The catalog feature in Photo Mechanic Plus has a lot of advantages over Lightroom Classic. You can also browse photos that are not in your catalog, another thing that you can’t do with Lightroom. The nice thing about Photo Mechanic Plus catalogs is that, if your photos are stored on an external hard drive, you can edit your catalog while those photos are offline.Īdditionally, unlike Lightroom, you can work with multiple catalogs at the same time in Photo Mechanic Plus – including searches across multiple catalogs.
Adding Photos to your Photo Mechanic Plus Catalog It’s a great alternative to those who aren’t keen on the subscription-based model of Lightroom Classic.
Photo Mechanic has been around for years and recently introduced Photo Mechanic Plus to add a database capability with catalogs. If you haven’t started cataloging your photos and you intend to keep up with photography…what are you waiting for?! Start that database. You can also collect photos from various different folders into “virtual” folders called collections. This is where catalogs save the day! With a catalog you can search, sort, and filter photos by keywords, date, camera used, lens used, ratings, and combinations of those. You can easily use your computer’s file browser to go to those photos.īut as your collection grows to thousands of photos, manually finding a specific photo from ten years ago is going to be a royal pain in the ass. If you’re new to photography and only have a couple hundred photos, you may not think you need a database. You know exactly where to find those two books, and a simple ledger will help you keep track of who checked out those books and when, and when they’re due.īut what if you’re a library with two thousand books? Organization & recordkeeping is going to be a much bigger task. If you’re a library with only two books, recordkeeping and organization is probably really easy. So when you hear the term catalog, all you’re hearing is a different term for database. In addition to referencing the physical location of your photos, the database also references information like photo capture date, lens & camera used, and more. The database is a reference of which photos are stored where. Your physical files are located on your hard drives, within folders.
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