This category contains Know-how articles and tutorials for IMatch plus articles about Digital Asset Management (DAM) and digital imaging in general.
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 […]
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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 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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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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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
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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