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Knowledge base
Photo Mechanic Plus
Getting Started
9
Introduction to Photo Mechanic Plus Catalogs
How to find your catalogs using the Organizer panel
Photo Mechanic Plus Search
Filtering vs Browsing
Using the Photo Mechanic Plus filter tool
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Sales & Purchasing Info
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
The Catalog menu
Catalog Preferences
Scan to Catalog
How to re-index a catalog
Manage shared folders
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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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Video Tutorials
0
Photo Mechanic 6
Getting Started
15
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 & Activation
6
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
See all 6 articles
Sales & Purchasing Info
11
Can I share my Photo Mechanic license?
Does Photo Mechanic run on Apple's M1 Macs?
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 & Preview
18
The Preview Window
Viewing 2-Up previews
How to crop photos
View Live Slide Shows
How to rotate photos
See all 18 articles
Preferences
12
General preferences
Contact sheet preferences
Files preferences
Launching preferences
IPTC/XMP preferences
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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
10
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 'Search my Mac' feature go?
See all 10 articles
Variables & Code Replacements
6
List of Photo Mechanic variables
The Sequence variable: {seqn}
Advanced code replacements
Hot codes
Adding User/Client variables
See all 6 articles
Connected Products
8
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
See all 8 articles
Files & 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
See all 8 articles
Video Tutorials
0
Photo Mechanic 5
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