script finished
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I have just finished my new script for Imatch. I wanted to make something nice something like lightroom has for importing images with copy to backup, rename and auto assign to categories. I am still using older version of Imatch as some years ago I decided to not pay for new upgrade as the one I had was good enough and problems it has wasn’t going to be fixed by new version anyway.
But back to the script. It is purely for importing digital RAW images. I needed it as the amount of images is increasing as the chaos with their handling. I wanted to keep more or less core of my current work flow which I am used and using for analog images.
This new script is reading image from card or from other disk/directory. It is reading from EXIF data date of exposure, shutter release number and model of the camera. These are used to rename the image in format [year-month-date-shutter_release_number]. Than embedded preview image from raw is extracted to jpg and rename with same name. raw file is copied to selected destination plus optional backup destination. jpeg preview image is re sized correctly rotated and lightly sharped. Than such a image is copied to the correct place where Imatch has images and it is imported in Imatch current DB. It is included in new category named import.[today's date] as well as camera model category.
That is all. I may in future describe more about the script with some screen captures if there is interest from IMatch community. This script is written in visual basic (scripting language of IMatch) so it is in for use also other people if they can miss Imatch category assignment at the end of import.
Few external tools are used: exiftool, dcraw, convert from imagemagick. Process is pretty fast.
If you like to know more or try it yourself leave a comment.
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