ftp but organizations do not like give outside access.
@@Jcwphoto So is FTP mainly just for sports photographers so they can get photos on the web right away? Or would it be helpful for wedding photographers/content creators as well even just to back up photos right away while traveling or to post online to help with SEO? Can't decide if I should start using it or not. I have never heard of it until your tutorial!
It is was mainly used in the editorial/journalism world. That is really what PM was designed for. You could use it to back up online to something like a NAS. Do you have a NAS or a website you can even setup ftp? It really would not help with SEO. Usually to post to the web you would use CMS these days. It used to be popular to upload images to the web. It really depends what you are using to build the site. FTP is a possibility, but there are other options depending on other factors. Uploading to a cloud might work as well.
@@Jcwphoto I have a Wordpress website! I will be traveling for the next few months and was wondering if it would be possible to just back up online through FTP and only bring 1 or 2 hard drives with me to save on space. Thanks for answering my questions so quickly! It was a great tutorial.
Good tutorial, however, for beginners you did not cover the next important step, how to get your tagged pictures into Lightroom, other than that, it was very good, thanks
Well that is because it would be an illogical process. Lightroom already has an integrated browser and the ability to tag images. The process for PM would be to send straight to Adobe Camera Raw which is the same as the Lightroom develop module and then to Photoshop.
@@Jcwphoto Still many people adopt workflow of PM to LR. Simply because of the speed. Especially for a wedding photographer with a need to handle thousands of photos. And not all photos require LR for RAW processing.
@@Jcwphoto When you transfer the images to Lightroom Classic does it not keep the information?
WHAT?! I'm sitting here listening to this guy saying "this is how I have this set, this is how I have this set" over and over again....
Yeah , great, but WHY? What do any of those options do that you're glossing over?
Gave up at 2:56, there must be something better than this out there.