DAM Knowledge Base - digital asset management systems

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Renaming and Distributing Files Automatically in IMatch

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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Fix Image Order with the TimeWiz

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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Why IMatch Wants to Write-back Metadata After Indexing New Files?

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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Find Problems in the Metadata of Your Images With the IMatch Metadata Analyst

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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How to Find Images with Ignored Faces

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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Free Controlled Vocabularies for IMatch

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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Why Keywords, Headlines, and Descriptions Matter

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 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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Fill AutoFill Templates using the Copy Data App

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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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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