Hey guys, welcome back! Joy here - today we are talking about photo mechanic. This is how I'm able to go through literally hundreds or thousands of images in very little time and just go through and select what I want. So I'm going to give you guys some tips on culling and I'm going to explain the software. Again, we're inside of a photo mechanic right now.
So what you need to know about photo mechanic is that just the way that i views raw files (and it does work with raw files ) is so much faster than light room because lightroom is really just the way that it reads the file it's so much slower so it takes a second to render so as you'll see right here I hit enter ( space bar makes the image larger)and I'm immediately able to see a sharp image of what this photograph looks like. So there's not this buffering waiting not sure what's going on kind of deal. I can go ahead and I can enter and look in and just go through these images so quickly now a lot of these images are upside down so bear with me but you can get the point. So what I would do is I.
Would hit enter and I say okay I like this image I'm going to select it. To select this image, I'm going to hit the T key on the keyboard . And if you see right down here (lower righthand corner) there is a checkmark now there are ways to star the images, color the images, do all kinds of different things. The way that i'm using it is i'm just selecting the positives.
I'm only going to select the images i liked so I'm not really worried about things I don't like. And I think it's much faster that way! My first tip is to go through your images and think what do I want to keep. Okay so i've decided i'm not a huge fan of that image let's rotate this really quickly okay so this is doable let's go ahead and hit the check mark so if we don't want to see this image so close we can go back to our thumbnail format all right let's get one of these with the emboss or tool i'm able to see this up close so i'm happy with how and focus it is can also zoom in and you can zoom out okay um yeah so this is totally out of focus i don't like that... All right I do like that, that seems pretty cool.Select that.
I'm just able to go through and select things that we like really really quickly so I'm going to really quickly yeah see that's really cool so then I. Selected that alright so once you have made your selections you're happy with the images that you have you're going to go up here to the top and you're just going to say "tagged" that now brings you the only the selections you've made. I. Can do command A (keyboard) and this is just all my images and then it shows me you have six images here.
At this point these are the only images i'm going to import into Lightroom. So I'm only spending the time in Lightroom that I absolutely need to with my selects. This has changed my life you guys, so if your wedding photographer or you shoot thousands of images you need to check out photo mechanic. I hope this video was helpful for you guys and that now you are able to see a little glimpse of what photo mechanic can do and how I specifically use it in my wedding photography business.
If you guys check it out let me know what you think leave me a comment I'm open to questions if you like this video give it a thumbs up and be sure to subscribe so that you don't miss out on future videos! I'll see you guys next time. Bye guys.
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