Can I hide the face and globe icons covering the thumbnails?

[deaded]

I've been using iMatch on Windows 10/11 for years, today I upgraded to 2025.1.8.  I don't remember having the blue happy face icon over the thumbnail of everyone who has face annotations. Same with the green globe icon for GPS.  The other icons on the side fade when you are not hovering over the thumbnail, but those two don't.  I can see their utility as an exclusion/inclusion filter but not as an obstacle.

Is there any way to hide them?  They partially obstruct my view of the thumbnails, especially when they are small.  I have searched these forums as well as the internet but have not found a solution.

Thanks to anyone who might be able to help with this!

[Mario]

nail, but those two don't.

That means that the file has face annotations and GPS coordinates. Active icons are less translucent than inactive icons, so you know which collections or other attributes are active/enabled and which are not. For example, bookmark a file and see how the bookmark icon behaves.

You can hide all icons in your layout, but not individual icons. This would cause a lot of unneeded complexity.

If you have enabled the option to stretch thumbnails in your File Window layout, the thumbnail will fill the entire panel, basically moving under the icons. Disable this option to make room for the icons.

You can control whether or not show icons and even in which size in the File Window layout settings. Just configure it the way you want.

See File Window Layouts for all details, options and modes you can choose from.

[deaded]

Thanks very much.  I have used the File Window Layout settings but did not see this option.  I'm due for a check-up for my eyes.

[Jingo]

You can also define your OWN icons and tuck them "out of the way" at the bottom of the thumbnail using a custom File Window Layout.  This is the one I created which has "on/off" capability to show me if the image has AI tags, Metadata Writeback, # of Stacked Images, Modified Metadata flag, XMP Title, GPS data, Description, Flagged, # of People, # of Keywords, Rating and a placeholder currently used for Green Dotted images (to print).

Lots of power with IMatch custom templates!