Working with Metadata
Explains how to display, edit and use metadata like IPTC, EXIF and XMP.
IMatch supports all Metadata Standards commonly used for digital images, multimedia files and other document types.
- Metadata for Beginners
This topic provides a quick overview of metadata standards used for digital images and other files.
- Introduction to Metadata
Explains the features in IMatch which work with Metadata like IPTC, EXIF, GPS, XMP or ID3.
- The Metadata Panel
This panel displays metadata IMatch has extracted from your files and allows you to add and edit metadata like title, headline or description.
- The Keyword Panel
This panel makes working with hierarchical keywords very easy. It offers many features to quickly add, edit, change and remove keywords for individual files or large batches of files.
- The Thesaurus
This feature enables you to create or import lists of keywords to work with controlled vocabularies.
It works with the Keywords Panel.
- Metadata Templates
This feature is used to add copyright notices, usage and licensing information, photographer credentials and other stationary data into the metadata of your images automatically.
- AutoFill
This feature is integrated in the Metadata Panel and allows you to setup 'sets' of metadata values and to apply these sets to files.
A big time-saver if you have to fill in lots of metadata in lots of files.
- The Map Panel and Reverse Geocoding
In the Map Panel you add, modify and view GPS coordinates for your files. IMatch allows you to import GPX track logs and to reverse-geocode files to create location data like county, state, city and location from GPS coordinates.
- Attributes
In addition to standard metadata, IMatch provides built-in database support for custom metadata. With custom metadata you can store any kind of information for your files, e.g. notes, sales or submission information, references to external databases and so on.
Metadata Helper Apps
IMatch includes a number of apps which help with specific metadata tasks.
TimeWiz | This app makes it super-easy to set and modify date and time metadata in your files. Use it to shift wrong times caused by wrong clock settings in your camera. To fix invalid date and time information. To fill the correct XMP 'created' date and time tags from other time stamps your files may contain.See The TimeWiz for more information. |
The Metadata Mechanic | The swiss army knife for setting, manipulating, moving, copying and deleting metadata. See The Metadata Mechanic for more information. |
The Metadata Analyst | A very helpful app for diagnosing existing metadata in your files. This tool comes into play when you encounter problems or strange effects with metadata. The Metadata Mechanic reads the metadata in your files and displays detected problems. This information helps photools.com support and the friendly IMatch user community to help you to solve metadata problems in your files.See The Metadata Analyst for more information. |
ExifTool Command Processor | A friendly user-interface for ExifTool built right into IMatch. Use it to see the actual metadata in your files, to modify metadata directly and to run arbitrary ExifTool commands if you are an expert.See ExifTool Command Processor for more information. |