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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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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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Putting Some Smarts Into File Names

Using smart file names can be a key for successful digital asset management. Some users prefer to include dates in file names. Other users include project codes or use a globally unique file naming schema. Whatever naming schema you decide to use, IMatch has tools to make the job easier. IMatch includes a powerful tool

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Exporting Metadata and Attributes with the Text Exporter

The ability to export metadata in various formats is a key feature for every digital asset management system. IMatch includes a wide range of export modules which allow you to export attributes, metadata and other data in a variety of formats. Exporting Metadata and Attributes This know-how article covers the flexible Text Export module which

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Using Custom Icons in the File Window

IMatch File Windows use a range of icons to present metadata and digital asset states. The file collections, the XMP rating and label, category assignments and more. Sometimes it may be desirable to display additional icons. Maybe you want to indicate images taken at high-ISO settings, which may require extra care during post processing. Or

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Use Metadata Tag Shortcodes To Save Typing

Variables are a flexible tool for displaying custom metadata in features like File Windows, Viewer, Slide Show, Renamer, Batch Processor and elsewhere. The digital asset management software IMatch gives users access to over 10,000 metadata fields, from all relevant formats, including XMP, IPTC, EXIF, GPS, ID3, PDF and more. Accessing Metadata Fields via Tag Names

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How To Find Files Without Metadata

Sometimes you need to find all files which have no data for a given metadata tag. Maybe you need to find files without a description, or files which have no keywords yet. This can be easily achieved with the digital asset management system IMatch. We use the Value filter for this purpose. Open the Filter

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Reclaim Disk Space by Removing ExifTool Temporary Files

ExifTool IMatch uses the awesome ExifTool library to read and write metadata. This ensures optimal metadata quality and compatibility with a wide range of applications, digital asset management systems and web services. ExifTool uses a Perl runtime environment. When an ExifTool version is first run on a computer, it creates a sub-folder in the system

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Ignoring Small Embedded Previews in RAW Images

RAW Previews Sometimes older RAW files have embedded preview images with dimensions much smaller than the RAW file itself. For example, some early cameras included smallish 1200 pixel previews even if the RAW had 3500 or more pixels in each dimension. The digital asset management system IMatch by default uses the embedded preview image to

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Consolidating XMP Color Labels

XMP Labels XMP metadata includes an optional field named label. A label is a text or tag you can assign to an image. Digital asset management systems with XMP support like IMatch use this label for various purposes. Common examples are labels like ‘Red’, ‘For Review’, ‘Für den Druck’ or similar. Most XMP-aware applications also

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