Working with detail profiles

A detail profile allows you to store and recall a set of commonly used information fields.  By selecting the profile later, you can quickly populate these information fields with the profile's set of values.

The Detail Profiles dialog displays a list of all existing profiles available--you can create as many detail profiles as you like.

To edit an existing profile, either double click on the profile's name or click the "Edit Profile" button in the dialog's toolbar.

To create a new profile, click the button “New Profile” in the toolbar and enter the name you want to use for that profile. While you can enter any name, it is generally best that you choose a short name that describes the profile's content. For example, you can use your name.

Enter only the fields that are of interest to you and click OK to store the profile and return to the list. Now select the profile and click OK to apply the profile to the image.  Once you have applied the profile, the fields that you have entered will be copied to (and overwrite) the corresponding fields in the image's Image Details panel.

As you can see in the screenshot above, some of the fields are green. The green color lets you know that the information for that field will be replace any existing information in the image's field once you select and apply this detail profile. This is known as "Replace" state.

IDimager actually provides three ways for applying the information in a detail profile field to an image:  "Replace", "Append" and "Clear".  You can toggle between these three states by clicking the small button left of the field's caption label. Each of the three states is represented by displaying the caption label in a different color (green for Replace, blue for Append, and red for Clear). 

In append state, the specified value in the detail profile's entry field is appended to the end of the corresponding information field of the image when the detail profile is applied.  In clear state, the existing value in the image's information field is erased when the detail profile is applied.

As an example, let's say you want your profile to add a name to the existing creators of the image.  Click on the button [=] to change its state to "append" (blue).