Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Photo Mechanic 4.5 Update Announced

Photo Mechanic, a workflow management program from software developer Camera Bits Photo has been updated to version 4.5. The updated version includes an HTML exporter, improvements in the Unicode IPTC, and a new Structured Keywords feature.

According to Camera Bits President and Founder Dennis Walker, "Photo Mechanic is one of the few applications available that can be trusted to flexibly, properly, and safely handle IPTC and XMP metadata editing for photos, especially RAW photos."

Photo Mechanic is geared for professional photographers with large volumes of photos to browse and manage their images with select editing functions. The existing version of Photo Mechanic allows IPTC/XMP metadata to be read in different photo file formats including JPEG and RAW. Version 4.5 now allows users to choose to encode IPTC as Unicode or another specific character such as Mac Cyrillic. The new Structured Keywords function lets users attach a hierarchical keyword system to their images, essentially ranking the photo metadata by relevancy. Other features include a new HTML exporter to create web galleries, a five star rating system, and Caption Safe that allows users to undo metadata changes for RAW images.

Interested users can preorder Photo Mechanic 4.5 at http://www.camerabits.com/. Version 4.5 is free for users who purchased it after March 1, 2006. Photo Mechanic 4.5 ships this month for $150 for new users or $90 for existing users.

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