1. What's New
  3. Version 5.0:
  4. Improved the look of the user interface to a more professional dark background.
  5. Added support for numerous IPTC Extension and PLUS licensing fields.
  6. Movie files can now be captioned with IPTC using an XMP sidecar file.
  7. The IPTC dialogs can now be customized to show only the fields of concern, their order in the dialog, and the field headers.
  8. Improved the speed of browsing by using a faster JPEG implementation (since JPEGs are used for the internal disk cache of thumbnails and previews).
  9. Ingest can now automatically begin upon mounting of flash cards.
  10. Added the ability to choose maximum file size (with a minimum quality) for the JPEG Save As command.
  11. You can now upload a photo directly from the IPTC Info dialog.
  12. Improved the speed of sorting and filtering by using an internal database cache for image preferences such as rating and for image capture time.
  13. Added the ability to sort by Date or Name in the Favorites / Navigator panes.
  14. Added a Tasks section underneath the Navigator to show Ingest and Upload status.
  15. The Preview window is now non-modal so it can be kept open on a second monitor.
  16. The Preview window can now be configured to display thumbnails on the left or on the bottom.
  17. Added a snapshot menu for Set Info Text configurations in the Preview window.
  18. The Preview window can now show blown highlights and underexposed shadows.
  19. Crops can now be rotated to arbitrary angles to match the horizon. Crops are now stored in XMP using the Adobe ACR namespace and are therefore recognized by Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom and other applications that use the same XMP namespace.
  20. Crops can be removed in a batch using the Tool menu command "Remove Crops."
  21. Constrained crops can now have non-integral ratios (e.g. 2.5 x 2).
  22. Movie files can be played back in the preview window. Crops can be applied and stills can be extracted (via Save As).
  23. When browsing directly from a flash card (which is NOT recommended), Photo Mechanic will not modify the contents of files to record user preferences such as tag, color class, rating, and crops. Changes to IPTC are also not saved. This change was made to avoid problems with allocating additional space on full disks.