Can someone tell me how I can set colours to keywords? For example one colour for What-group, one for where-group and so on. I have tried to read but didn`t find out.
Switch to the Categories View, select an @Keywords category, then at the bottom of your screen set the color properties.
It's the same principle you use for color coding regular categories.
Tips:
Searching the IMatch help for the word color shows Categories as the 2nd hit.
When you open the Categories help topic and Ctrl+F for color on that page, you'll find very quickly The Category Properties Tab (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/#cat_basics.htm?dl=h-33) which explains how to change category colors.
If you open the help for the Keyword Panel (click into the Keyword Panel and press the <F1> key on your keyboard) and then Ctrl+F for color, you'll find the section which explains how to show colors in the Keyword Panel, and where these colors come from.
There is also a related article in the IMatch knowledge base: Use Visual Clues to Improve Your Workflow (https://www.photools.com/3594/visual-clues-improve-workflow/).
I have imported a new hierarchical keyword list, a norwegian list. If I want to color-code the standard 5 W's (WHAT, WHERE, WHO, WHEN, WHY) keywords, do I create these as child-categories under the @keyword-category? My idea was that some of my group keywords describe WHAT and some WHERE. This could give all keywords belonging to WHAT a green colour and all belonging to WHERE a blue colour. But I am not quite sure how to do it...Sorry;)
The @Keywords category hierarchy reflects the keywords in your files.
The tool to work with keywords is the Keyword Panel. And the thesaurus.
You can use color-coding for categories under @Keywords like you can use for any other category.
When you add a keyword like WHAT|fast car in the Keywords Panel for the first time, a corresponding category will show up under the @Keywords, as @Keywords|WHAT|fast car. Just apply a color WHAT and that's it.
The help topic which explains how to to that has already been linked above.
Years ago when I first set up my 5 W category system (Who, What, When, Where, Why) I put them as subcategories of @Keywords and it worked well for me.
@Keywords|What
@Keywords|When
@Keywords|Where
@Keywords|Who
@Keywords|Why
Since then my category system has changed and evolved a LOT but that was a good starting point for me.
I should also mention that creating the 5 W's as @Keywords subcategories works well for me because I do not assign any regular keywords to any of my images.
If you do add regular keywords to your images then maybe you might want to consider creating your 5 W category system as regular categories instead of @Keyword categories.