[Jewelry making - Article 00066] - Re: [Orchid] Image organizer software

[Trevor F]

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Hello Richard,

    With some reservations I'd like to suggest that you might want to
    take a look at IMatch (http://www.photools.com/, US$50).  I hesitate
    slightly because IMatch is a large, powerful program that does many
    things and can be user-programmed to do MANY more. 

    IMatch is really a database wherein an image is associated with the
    digital photo details (as assigned by the camera when the shot was
    taken) and whatever other data you want to assign to it (such as
    descriptive details, price ranges, date of production, whatever). Add
    to that tools for image editing, HTML page building, batch processing
    of images (to size, frame, caption, watermark, etc), as well as a
    myriad of ways to filter, sort and group images based on their various
    properties and, finally, a Visual BASIC scripting language and editor
    and you've got some idea of what IMatch is all about. It's basically
    image management and processing. 

    The database concept is central to IMatch so it's not really intended
    for one-by-one tweaks. I guess another way of saying this it that
    IMatch isn't is a program where you grab an image, type in some text,
    drop the text onto your image and Save it. Other programs do that
    sort of thing much better than you ever could with IMatch. 

    That said let me give an example of what I've done with IMatch that I
    don't think I could have done with any other image management
    program.  (I realize that this isn't exactly the type of info you were
    asking for but I've come this far on the subject so I may as well go
    the distance.) 

    One of my areas of interest is ancient jewellery and it's methods of
    production. I've collected close to 1200 images of ancient pieces and
    using IMatch have assigned a variety of properties to the images
    including a "Methods of Work" property. "Methods of Work" would
    include "cast", "forged", "riveted", "enameled", "granulation" and so
    on. 

    Using the scripting facility of IMatch I wrote a "Find" script that
    will allow me to search my image database for images that have one or
    more given "Methods of Work". To make a long story short I can search
    for "Gold" "rings" that were "forged" and "enameled" ... and I can
    frame and caption those images and put up a web page of them and be
    done in less than 30 minutes, all using IMatch.  Of course it took me
    a week to write my scripts and fiddle around figuring out how to do
    things but there you go. 

    Whew!  Guess I better stop or Hanuman will start charging me by the
    word.  :) Usual "me happy customer" disclaimers re IMatch. 

Cheers,
Trevor F.


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