Find Problems in the Metadata of Your Images With the IMatch Metadata Analyst

Problems with metadata in images (things like keywords, descriptions, time stamps, location data, GPS coordinates etc.) are quite common, especially when you have processed your files with a variety of software over the years. In the recent blog post The Hidden Problems of Image Metadata: Why Your Photos May Not Be as Organized as You […]

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IMatch Keyword Panel

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

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Why Photographers Benefit From a Locally Installed Digital Asset Management System for Windows

Why Photographers Benefit From a Locally Installed Digital Asset Management System on Windows In the modern world of photography, where thousands of high-resolution images are captured and edited every day, the need for a robust Digital Asset Management (DAM) system has never been more critical. Whether you’re a professional photographer working with clients or a

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How To Convert Microsoft Photo Face Regions Into Standard XMP Face Regions

Many people use Microsoft Photo to “tag” their friend and family in photos with face annotations.What they don’t know is that data is not stored in the standardized XMP regions, but in a proprietary Microsoft XMP namespace. Which makes the data useless for IMatch and other software. IMatch imports the proprietary face regions as part

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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

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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

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