http://www.organizepictures.com/2008/05/imatch Learn how to organize your digital pictures. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:55:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.organizepictures.com/2008/05/imatch/comment-page-1#comment-1717 vlad Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:12:19 +0000 http://www.organizepictures.com/2008/05/imatch#comment-1717 Tom...thanx for the comment. When I did my evaluation of iMatch it was a quick evaluation. I have read quite a bit about iMatch and many people love the product. When I read about its capabilities, they sound very impressive. However, my goal was (and still is) to find a program that allows me to create keywords and assign them to keyword categories and write them to IPTC. My expectation is to be able to do this right after installing the product...this should be a very intuitive process. iMatch was extremely confusing to setup. Lightroom in comparison was very, very easy to use and I was able to do what I wanted in 5 minutes. I really appreciate your comments and details and I will be trying your suggestions. I wanted to look at iMatch again soon anyway...so thanx again. Tom…thanx for the comment. When I did my evaluation of iMatch it was a quick evaluation. I have read quite a bit about iMatch and many people love the product. When I read about its capabilities, they sound very impressive. However, my goal was (and still is) to find a program that allows me to create keywords and assign them to keyword categories and write them to IPTC. My expectation is to be able to do this right after installing the product…this should be a very intuitive process. iMatch was extremely confusing to setup. Lightroom in comparison was very, very easy to use and I was able to do what I wanted in 5 minutes. I really appreciate your comments and details and I will be trying your suggestions. I wanted to look at iMatch again soon anyway…so thanx again.

]]> http://www.organizepictures.com/2008/05/imatch/comment-page-1#comment-1713 Tom Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:50:54 +0000 http://www.organizepictures.com/2008/05/imatch#comment-1713 I don't concur with this review. I conced that iMatch is not easy to begin with, because it does not follow the look and feelof most SW of this kind. But, iMatch offers several (interchangeable and mergeable) prefabricated lists of "keywords". Actually these are namend "categories", i.e. you can use a tree of structered keywords. The best way to approach iMatch is to concentrate on what you want to do: 1) index and import a database that can be updated with the wizard (and it's fast), 2) in the "database view" click on the folder you want to work on, 3) select either one, several or all pictures, 4) double click at the bottom of the window and begin to tick the categories you want to have your pictures in (the locic notation shown is: keywordL1.keywordL22.keywordL333 etc.) and you are done. Saving etc. is done automatically. Of course you can add any keywords on the fly. If you want to change categories you need to change the view (this is a bit awkward, esp. if you don't want to use English keywords, but it is at least safe). After some sessions iMatch turns out to be a really fast tool. You don't have to type much, everything is done with a few clicks or hot keys. Thanks to this I really keep keywording my pictures. I don’t concur with this review. I conced that iMatch is not easy to begin with, because it does not follow the look and feelof most SW of this kind. But, iMatch offers several (interchangeable and mergeable) prefabricated lists of “keywords”. Actually these are namend “categories”, i.e. you can use a tree of structered keywords. The best way to approach iMatch is to concentrate on what you want to do: 1) index and import a database that can be updated with the wizard (and it’s fast), 2) in the “database view” click on the folder you want to work on, 3) select either one, several or all pictures, 4) double click at the bottom of the window and begin to tick the categories you want to have your pictures in (the locic notation shown is: keywordL1.keywordL22.keywordL333 etc.) and you are done. Saving etc. is done automatically. Of course you can add any keywords on the fly. If you want to change categories you need to change the view (this is a bit awkward, esp. if you don’t want to use English keywords, but it is at least safe).
After some sessions iMatch turns out to be a really fast tool. You don’t have to type much, everything is done with a few clicks or hot keys. Thanks to this I really keep keywording my pictures.

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