The Bottom Line
IMatch offers seriously powerful image management that rivals high-end image database software at a fraction of the price.
Pros
- Detailed help including tutorial and pop-up tips
- Powerful and robust image organization tools
- Frequently updated and enhanced with user input
Cons
- Can be confusing and overwhelming at first
- Does not support GIF or LZW-compressed TIFFs
- Moving folders is tedious (soon to be improved)
Description
- IMatch is a powerful image management database, thumbnail viewer, and editor for Windows.
- Catalogs pictures on your computer or removable media and monitors local folders for new images.
- Allows you to browse images as thumbnails and index them with unlimited custom data fields.
- Supports EXIF and IPTC standard data. Handles over 50 formats. Supports most RAW formats.
- Users can assign keywords using hierarchical categories and sub-categories of any depth.
- Handles file management tasks such as moving, copying, renaming. Smart duplicate handling.
- Powerful batch processing for changing dimensions, resolution, format, or adding overlays & masks.
- Robust searching: perform visual searches, use regular expressions, save searches for future use.
- Built-in scripting language allows users to automate tasks or extend the functionality of IMatch.
- Supports import and export data to and from many other image database programs.
Guide Review - IMatch Image Management Database from Photools.com
IMatch is a tool for serious image management. It's stable, extremely powerful, and very well documented. It's also likely to be overwhelming to the average non-professional digital photo collector. Although popup help appears throughout the program for the purpose of helping new users, it can quickly become an aggravation. But if you want serious power and you're willing to spend some time learning, there is no doubt that IMatch offers a lot at a very competitive price. You won't find fun, photo-sharing features, but it provides the essential tools that pros are likely to need such as a photo gallery creator, contact sheets, batch processing, and basic editing. Give this one a try before spending big bucks on a high-end image database.
