As my work and techniques evolve and change so will my software use. I am aware of things that can be done but at the moment I don't do them. Like most things, I am still learning PhotoMechanic (only been using it 3 years lol) so there is functionality I have not discovered - just like with Lightroom. However most if not all of the teams I cover don't have set numbers and mix their players up quite a bit and Smith may be playing as "10 striker" next week so I don't use it. I know there is a bit of photo mechanic where you can program short words or numbers to be entered and they will appear as names or whatever - so you can set it so that when you type "1" in the stationary it prints "Smith, goalkeeper for Rovers" - and you can save as many versions as you like so you can have a set for Rovers, one for City, and one for United - all printing different names. The bulk of my work is not stock but sport which I do off my own website, and keywording need is minimal while speed is wanted.
The thing is everyone's workflow is different. I am also considering having a look at "stock submitter".
I know Lightroom has different functionality - I have never used it for keywording. If I was going to be doing some more coins I would have saved the stationary but I will certainly not have as big a batch to do again - it might be one here or there but that's it. I don't save keywords as stationary because I have not run across a situation where I am doing a huge number of pictures the same as a huge number done before. You can, of course, save as many different bits of stationary as you like - I have a basic one for me and a basic one for my son for application on import. Its a function of photo mechanic - especially useful when doing live news as I can enter all the information that is the same for each shot (headline date attribution) click the copy button then type the bit that is different on the first shot (caption) then its the save and move forward button, paste button, type caption, save and move forward button. With the Alamy Lightroom plugin (I know I keep banging on about it but I really couldn’t imagine my workflow without it), you can fetch and set keywords/tags/supertags between the Lightroom database and Alamy, so OP may wish to consider using/buying LR. You can add a hierarchy of words and synonyms in one click. Filter by star rating or flagged and then edit. Once that part is done, I simply add the photos to the Lightroom catalog without migrating any of the actual data. Photo Mechanic is just far more efficient at all the other tasks. I use it to cull, ingest, apply metadata, organize photo library, etc. I have to say that using keywords in Lightroom is far easier once you get the hang of it. Everything else is done in Photo Mechanic. xmp file, and then just apply it to whichever images you want in one go. Rather than copy and paste, would it not be easier to type them once, save the stationary pad as a. I have used the keywords field recently when I uploaded 40 odd photos of coins - many of the tags were going to be similar so rather than type them all out, again and again, I wrote them in Photo Mechanic then used their copy and paste function so all the photos had the basic tags done I just have to add the ones specific to each coin. Obviously, if you want you can fill in the caption in the description/caption field in PhotoMechanic as well - useful if you end up sending the image to a different agency as well as Alamy. Then when it gets through QC those keywords will be the tags and you just have to select any you want as supertags. Using it for tags is really simple, just put the words or phrases you want as tags into the keywords bit, separated by commas. I've tried googling but no luck.I use photo mechanic for live news where you have to have headline and caption done before you upload. I have no idea where the problem lays (LR, PM or some setting in the camera itself). Instead, LR creates a different xmp file with info about camera, lens, etc but no "rating" value. Ratings that were there are left intact.įor Fuji files: the existing xmp file is left untouched. Then when I import to LR the following happens:įor Canon files: the existing xmp file gets rewritten by LR, adding stuff about camera, lens, etc. I noticed that when I rate in PM, a xmp file is created with my ratings etc. Canon's CR2 files behave normally and ratings are all there. You don’t have to wait for images to load to check focus, and culling your gallery can be done more quickly so you can move on to the editing process ASAP. I tried the "Read metadata from file" option and that didn't bring any changes whatsoever. Photo Mechanic uses a fast-loading method of previewing your RAW files that loads much quicker than Lightroom previews. I recently bought a Fuji XT-1 and I ingest/rate the RAF files in PM but the ratings are not in Lightroom after I import to LR. I normally shoot Canon and my workflow is: Ingest/Rate in Photo Mechanic, then import to Lightroom and do editing there. Ok, I really hope somebody can help me out.
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