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Beyond my Aperture libraries, my source hard drive is full of thousands of sorted and labelled RAW images that have made it through my full Photo Mechanic treatment. But it is also platform and application agnostic. You'll need to remove the old keyword/rating as you go.Īs I mull over working with Photos, I am more satisfied with the Photo Mechanic portion of my workflow than ever before. The challenge you have to watch out for is if you rate/keyword an image “3 Star”, then apply “2 Star” later, it will have both keywords/ratings. This would allow you the flexibility to do your ratings after importing to Photos, which seems more practical. It's not as easy as doing it right in the application but it does make a relatively quick solution.Įditor's note: You could do your rating in Photos by assigning keyboard shortcuts to “1 Star”, “2 Star” etc., and creating Smart Albums to search for those “rated” (keyword) images. Any modifications to ratings would have to be made manually in the Photos Info window. With metadata embedded in the image, the source images could then be imported into Photos where they would be searchable. Fortunately Photo Mechanic makes this process quick and relatively painless. Photos apparently only renames ratings that come from an existing Aperture library so a Photo Mechanic user would have to select rated images and append stars, colors, or other keywords to the previously applied metadata. So where could this fit into a Photos workflow? It's a little kludgy but a Photos user would move all renaming, metadata, and rating operations into Photo Mechanic as the first step. It does all of this with stability and speed. Once done, Photo Mechanic makes quick work of viewing your intake, attaching your GPS data, and allowing you to rate your images. Much of that metadata can be automatically generated from a huge collection of variables that Photo Mechanic makes available. What Photo Mechanic does really well is that it can “ingest” a folder or camera card of images, rename and back up the files as it goes, and apply any metadata you may need.

That said, it is my go-to photography appliance. I don't find it to be a glamorous app but I don't spend enough time in it view it as anything other than a practical appliance. By doing this you're essentially future-proofing your workflow, so if/when Photos does allow you to add and view this metadata natively, your perviously imported images will already have it in place. Even after studying the cool automation in Joseph's Live Training: Importing Your Photos video, I never had the desire to shift my workflow to an Aperture-only import.Įditor's note: Keep in mind that while you can add metadata to your images with Photo Mechanic, you won't be able to view all of it in Photos.

Every image I shoot goes through Photo Mechanic before importing into Aperture. Long before Aperture became my go-to tool, I developed a workflow that incorporated Photo Mechanic from Camera Bits. Ratings imported from an Aperture library are imported into Photos and converted to keywords, and it's unknown when or even if additional metadata features will appear.īut there are options for the user who is attracted to the accessibility and speed of Photos but can't live without their metadata. Metadata is simply nowhere near as available as it was in Aperture. A user can mark favorites and add keywords, but not much else.

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A heads up, the original creating of the image database might take some time if you have a bunch of images.The word is now out that Apple Photos.app for Mac OS X offers no ratings, color labels or flags, and only limited metadata editing.

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I get back into the office, fire up Photo Mechanic and with a couple of clicks everything is filed and up to date! I HIGHLY recommend you give the FREE trial a trial, it will blow your mind the speed. I’ve only tapped one small portion of its power but I now can see ALL of my files on the road (just a thumbnail, not the actual RAW file) giving me the ability to not only see what I’ve captured in the past to remind me of my mistakes and successes, but also my filing renaming structure. It’s Photo Mechanic on database steroids! I grabbed the free trail and went to town letting it catalog ALL of my digital assets. With a couple thousand critter subjects to keep organized, that’s quite a task but it’s nothing for Photo Mechanic Plus. Being on the road for long periods of late, I need to return to my office with not only my files culled and filed, but renamed as well. A DAM program, it fits my very anal nature when organizing my RAW digital files (stills, video, everything). I’ve been a Photo Mechanic user, lover, connoisseur from the very beginning! It’s speed ingesting and displaying my images cannot be equaled.

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