Hi ,
If there's one photo program that I've used every single day in my digital photography life, it's Photo Mechanic. Not only is it the world's fastest image browser, Photo Mechanic is a very efficient photo management solution for adding captions, keywords, sorting, rating, tagging, moving, saving, adding watermarks and uploading
images. It's been the center of my workflow for almost 15 years and I find it to be an absolutely indispensable tool.
it also handles RAW+JPEG files seamlessly, and renders full size RAW image previews with blazing speed. The only thing it doesn't do is process photos, but you can easily send photos to an external editing program like Luminar or Photoshop. And up until now, it technically wasn't a cataloging program, although it could be used like one.
Adding comprehensive search tools, saved searches, powerful filters, multiple catalogs and collections, Photo Mechanic Plus gives you almost everything you need to manage your entire digital photography life, with no subscriptions. The only thing you'd need on top is an external editor, like Luminar, Affinity Photo, Photoshop or any other standalone program.
I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am about this. As soon as I heard about the new version, I immediately downloaded it and proceeded to upload my entire 200,000 image catalog into Photo Mechanic Plus over the weekend without a single hiccup, delay, freeze or crash, and now it's running
with absolutely no issues.
The latest version of Photo Mechanic even has an option where you can convert RAW files to DNG and retain all of your existing Lightroom/Photoshop edits. I know this will be a huge boon to many photographers.
If you're looking to get away from Lightroom, a viable path is finally here. Or if you simply want an awesome, full featured photography management system, I cannot recommend Photo Mechanic highly enough. Check out the free demo, and if you like what you see, you can grab the new version at a special introductory price.
