Camera Bits Photo Mechanic 6
Editing It’s possible to specify the editing software in which images will open when ‘Edit Photos’ is selected. However, with Capture One, you need to move images to a folder and then create a Session or Catalogue
Price: $139 (approx £100) OPERATING SYSTEM: Mac/Windows
Lightroom is an excellent software package that combines both asset management and image editing, but many photographers are unhappy with Adobe’s subscription model and are turning to alternatives. Photo Mechanic from Camera Bits offers the image management tools that many professional photographers and news agencies require and it can be paired with an image editing software package such as Capture One or Affinity Photo to meet all their requirements.
Photo Mechanic comes into action as soon as you insert a memory card into a card reader connected to your computer, popping up with the ‘Ingest’ control panel to facilitate downloading images to your computer or a connected drive. This allows you to select aspects such as the destination for storing the files as well as a secondary storage location to give you an automatic back-up. There’s also the option to apply a metadata template to your images as they are imported so that you can add important information such as the shoot location, image rights and ownership data, the names of any people in the images and any key words that you want to include.