Once a week I upload some of my favorite images to my Zenfolio gallery and I also back up the images on external drives. Once edited, images are sent back to the desktop and after that I put them into various folders and after that share them or not, as I choose. I use PhotoMechanic when I've got a bunch of images to sort through, it makes the culling process go quickly, but if I've only got a few I just take the images directly into DXO PhotoLab 5 and look through them there and choose what I want to edit. The files on the memory card are copied and go right to the desktop when the card is in the card reader.
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I like to keep things simple and also under my control, so I do not ingest my images into any software program. PM doesn't have those tools aside from cropping, and if you go to and read their pages about what PM does, you will see them using the word "edit" in this traditional, accurate sense. Over the past few years, people outside of the professional photography world have been misusing the word "edit" to mean changing a photo's appearance. Everything I do after that (adjusting color, brightness, cropping, etc.) is post-processing. I'm a photo editor and I'm using the word in its true sense, the way the word "edit" has been used in photography for years - to select images for publication.
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You can get a free trial version of PM at, and if the price is more than what you want to pay, there's also XnView MP which is almost a copycat of PM.ĮDIT for clarification: When I say I use PM for "editing," I'm not talking about changing the appearance of photos, using Instagram filters, etc. So I'm not sure what you are really looking for in a DAM app. So if you are happy with having your files stored/archived in folders, and doing the work yourself, it's a gem.īut it is not a database. It helps to move/copy/export files to specific folders that you create. Photo Mechanic will apply searchable metadata to image files, for example.
Only after I've used PM do I do my post processing.īut the answer to your question really depends on what you mean by organizing. I run all of my images through Photo Mechanic for editing/batch renaming/batch metadata application, etc. It's user friendly, powerful, fast and it does as much or as little as you want. I wholeheartedly agree with on Photo Mechanic.
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