In Photo Mechanic you can allow RAW to be modified and embed IPTC in the RAW-files tooĪnd, as I have also explained, I do not create a locked box because I do not use a database and I facilitate both the reading and writing of XMP files, which are freely interchangeable with any other app.
It’s a huge conflict of interest and basically hijacking a community for personal gain.Īnyone considering using your software is pushing their images into an incompatible locked box which makes photography worse. Only a fool would follow Apple’s lead in photography.įrankly I’m surprised you are allowed to persistently promote your own software in these forums. What kind of dunderhead would try to dictate to the world that every photographer must run Apple computers.Īpple has botched Aperture (great program with fatal flaws interacting with other programs) and created the greatest monstrosity to afflict photo management, Apple Photos. I’ll alert you to the existence of Linux, iOS, iPadOS, Windows of various flavours, Android. Trying to tie metadata management to the conventions of a single OS is perhaps the stupidest idea I’ve ever seen. The tag metadata even transfers with the file from one computer to another.
The Spotlight mechanism efficiently and unnoticeably indexes them in the background and can search for files that match hundreds of different attributes in an instant. It provides Finder Tags, which can be added to files, no matter what type or even if they are folders.