![]() PM has been asked several times to add an exposure adjustment, but it's always met with a flat "NO". So an image exposed to the right can be too pale to assess properly, and you can't brighten an underexposed image. The first is you can only easily compare two pictures at a time ie zoom them in synch to compare sharpness etc, and that there are no exposure adjustments available. PM has a couple of flaws for me (apart from it being a still maturing DAM). These use a small look up table so, for example, if the exif data has a date in March, PM will add Spring as a keyword.Ħ. This includes "code replacement" values (=sn) in the keyword field that automatically adds keywords for the season (Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter) and orientation (Vertical or Horizontal) from the exif data. But it can be a bit daunting.įor example, I have ingest templates for all the locations I regularly visit that automatically add metadata to XMP files on ingest. You can massively speed up workflow through PMs templates, auto complete, use of variables, code replacement tools and other customisations. You need to learn PM to get the most out of it. Technical support is very good, and very quick (via the forum or the support desk), There are several good videos on Youtube.ĥ. PM/PM+ is very powerful, but has essentially the same, and rather old fashioned, interface that it's had since I started using it 20 years ago. are no smart folders (but you can save searches) and unlike every other DAM I've used, you cannot search by orientation (ie horizontal or vertical, but see below)).Ĥ. The catalogue of PM+ is a great asset for general file management and searching, but it isn't a mature DAM like Neofinder or LR. You can get PM to render these files as DNGs, but it slows down the ingestģ. Cameras that use low quality previews (Olympus and Sony) are at a "slight" disadvantage in terms of assessing image quality when compared to Nikon and Canon (but see below). ![]() So while PM still has many speed advantages, other programs aren't as far behind as they used to be. Now-a-days both LR and C1 adopt the same approach during ingest of using built in previews, but still build full size previews in the background. PM + is all about speed, and it uses the RAW file built in previews, rather than generating previews the way most catalogues work. So, if searching is important, you need PM+, which is identical to PM, but adds cataloging.Ģ. It was brought back by popular demand from PM users even though it's known it doesn't work properly. PM support explained the issue was with Spotlight, and subsequently removed Spotlight searching from PM. With the old PM I never found "all" my files in a search. PM used Spotlight to search metadata, but I found it unusable as you need to open all the folders you want to search, inside PM before searching (slow if you have thousands of photographs) AND spotlight doesn't work properly with XMP files. PM+ is relatively new and adds cataloguing to the original browser only version of PM. Click to expand.Some comments on Photo Mechanic.
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