photo mechanic preferences keep resetting

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#Photo mechanic preferences keep resetting software

I buttons to rate stars and added controls for back and next on my Intuos Medium tablet. I chose not to use the color scheme for selecting that is the default for Photo Mechanic because I used the star ratings (1 to 5) more in Lightroom. I turned this on in Lightroom, synchronized the folder (metadata changes) and my ratings were there. It is something that is turned on in most of my catalogues, I just forgot to do it with this one. This has both programs write the settings and the ratings to a small xmp sidecar file for each photo and allows for the two programs (as well as others) to work together. Which is a setting that I believe should be turned on by default in Lightroom.

#Photo mechanic preferences keep resetting update

I set Photo Mechanic up to write Raw ratings to XMP sidecar files (preferences, under files tab, always update XMP when changing color ratings) then I had to go into Lightroom and check the Automatically write changes to XMP (Windows > Edit Menu > Catalogue Settings, Metadata tab). The card contained all Canon Raw files so after I went through everything, I opened the Lightroom catalogue (I use several) I was going to import the photos to, imported the photos (in place import), then went to check my ratings… They weren’t there! I dug around a little further saw that I got caught by a simple little thing from the Photo Mechanic help files. Next I opened the folder with Photo Mechanic as a contact sheet and started to rate the images in there using my tablet.

Instead of doing a Lightroom import like I usually would have done, I used the ingest feature from Photo Mechanic to put the images in the folder tree that I normally would have with Lightroom. I had a card I had to move the images from onto my computer. I was intrigued and the next day downloaded the trial version of Photo Mechanic and set up my tablet the almost the same way.

#Photo mechanic preferences keep resetting how to

Starting at about the 15 minute mark, RC Conception basically went through a very quick rundown of Photo Mechanic as well as giving tips on how to set up a Wacom Intuos tablet to help with one click sorting. I really thought, why do I need this?Ī little while ago I was catching up on some photography podcasts and in particular this episode of Photography Tips and Trips from KelbyOne. I knew that sports photographers relied on it heavily and I had an idea that it was great for sorting pictures and adding metadata to photos.

#Photo mechanic preferences keep resetting software

I had heard about Camera Bits Photo Mechanic software for a long time (in fact I downloaded a trial version in November 2012 but never installed it) so it wasn’t really new to me. At that time I said to myself why had I waited so long to try the software. If I remember correctly, the last time this really happened was back at the end of 2007 when I tried Adobe Lightroom 1 for the first time and within an hour of playing with the trial I purchased it. It’s not very often that a piece of software comes along that makes me change my photographic workflow.