Re: IMatch and Picassa interoperability

--- In [email protected], Adam Lasnik <adamlasnik@g...> 
wrote:
> I long for a world which combines the charming UI of Picasa and the
> geek powerness of IMatch.
> 
> Imatch's keyword functionality is heads and shoulders about what
> Picasa offers.  But I find browsing through sets of pictures much 
more
> pleasant on Picasa.
> 

Adam,

My sentiments exactly. The engineer in me loves Imatch and its power. 
I've been trying to settle on a program to catalog my images. I have 
been unsatisfied with all the other viewing/cataloging programs I 
have tried. I love what Imatch can do, but I am rapidly approaching 
the end of my evaluation, and have run into a major problem.  My 
problem is that I want other family members to be able to 
use/view/access the image files. They are struggling with the Imatch 
interface, for some of them, I just don't think they will get through 
it.  They don't really use it enough or want to invest the time in 
the learning curve. The options, menus, and UI of Imatch have been 
frustrating them.

The upfront ease of use of Picasa suits what they need to do.  But 
the lack of category organization hampers my organizing needs. 
What I am trying to work out  is a way to use picasa as a "skin" over 
the imatch functionality.  I was trying to find a way to have Imatch 
automatically export the categort information into the IPTC fields 
of  the images.  This would at least allow Picasa to read the 
categories as "keywords", and allow the less techy family members to 
do simple searches/viewing/selection of images.  And if Picasa 
populates the IPTC info, this would allow me to import any images 
that other family members have tagged via picasa/IPTC  into the 
imatch database (selecting the option to convert the IPTC keywords to 
categories.) 

SO far, I have had no luck getting my category info written into the 
images IPTC fields via Imatch, although it sure seems like it should 
be possible.







 
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