These settings control the automatic mapping of XMP face regions into IMatch Face Annotations, how IMatch imports the face tag into your hierarchical keywords and other things. In IMatch you have several options under Edit > Preferences > Metadata 2 which allow you to control if and how IMatch imports face data from XMP. When you tag a face in Lr, it includes the face region (the ‘box’ surrounding the face) and the tag into the XMP record associated with the file. Lightroom offers less control over this step.
In IMatch you control how this is done under Edit > Preferences > Metadata. Keywordsīoth IMatch and Lightroom flatten hierarchical keywords when writing metadata. Manually writing back metadata changes to individual files. You can also write-back metadata for one or more files manually via the corresponding icon in the thumbnail panel. This allows IMatch and other applications to see the updated metadata and to process it. If this option is enabled, LR writes changes made to metadata into its catalog database and updates the XMP metadata record contained in your image files or the associated XMP sidecar file. To make metadata visible for other applications (including IMatch), you have to enable the option Automatically write changes into XMP available in the LR Catalog settings or you have to manually write back files. Lightroom by default keeps modified metadata inside its catalog database. You can monitor the write-back progress via the Info & Activity Panel. While data is written to files, some features in IMatch may be slower than normal. IMatch then always writes back changes to files in the background. If you want IMatch to automatically write-back modified metadata at the earliest opportunity, enable this feature under Edit > Preferences > Background Processing.
Lr will indicate that metadata for files has changed on disk. Note that you may have to explicitly reload the metadata in Lr with the Read Metadata from File command. This improves overall performance considerably.
The default is to save changes to the database but to delay the update of files until you explicitly execute a write-back command. You usually don’t need to adjust any of these settings in IMatch.Ĭhanges made to metadata in IMatch show up in Lr when you write-back the changes to the files in IMatch – which can be done on-demand or immediately. Adobe Lightroom behaves the same, which makes metadata exchange between LR and IMatch easy and automatic. It by default embeds XMP metadata in standard formats like JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or PSD, and uses external XMP sidecar files for RAW image formats. IMatch implements the Metadata Working Group recommendations for metadata processing. IMatch also records such events in the file history so you can always track back and see who changed which files. when you edit a rating, label, title, description or keywords) are automatically recognized by IMatch and it re-imports the files to keep your IMatch database up-to-date. You can launch Lr directly from within IMatch, you can drag files from IMatch to the Lr application window to open/import them etc.Ĭhanges made to files and metadata in Lightroom (e.g.
When you manage files in IMatch and process these files in Adobe Lightroom, IMatch stays in control of the entire process.
This article explains how to configure IMatch and Lightroom to work optimally with each other. IMatch complements Adobe Lightroom ® (Lr) with powerful and flexible cross-application digital asset management (DAM) features.