Photo Mechanic is pretty wonderful but it does not have the virtual light table that some of the newcomers have. There's lots of digital camera RAW focus in Aperture and Lightroom and proprietary structure to how they keep up with your pictures. If you are used to keeping things in order with folders and/or directories and don't want all the automatic whiz bang stuff done for you in ways you can't figure out you don't want the new stuff, IMO. The new stuff won't run on an older computer and Photo Mechanic runs and is -fast- on old computers, its super fast on new machines. And Photo Mechanic is not very expensive at $150.00 which is about half or less than its competitors (and as I wrote it does not do as much, but that might be a blessing)

PM offers lots and lots of ways to tag and select photos and move them automatically to different folders, edit metadata, etc. and whatever. PM makes good html pages (excellent quality and fast, just not fancy presentations which I understand is being changed in the coming release) does slideshows, offers many alternate viewing arrangements, etc.

Maybe the best part is that the company is small and responsive. You probably won't need any help, but if you do, a real person responds right away, which these days is pretty amazing.

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