I am eager to start an iMatch trial, but I'm a bit concerned about all the features in iMatch. What should I focus on in both iMatch and Lightroom? What is secondary or items I can safely ignore?
Keywording is important to me. Also I am about to scan many thousand slides and negatives. Any special considerations there?
I would start with
First Steps (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/base_firststeps.htm?dl=hid-1)
Meet IMatch (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/app_intro.htm?dl=hid-1)
and the free tutorial videos in the IMatch Learning Center (https://www.photools.com/imatch-learning-center/).
Make sure Lightroom has written all metadata (it does not do this by default).
IMatch will automatically pick up all metadata Lr has written, including keywords.