Choose your workflow: Color Class or Star Rating? If you use the Open as contact sheet(s) option, only use it to view images or copy some of them to your hard drive before you start rating or editing metadata. There is a small but real risk that changing or writing metadata directly on a memory card could corrupt the data on that card, and you would not be able to access any of the photos. There is also the option to Open as contact sheet(s) but if you do that, you should take care NOT to rate or add metadata to the files while they live on the memory card. For more information on options in the Ingest dialog, see the Documentation page for Ingesting photos with Photo Mechanic. There is a preference for what Photo Mechanic will do when you plug in a memory cardĬhoosing to Show Ingest dialog will enable you to get the Ingest process going as soon as possible, and is often the best option for most people. After you do that, you will be able to scroll through images quickly and use Photo Mechanic to decide which images are keepers and which are rejects. This is the safest option, and we’ll explain why below. Our recommendation for best practice is to copy the entire contents from your memory card to your main local hard drive or SSD.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |