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Knowledge base
Photo Mechanic Plus
Getting Started with Photo Mechanic Plus
8
Getting started with Photo Mechanic Plus tutorial video
Introduction to Photo Mechanic Plus catalogs
Photo Mechanic Plus Search
The difference between filtering and browsing
Using the Photo Mechanic Plus filter tool
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Purchasing and licensing
4
Photo Mechanic Plus purchasing and pricing FAQ
What is Photo Mechanic Plus?
What are the technical requirements for Photo Mechanic Plus?
Can I keep using Photo Mechanic 6 with Photo Mechanic Plus?
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 find your catalogs using the Organizer panel
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Catalog Settings and Preferences
9
The Catalog menu
Scan to Catalog
Photo Mechanic Plus Catalog Preferences
How to re-index a catalog
Manage shared folders
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Troubleshooting
5
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?
Photo Mechanic 6
Getting started
10
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
How to deactivate and remove Photo Mechanic from a computer
How do I find my License Key?
How to manually install and deactivate Photo Mechanic
How to install and register Photo Mechanic
Photo Mechanic activation from the command line
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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
14
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
19
Adding Watermarks
Snapshots
Color management in Photo Mechanic
How to export Photo Mechanic preferences to move computers
Rendering RAW files on Photo Mechanic with Adobe DNG Converter
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Keyboard shortcuts
4
Keyboard shortcuts: macOS
Keyboard shortcuts: Windows
Autocomplete
Modifier key shortcuts
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 opethe ingest dialog when inserting a card into your reader
Live ingest
Metadata (IPTC) Template
11
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 keywords to photos
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Troubleshooting
7
COVID-19 / Coronavirus Info
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
5
List of Photo Mechanic variables
Advanced code replacements
Hot codes
Adding User/Client variables
Variable Substring Extraction
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
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
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Feature Requests
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Posted by
Marziah Karch
,
over 1 year ago
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by Marziah Karch
over 1 year ago
Integrate Fast File Copy Tool like TeraCopy
Posted by
Fernando.b.martinez
,
3 minutes ago
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by Fernando.b.martinez
3 minutes ago
Filename ONLY list view.
Posted by
craig
,
8 months ago
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by Dave
3 days ago
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