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Photo Mechanic is a front-end photo browsing tool by Portland, Oregon-based company Camera Bits. Retailing at approximately $150, it is targeted for the professional photographer market.

While Photo Mechanic has basic support for trivial image edits, such as crops, it is meant to be used in concert with a dedicated photo editing program, such as Adobe Photoshop, and a back-end cataloging tool, such as iView Media Pro or Extensis Portfolio. The main goal of Photo Mechanic is to allow the photographer to quickly accomplish the initial capture of photos from his or her camera, to categorize photos into winners and losers, and to quickly and easily tag each photo with IPTC metadata.

Software features

Browsing

Photo Mechanic is designed to support fast photo browsing and full color management. It is widely accepted among certain types of professional photographers as being the fastest tool for browsing and sorting files.

Categorizing

Photo Mechanic lets the photographer apply a "color class" to each photo with a single keystroke. This can be used later to filter photos by quality. One common complaint is that this differs from the "0 to 5 star" system used by a number of other browsers and photo tools, notably Adobe Bridge.

Metadata Tagging

Photo Mechanic uses the concept of "IPTC Stationery." The user sets up a piece of "stationery" with the tags common to a group of photos, and can then apply them to any arbitrary set of photos.

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