DAM Knowledge Base

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

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Mastering Digital Image Management: A Guide for Hobbyist Photographers Using a Digital Asset Management System on Windows

Mastering Digital Image Management: A Guide for Hobbyist Photographers Using a Digital Asset Management System on Windows As a hobbyist photographer, you probably find yourself amassing a growing collection of digital images. Organizing, editing, and managing these images can quickly become overwhelming. Enter Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems – a game-changer for photographers looking to […]

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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 ‘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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App Panel Scaling

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

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IMatch and Cloud Storage

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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