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I only shoot raw, not raw+jpg, and in IMatch my raw files are my masters. Rather than trying to answer your questions I'll just tell you what my workflow is, perhaps doing that may answer some of your questions.įor starters my workflow is quite different than yours.
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I'm also using IMatch and DxO PhotoLab 4 plus I also throw Affinity Photo into the workflow.
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What would you do differently? How would you automate the manual tasks? Again, pointing me to the name of the functionality or the help page is sufficient, I can easily work from there. And I need to be able to process files again even later ("damn, why did I crop the picture this way, this looks ugly").Īs you can see, I do get along, it works somehow, but it surely can be improved. But I need to be able to process raw files and generate new Jpgs much later, even years later.
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Updating metadata only after processing the raw file in DXO is not an option for me: I need to update metadata immediately after taking the pictures, because I may have forgotten details later. In this case, does it make sense at all to have XMP files?
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How to keep metadata in Jpg: How do I get the metadata into the Jpg file so that people with whom I exchange pictures (or Android devices) can view it as well? Should I do "Metadata write-back" from Imatch? Or is there a way to tell DXO to use the metadata in the appropriate way and create the new Jpg with the metadata in the first place? Certainly, DXO is far behind Imatch in terms of metadata, so it is probably best to not even try DXO with metadata. Given the jpg has "DXO" in metadata field "Software", Imatch can probably do that automatically (algorithm: if file has changed and if contains "DXO", set status to green - what is the name of the Imatch functionality to do that?) Set label based on new meta: When the new Jpg file is digested by Imatch, I manually set it to status "green". Is there a way to automate this (algorithm: if file dimensions have changed and if the file had face annotations before, rerun face recognition) Of course, Imatch is smart enough to realize this is the same pic, so all categories and metadata are still there.įace recog: Only the face annotations in Imatch are wrong if the new file is cropped. So when DXO generates the new Jpg file, it does not contain the metadata (except rating perhaps). Unfortunately, DXO does not seem to pick the metadata up from the xmp sidecar. (I am pretty sure this can be simplified in Imatch given how powerful it is, can anybody just let me know the name of the functionality to launch the raw file from the jpg file? RTFM comments are fine).Įxport and replace in Imatch: When I am done in DXO, I export the file, thereby replacing the master file in Imatch. the 30% mentioned before), I go to the Media&Folders view in Imatch, disable the "Hide buddy files" filter, double-click on the corresponding raw file (Test.Arw). Raw processing: When I decide a picture (Test.jpg) is worth processing (i.e. I can write it to the Jpg or an XMP sidecar. Rate/Meta/Category: Step one of my workflow is to cull, rate and generate metadata (GPS and other stuff) and rename files. Also, I use Imatch as well on a laptop which only has the Jpgs but not the Raw files.) So having the Jpg as master ensures I always use the same master file - the raw file is only there for the Raw converter. For 50% of my images, I delete the raw file after a few years without ever having used it.
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For another 20% I keep the Raw in case but never process it. For another 20% I do that later, possibly half a year later. For 10% of my images, I immediately process the Raw file to create a better Jpg file, replacing the out-of-camera Jpg. (Why is Jpg Master? I want to view Jpgs in full-res for rating and for viewing. All have the same filename for simplicity reasons, so it is Test.Jpg, Test.ARW,, and if need be Test.xmp. In Imatch, Master is JPG, while the Raw file and DXO's DOP as well as any XMP files are buddies. All related threads in this forum seem decades old (except one which did not cover my questions), so I am starting a new one. I am still struggling to establish a clean workflow. I have been using Lightroom for a decade but have now switched to DXO.