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IMatch Semantic Search: Find Photos and Digital Assets by Meaning with IMatch AI

IMatch Semantic Search: Find Photos and Digital Assets by Meaning with IMatch AI IMatch 2026 introduced a new integrated AI (IMatch AI) and a new smart way to search descriptions, keywords, and other metadata contained in your IMatch database. Finding the right file in a collection of tens or hundreds of thousands of assets used

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IMatch 2026 Released

IMatch 2026 is Here! IMatch 2026 is the next major version of IMatch.IMatch 2025 was released in February 2025, and since then we have shipped 16 free updates with improvements, fixes, compatibility updates, and user-requested enhancements. A lot of work went into the main new features in IMatch 2026: IMatch Albums, new IMatch AI, AI-powered

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Advanced Indexing Options in IMatch: Automate Metadata, Categories, Collections, and File Renaming

Advanced Indexing Options in IMatch: Automate Metadata, Categories, Collections, and File Renaming IMatch can perform automatic operations when new files are added to a database or when existing files are rescanned after external applications have changed them. These options save time and help keep metadata consistent. This article explains how IMatch can process files automatically

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Find Photos by Day and Month Across Years in IMatch

Find Photos by Day and Month Across Years in IMatch Did you know that IMatch can find photos, videos, and other files created on the same day and month across multiple years? That makes it handy for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, recurring events, seasonal research, long-term projects — and, of course, that suspicious number of April

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IMatch Performance Tips for Large Photo Libraries

IMatch Performance Tips for Large Photo Libraries IMatch is a capable digital asset management system for Windows. Many users start with a growing personal photo library: family photos, travel shots, scanned slides, videos, and folders waiting to be organized. Others use IMatch for much larger collections, from specialized stock photo archives to institutional and commercial

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A Friendly Guide to Photo Metadata for Regular People

A Friendly Guide to Photo Metadata for Regular People Metadata is often explained as “data about data.” That is technically correct—and about as exciting as explaining pizza as “flattened dough with toppings.” For regular people, photo metadata is simply the hidden information that helps you find, understand, organize, and protect your photos. Some of this

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Streamlining Your Workflow with IMatch Categories: A Step-by-Step Guide.

Are you looking for a way to track your files along your workflow using IMatch categories? In this article, we’ll show you how to setup a simple yet effective workflow using categories, assignment action, color-coding and favorites. Setting Up Workflow Categories To get started, switch to the Category View and create a new top-level category

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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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Easily Add, Remove and Replace Keywords with Metadata Templates

Easily Add, Remove and Replace Keywords with Metadata Templates Metadata Templates and Favorites in IMatch can make it much easier to add, replace, and remove keywords quickly. A common use case is tracking workflow stages across multiple applications when not all of them support standard XMP labels. Workflow Keywords Consider a simple set of workflow

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IMatch Events: A More Natural Way to Organize Photos

IMatch Events: A More Natural Way to Organize Photos If you’ve ever tried to organize years of photos with folders alone, you already know where it gets messy: real life doesn’t happen in neat directory trees. You remember moments—Paul’s birthday, the family vacation in the Bahamas, that spontaneous city trip to London—not “\2024\07\15” or “\DCIM\100CANON”.

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