This category contains Know-how articles and tutorials for IMatch plus articles about Digital Asset Management (DAM) and digital imaging in general.
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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Maximizing Your Photos: Why Keywords, Headlines, and Descriptions Matter Hello fellow photographers! Whether you’re a professional or just love taking photos for fun, you know how a great image can capture a moment perfectly. However, in today’s digital world, even our best photos can get buried in the chaos if we don’t label them properly.
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Fill AutoFill Templates using the Copy Data App This article describes how you can use the Copy Data app included in IMatch to fill AutoFill templates from existing metadata in your files. How to Use the Clipboard with the AutoFill Template Editor You can paste data into an AutoFill template from the Windows clipboard. The
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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 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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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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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
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
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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
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The ability to export metadata in various formats is a key feature for every digital asset management system. IMatch includes a wide range of export modules which allow you to export attributes, metadata and other data in a variety of formats. Exporting Metadata and Attributes This know-how article covers the flexible Text Export module which
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