Photo Mechanic or Lightroom

Richard Brooks

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Hello everyone?
I'm soon to be getting a new windows 10 laptop. Something I purely don't want to overload with gumph but concentrate on it being my point of contact for my photography, especially whilst being out and about.

While I'm out in the open, through one way or another I may want to download my RAW/JPEG images down onto this and start performing any corrections until I get home. I do have the Adobe photography package so was going to continue using lightroom on this machine. However through great reviews and reputation is Photo Mechanic all singing and dancing especially on such a small machine as allegedly its a great starting point before then my main computer takes over?

Does anyone use photo mechanic and could offer words of wisdom please?? Huge Thanks
 
I use Photomechanic it is not all singing and dancing at all. It is a tool for photo journalists. You cannot even alter the contrast or lighten a photo in Photomechanics let alone adjust colours ect. It is not editing softwear and Lightrooom is a completely different thing. If you want to edit photos you dont want Photomechanic. :jimlad:
 
I've been using Photo Mechanic for around 15 years. As shapeshifter said above, PM does not edit photos, it's merely a photo browser (originally designed for photojournalists and sports photographers working to extremely tight deadlines) that is a fast and powerful tool for selecting, captioning and uploading photos.

I use PM for image ingesting, culling, metadata (IPTC caption, copyright info etc.) and simple client web galleries; and Lightroom for post-processing RAW files (plus Photoshop for more complex tasks) and cataloging my images.

LR will do most of what PM can do, just not as fast or efficiently. For me, PM is an extremely useful addition to my workflow, but LR is an essential.
 
As above - Photomechanic is designed to help select images quickly. It's much faster to display previews than LR.
Perfect Browse is similar and cheaper and does star ratings & labels which are honoured by Lightroom
FastStone ImageViewer is similar again and free. It doesn't do star ratings or colour labels but does do some editing - I don't think edits to raw files are preserved in LR though; you'll need to check.

I invariably do my first cull using FastStone, then sometimes move to Perfect Browse to filter further, before importing into LR.
 
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Photo Mechanic or Lightroom?
After giving some time to these and a few more,
I irrevocably opted for Capture One… very happy!
 
Thanks for your time guys, much appreciated. I actually didnt realise PM didn't edit as such on the go but will give this and Firestone go perhaps with the free trail software. If i can get this to work for me while out will help speeding up my workflow bu the time i get home :)
 
Kodiak Qc said:
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Photo Mechanic or Lightroom?
After giving some time to these and a few more,
I irrevocably opted for Capture One… very happy!
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Far better image quality from capture one.

I use PM to sort then Capture One to process.
Unless it's a very special picture then I may use DXO
 
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