Comments on: Tagging Photos

By: Jeffrey E Biteng

Jeffrey E Biteng — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:10:26 +0000

Yeah to me its very important, it will make easier for me to search the photos, especially when the editor calls up and looking for this or that.

Cheers David.

Jeffrey

By: Fábio

Fábio — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:57:12 +0000

Nice article! It really gave me what I need to know on how to tag photos. On the best tagging software, I’ve heard iTag (http://www.itagsoftware.com/) rocks.

By: Clarence

Clarence — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:55:08 +0000

Clarence

while I was surfing the internet when i found your blog i stick to it reading more and more keep going.

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:48:22 +0000

Hi,

I was wondering… If I tag several photos using picasa or acdsee on my computer at home and copy them on a cd or ipod and take them to another computer with the software above installed and ready to use…. will the tags still be available? Does the software embed the tags into the file itself, or does it create a local database, and when I copy/move the files on another computer, the tags will be lost?

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:50:15 +0000

Hi, thanks for your tip. I have a photo blog (since I don’t know much about html – it’s my easiest option) but it seems to take me forever to “tag” my photos. I use explore on windows XP – right clicking the photo I want to tag and clicking “properties” then clicking the “general” and “summary” tabs – filling in the gaps. I’ve tried to click more than one photo at a time by holding ctrl but it only ever works for one photo at a time. If anyone can suggest a quicker and easier way I’d be most appreciative.
Many thanks
Peter

By: Josep

Josep — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:15:14 +0000

I use a program called “BrilliantPhoto”, you can find more details in
“http://brilliantlabs.com/”. I think it´s a easy way to add descriptors inside the photos and look for them afterwards.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:06:09 +0000

I guess I’ve been sort-of tagging all my pics but didn’t know it. I always put dates and events to my folders that I copy the originals to. Then once those digital negatives are copied, I put the originals on CDs. The copies are then in the proper folder, by date and event.

I take each pic and put the info like this:
01-25-Pete_Karianne_Lady Ginger Bailey-Mae
(This is the heirarchy, by folder:2007>01.Jan>New Yorkie)
If you have multiple pics for the same thing you can batch label them.

By: David Peterson

David Peterson — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:11:53 +0000

You can rate your photos using Bridge, but you can’t (yet) add tags. Hopefully they’ll add this feature in CS3.

By: HECTOR PASTRANA

HECTOR PASTRANA — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:58:05 +0000

Do you recomend Adobe Bridge for tagging? can you even do it with it?

Regards and thanks for the excelent tip!

By: John Ballment

John Ballment — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:10:53 +0000

If you are looking to use Flickr for online storage, may I suggest getting Adobe Photoshop Elements (PSE). With PSE you can tag all your files, then it has an option to write the tags to the files in the ITPC headers. Flickr will read these headers and automatically create the tags online saving you the hassle of tagging in two places.