First I import everything and save in multiple locations, and then I can start the process of editing. My workflow starts when I come home and unload all of my images onto external drives (and backups). Photo Mechanic was a program that wasn’t initially created for wedding photographers but is so useful for us. I don’t think the creators of Photo Mechanic understood how useful it would be for wedding photographers who cull tens of thousands of images a year. In general, I use it to cull images from weddings and engagement shoots. Now I have Photo Mechanic, which is my primary culling tool. Thinking about how much time I lost in those years is painful. While you waited for things to load you’d probably open up Facebook and find yourself distracted for hours, never getting your editing done as fast as possible.
Photo mechanic and lightroom mac#
If you use it, you likely know how deep my love goes for this program because you were probably in my shoes, staring at that Mac rainbow beachball of death as it spins endlessly in front of your computer. It took forever.Īs I transitioned from a part-time photographer who didn’t know anything about time management into the queen of automation, I inevitably came across Photo Mechanic.
Still, I used to spend ages waiting for an image to even render from its thumbnail in Lightroom so that I could do my culling process. Then I got a computer with more memory and Lightroom ran even faster. Eventually, I moved to Lightroom, and that was a little bit faster. Of course, over time I became a better photographer, taking better images in camera that needed less editing. It took forever for images to save and it added hundreds of hours onto a task that should have been as efficient and straightforward as possible. You’d think I was editing with Picasa, but I was actually running Photoshop on that little thing. I was editing on a MacBook Air that had a minimal four gigs of memory. I was sending contracts with physical paper in the mail, waiting for checks, sending DVDs, and taking my sweet time with editing. There was a time as a business owner where I was inefficient.
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