iTag - Photo Tagging Software

[Gail]

Hi All,

I heard about this tagging software on a techie show that I sometimes watch on the television. A caller had telephoned and had been using a tagging program but it is no longer available/supported so the caller was asking for suggestions for other tagging software.

It was suggested that he have a look at iTag - this software is freeware and to quote the author:

iTag is a free tool that adds title, description and keyword tags to your jpg photos.
The captions you enter are embedded into each jpg file using industry standard IPTC and XMP headers - all in a loseless operation that doesn't degrade the jpeg image.
Many other applications understand IPTC/XMP too - so once you have annotated your photos with iTag,
any IPTC/XMP aware application will automatically fill out the title, description and tag fields where appropriate.

I think tagging is becoming quite popular now particularly if one has a lot of images (and who doesn't if they own a digital camera!).

I tried this program the other evening - I just tagged a few photos in 'My Family' album and then I indexed them using iTag. Then I looked for all images for 'Dad' for instance and any of the images that I had tagged 'Dad' showed as thumbnails - I can see how this could be quite useful.

If you want to read more about this program - here is the link.

http://www.itagsoftware.com/

[Lorraine]

Looks like a pretty good program Gail. One of these days, will have to check it out.

Am I mistaking, or can you have more than one tag on a picture...Like one saying Harold, and another saying winter??

And on another picture, one saying Kalleena, and one saying Winter??

Let's say, I have a picture of Harold that was taken in the winter, and I want to see all the pictures of Harold, and next time I want to see all the pictures taken in the winter time. Did I explain that right??

Lorraine

[Gail]

Hi Lorraine,

Yes you can use more than one tag - if fact, I would think it is better if you use more than one tag.

When I tagged the few in a family album when I was playing around with the software - for photos with my Dad for instance - I put the tags Dad, Fred (which was my father's name). The same idea with my mother - I put the tags Mom, Lena. You simply separate the tags with a comma. So if I searched for 'Dad' - all the photos tagged 'Dad' would show. If I searched for photos of 'Fred' - again all the photos of Dad or Fred would show. I could also add a tag 'anniversary' or 'birthday' or whatever tag you want.

[Lorraine]

That sounds even better, I will have to check on that..

Thanks Gail