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Getting Started with Photo Mechanic Plus 8

• Getting started with Photo Mechanic Plus tutorial video
• Introduction to Photo Mechanic Plus catalogs
• How to find your catalogs using the Organizer panel
• Photo Mechanic Plus Search
• The difference between filtering and browsing

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Purchasing and licensing 3

• Photo Mechanic Plus purchasing and pricing FAQ
• What is Photo Mechanic Plus?
• Can I keep using Photo Mechanic 6 with Photo Mechanic Plus?

Catalog Settings and Preferences 11

• Catalog Preferences
• Scan to Catalog
• How to re-index a catalog
• Manage shared folders
• How to control the metadata fields in the Browse panel.

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Best Practices 6

• How do you import catalogs from Adobe Lightroom®?
• Where should I store my catalogs?
• Can I share my catalog with other people?
• Snapshots in the Photo Mechanic Plus Organizer
• How to rename a catalog

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Troubleshooting 6

• How can I see all the photos in a catalog?
• How to move a catalog
• Working with offline or missing media
• How to remove a folder from a catalog
• How do I add more searchable fields to my catalog?

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Getting started 11

• Video: Getting started with Photo Mechanic
• Ingesting photos with Photo Mechanic
• Introduction to Photo Mechanic contact sheets
• Tagging photos
• Star ratings

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Licensing and activation 8

• Deactivating, Uninstalling, and Removing Photo Mechanic
• How do I find my License Key?
• How to manually activate and deactivate Photo Mechanic
• How to install and register Photo Mechanic
• Proxy settings for activation

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Sales and purchasing 9

• Can I share my Photo Mechanic license?
• Does Photo Mechanic run on the new Apple M1 Chipset?
• Does Photo Mechanic 6/Photo Mechanic Plus run on macOS Big Sur?
• What is Photo Mechanic?
• What's new in Photo Mechanic 6?

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Contact sheet and preview 15

• Viewing 2-Up previews
• How to crop photos
• View Live Slide Shows
• How to rotate photos
• How to create and manage slide shows from a contact sheet

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Settings and preferences 20

• Adding Watermarks
• Snapshots
• Color management in Photo Mechanic
• How to export Photo Mechanic preferences to move computers
• Rendering RAW previews on Photo Mechanic with Adobe DNG Converter

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Keyboard shortcuts 4

• Keyboard shortcuts: macOS
• Keyboard shortcuts: Windows
• Autocomplete
• The Modifier Key

Feature requests 3

• Send us your ideas and feature requests
• Is there a tablet or phone version of Photo Mechanic?
• Is there a Spanish or other language version of Photo Mechanic?

Ingest 3

• How to use Ingest From Selection
• Automatically open the ingest dialog when inserting a card into your reader
• Live ingest

Metadata (IPTC) Template 12

• Using the Metadata (IPTC) Info tool
• How to find the Classic IPTC template in Photo Mechanic 6
• The IPTC Stationery Pad in Photo Mechanic 6
• Find and replace
• Adding keyword metadata to photos

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Troubleshooting 9

• How to use Share Screen in Zoom with Photo Mechanic
• FAQ: macOS Catalina and Photo Mechanic
• Troubleshooting slow rendering issues
• Tips before upgrading your computer OS
• Where did the Mac Spotlight search feature go?

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Variables and code replacements 6

• List of Photo Mechanic variables
• The Sequence variable: {seqn}
• Advanced code replacements
• Hot codes
• Adding User/Client variables

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Photo Mechanic and connected products 5

• Uploading photos to photo sharing and storage services
• How to maximize IPTC/XMP compatibility with other software
• How to upload photos from Photo Mechanic to Facebook
• Sending Photos from Photo Mechanic to external editors
• Camera Bits and the GDPR

Files and formats 8

• Supported file formats in Photo Mechanic 6
• Does Photo Mechanic support HIF, HEIC, and HEIF formats?
• Exporting photos to web galleries
• How to burn photos to CD, DVD, and Blu-ray
• Exporting web galleries using a custom HTML/CSS template

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Photo Mechanic 5 5

• Does Photo Mechanic 5 work with Big Sur
• Does Photo Mechanic 5 work on macOS Catalina?
• Why is there a message that Photo Mechanic 5 is not optimized for my Mac?
• Where I can I find the Photo Mechanic 5 user manual?
• Recognized file formats in Photo Mechanic 5