Comparison of IDimager v4 to EM2

[danaltick]

As Larry the Cable Guy would say, "I don't car who u r, that was funny rite ther"

Dan

[danaltick]

I've made quite a few suggestions on the IDimager forum since I started evaluating it.  Below are the links to those threads.  Peter, feel free to critique as necessary.  Don't won't to send Hert on any wild goose chases.

http://forum.idimager.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10659

http://forum.idimager.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10495

http://forum.idimager.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10685

http://forum.idimager.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10666

http://forum.idimager.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10608

http://forum.idimager.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10655 (already taken care of)

http://forum.idimager.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10506

That about wraps up my evaluation/comparison unless anybody has any recommendations/suggestions.

Quite an awakening!  I would never have guessed this app was so comprehensive.  I'm truly stupid-fied.  Hert, I'm humbled by what you have accomplished.  I only regret not having looked at it sooner.  Can't wait for version 5.

Now time to get back to re-systematizing my DAM, with IDimager of course.

Dan

[Dierk]

A best I can tell, what you are describing is that when entering a keyowrd hierarchy, all nodes are added as separate keywords, even if an identical item is already there.  Is that it?

Exactly.

d'n'd has - outside of role player communities - always been a standard abbrev for drag-and-drop. Sorry, I tend to shorten words, phrases, even sentences a lot on days I've a lot to say on-line.

[peterkrogh]

Dierk,
Don't know why I didn't process DnD - yes, that's common usage.
Usually, my brain works in acronyms, or MBWIA.
Peter

[Dierk]

Using Opera, I created a search box for the toolbar from: http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Oh, and the linguist in me tells me to be a little pedantic on 'acronym', neither MBWIA nor d'n'd are such, they are just abbreviations. An acronym is an abbrev formed from several words by using single letters from each [usually the first one, but let's not get too pedantic], which is then spoken like a word, hence '-nym' = name. NATO is the standard example.

[peterkrogh]

I can pronounce MBWIA.
;-)
Peter

[danaltick]

I just discovered that IDimager can replicate the Place Finder capability in EM due to its ability to browse all the Metadata Panels by control clicking on them just like EM.  For example you can Ctrl-click on State then City then Location very easily; and of course you can supplement this with Ctrl-clicks on the Ratings, Color Labels, File Types, etc. just like EM, but with many more fields.... very powerful indeed and really negates the need for Hert's script mentioned earlier in this post http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php?topic=4202.msg23383#msg23383.  You can also Ctrl-Alt-cliick to exclude specific fields.  One thing it doesn't do though that EM does is highlight the fields contained in the selected images.

Dan

[havezet]

One thing it doesn't do though that EM does is highlight the fields contained in the selected images.

Hi Dan,

You can read the in/excluded items in the title of the Collection Viewer (in other words; directly above the thumbs)

Does that help?

Hert

[danaltick]

Hert,

Yes that does help.  I like that approach.  You can always see the full conditional list.  With EM you only see the highlighted terms if those portions of the hierarchy are actually visible in the Catalog Explorer window.  It would be nice of course to have both, but one or the other will certainly work.

Dan

[havezet]

Dan,

When using Ctrl+Click then IDimager also displays an indicator at the far left of the selected item (a lime colored vertical bar).

Hert

[danaltick]

Hert,

Yes that's true.  Let me rewind for a moment now that I think about this.  With EM all you have to do is select some thumbnails and whatever metadata and/or labels/sets have been assigned to those thumbnails gets highlighted in the Catalog Explorer tree hierarchy.  This happens without any multi-image Ctrl-click searching.  Now the Quick Assign feature does give you all the Catalog Label assignments, but it doesn't show the other Branch assignments such as Color Labels, Ratings, other IPTC metadata, file types, etc. Make sense?

Dan