This category contains Know-how articles and tutorials for IMatch plus articles about Digital Asset Management (DAM) and digital imaging in general.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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IMatch File Windows use a range of icons to present metadata and digital asset states. The file collections, the XMP rating and label, category assignments and more. Sometimes it may be desirable to display additional icons. Maybe you want to indicate images taken at high-ISO settings, which may require extra care during post processing. Or …
Variables are a flexible tool for displaying custom metadata in features like File Windows, Viewer, Slide Show, Renamer, Batch Processor and elsewhere. The digital asset management software IMatch gives users access to over 10,000 metadata fields, from all relevant formats, including XMP, IPTC, EXIF, GPS, ID3, PDF and more. Accessing Metadata Fields via Tag Names …
Sometimes you need to find all files which have no data for a given metadata tag. Maybe you need to find files without a description, or files which have no keywords yet. This can be easily achieved with the digital asset management system IMatch. We use the Value filter for this purpose. Open the Filter …
