This category contains Know-how articles and tutorials for IMatch plus articles about Digital Asset Management (DAM) and digital imaging in general.
What is IMatch? IMatch is one of the leading Digital Asset Management Systems (DAM) for Windows.Manage, catalog and organize all your RAW files, digital images, videos, audio recordings, PDF and Office documents etc. in one software. See what IMatch can do for you. What is WIC? IMatch supports the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) framework supported […]
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Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop for Simple Cases When planning to reorganize your database by moving files between folders or categories, IMatch is here to assist. It offers user-friendly features like copy & paste and drag & drop, making simple file transfers straightforward. See the File Management help topic for more information. Collating
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The Plus Coalition is an international non-profit organization dedicated to a mission: “to enable access to and understanding of information about visual artworks for the benefit of its members and the general public.” As part of their work, they define the PLUS XMP namespace, which provides fields available for optional use in embedding and reading
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As photographers, we often find ourselves managing seemingly identical images, wondering if they contain the same metadata. Or perhaps you’ve recently switched to a new RAW processor or image editor and are concerned about it altering or deleting your precious metadata. Have questions like these crossed your mind? Whether you need to compare dates, camera
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Instead of using the standard numeric file naming scheme used by many digital cameras and smartphones (e.g., `DSC_12345.RAW`), users often prefer to rename their images with a more meaningful filename, such as `[Date]-[Time].RAW`. This approach allows for greater flexibility and organization in your image library. The Renamer In the digital asset management system (DAM) IMatch,
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With IMatch, you have several ways to establish a certain file order. You can use the Renamer to rename files in a way than ensures they are displayed in the other you want when you sort by file name, e.g. in a File Window, in Windows Explorer or elsewhere. This is quick and easy to
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When IMatch indexes new images, it reads the embedded metadata like EXIF, GPS and IPTC and then produces a rich and complete XMP metadata record from the imported native data. If you are new to metadata or find this topic complicated, check out Metadata for Beginners in the IMatch Help System. XMP uses so-called namespaces
Why IMatch Wants to Write-back Metadata After Indexing New Files? Read More »
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
Find Problems in the Metadata of Your Images With the IMatch Metadata Analyst Read More »
IMatch allows you to ignore faces instead of deleting them.This feature is useful when you want to retain the information that there is a face in that area of an image, but you don’t want the IMatch AI to try to assign a person to that face. Features which use face annotations, e..g. face arrangement,
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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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