Create Custom Metadata Panels in IMatch with My Panel My Panel is a flexible IMatch feature for building custom metadata displays for images and other digital assets. This article shows how to create a My Panel, add metadata rows, use simple table layouts, style the output with HTML, and add Favorites for quick access to […]
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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 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 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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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 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
Exporting Metadata and Attributes with the Text Exporter Exporting metadata in multiple formats is a core feature of any digital asset management system. IMatch includes a range of export modules that let you export metadata, attributes, and other database content in several widely used formats. Exporting Metadata and Attributes This article covers the flexible Text
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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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How to Find and Remove Duplicate Images in IMatch New users establishing a digital asset management (DAM) workflow with IMatch often discover that their photo collection contains numerous duplicate images. Over time, duplicates can accumulate as files are downloaded from cameras and devices, copied between drives, or contributed by multiple people. These issues can complicate
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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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