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Photo Mechanic is an image browser tool for the MAC - a fast and easy-to-use image browser.
Facilities include batch captioning, renaming, speedy browsing, and Photoshop connectivity features. Images are displayed as thumbnails of photos on a camera disk or folder where you can easily rotate, preview, copy, delete, tag, rename, and add caption / keyword information to photos both individually and in batches.
Meta-data is used extensivly - standard image capture data like aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and focal length can be accessed through “variables” and tucked-away in any IPTC field such as the caption. You can also use variables representing the current or capture time, date, or frame number, for example, for file renaming purposes. One variable - the sequence variable - can be used for sequential naming or to serialize certain IPTC fields.
The program has been updated to version 4.4.3.1. What I can’t find though is a list of improvements over previous versions…
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Original post by Andrew Barrow
Filed under: Software, News, Photo Sharing/Storage, Photoshop, Inspiration, Quick Links
During the months of July and August anyone visiting the the London Eye will also have the opportunity to look at the winning entries from the 2005 International Travel Photographer of the Year competition.- Google is currently testing a new version of its photo-management app Picasa in private beta that will let users post photo albums on the web via an integrated, Google-hosted service. You can learn some more about the service or put yourself on the beta waiting list at the Picasa Web site. See DownLoad Squad for details.
- Wired News is running an interesting piece about Flickr’s policy which excludes images from being displayed in public areas of the site or global search results if more than half of the uploader’s images are “non-photographic images.” The rationale seems to be that when people come to Flickr they’re looking for photos, not screenshots or other images. (also via Download Squad)
- Flock is now in beta mode. Lots of new features for photo management, feed-reading, search, favorites, and blogging. Take a look at the Flock blog for lots of juicy details, or hit the download site to grab Flock for Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.
- Superb stop-motion tour of the Pyrimids over on Yakkr.com. (found via Gadling)
- Don’t know quite why you would want to but the Digital Photography School shows how to get your images to look like Lomo photos. A Lomo is a Russian manufactured camera. It is poorly made and known for its less than perfect image quality.
Picture from the Digital Photograhy Flickr Group Electirc Scream by CyberGus.
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Lots of activity around the blogosphere regarding Lightroom 3 - all comments seem positive. I use a PC so I can’t comment personally as this version is not yet available, but we have Jeremey who feels “It looks good… still rough around the edges in areas, but much improved in others.”
His blog post goes into more details on one of the more negative points “The flash gallery looks nice but the images are washed out. They look like they haven’t been converted to sRGB, even though they are sporting sRGB profiles. Either that or the flash renderer fails to handle profiles correctly. Something’s not right, but it could be that I forgot to check some box (like the “do the right thing” box). But given that Lightroom should just manage color correctly and not bother me about it, it’s a little disappointing. “
Photoshop News has plenty of screen-shots. They conclude that “Lightroom Beta 3 has come a long way since the release of Beta 1 last January 9th at MacWorld, but we’re probably only about the mid point through the beta process. Critical functionality such as syncing between a laptop and a workstation is being worked on even as I write. Being able to maintain multiple processing settings per file is also yet to come-but it will. We hope that other cool new functionality will be added.”
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A new version of IView for both the MAC and for Windows machines is available. iView MediaPro 3.1 is an upgrade of the ‘cross-platform digital asset management application’.
There appear to be just two major changes -
1 - Notepad Tool - this allows communication between a MediaPro user and his/her client. The client simply drags and drops selected catalog items onto the Notepad palette, adds comments and then e-mails the Notepad file. This Notepad file imports easily into the creative professional’s original catalog where he or she can view the client’s feedback and execute the appropriate actions.
2 - Improved Catalog Reader - this is a utility that allows MediaPro users to distribute and share iView catalogs with anyone using a Windows or Macintosh machine. They have added ‘table light, that allows users to view up to 6 imgaes on screen and mark the pictures with comments and rating; a way to aid the image selection process.
A handful of minor changes - Enhanced slide show support for more than 32,000 items, Import/export of color label metadata in XML files and toolbar text searches are now asynchronous - search results are displayed as they are found.
This upgrade is free for existing users. A new copy would set you back £129.
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