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The IMatch Help System
The comprehensive IMatch Help System is available online. It is constantly enhanced and updated. You can reach it from inside IMatch by pressing the F1 key or clicking the Help button available in IMatch dialog boxes. This is context-sensitive, IMatch opens the best matching topic from the Help System for the current situation. You can …
The ‘Did You Know? App
The Did you Know? app included with IMatch contains a large number of helpful topics, highlighting certain features or options. The app to be used while you work with IMatch, reminding you of rarely used features or giving you tips for how to work more efficiently. You can open it from the Help menu or …
The photools.com System Information Utility
What is This? IMatch 2020 and IMatch Anywhere™ 2019.11.2 and later include advanced AI-based technology. To support this, our products require that the processors in your computer support a technology called AVX (Advanced Vector Instructions). This technology is standard in virtually all processors manufactured since 2011. Only very low-end computers or special computers like stick …
Quick Tip: Opening Selected Files in a Result Window
An often overlooked but useful feature in the File Window is to open the selected files in a new result window. This feature allows you to work on a subset of the images in the current scope, which may provide a better overview in some situations. Or you use the File Window Search Bar or …
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App Panel Scaling
IMatch apps are designed to be responsive and adapt to the current screen resolution. But sometimes this may not be enough, for example, when you want to use very small App Panels to maximize the screen estate available for other panels or the file window. Or when you use IMatch on a small tablet or …
IMatch and Cloud Storage
Services like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive and others make it very easy to backup files into the cloud. This is often used as a second or third tier backup strategy. In addition to local backups of all your important files for easy and quick recovery. This know-how article explains how your can integrate cloud …
Activating IMatch Anywhere CAL Licenses
After installing IMatch Anywhere on a computer you have to activate the included Client Access License (CAL) once. After the CAL has been activated, IMatch WebServices are ready to use. CAL licenses are linked to a specific computer. After activating the CAL you cannot activate it on another computer for at least 90 days. How …
Free Controlled Vocabularies for IMatch
The IMatch Thesaurus is a very powerful tool for creating and managing controlled vocabularies – not only for keywords! What is a Controlled Vocabulary? A controlled vocabulary (Wikipedia) is basically a list of hierarchical keywords and synonyms. Instead of manually entering keywords, you pick them from the thesaurus. This not only makes keywording (tagging) files …
Putting Some Smarts Into File Names
Using smart file names can be a key for successful digital asset management. Some users prefer to include dates in file names. Other users include project codes or use a globally unique file naming schema. Whatever naming schema you decide to use, IMatch has tools to make the job easier. IMatch includes a powerful tool …