A free software for annotating family photos

[annotated_family]

Hi All!

I just would like to tell you about a free tool for annotating family photos called FotoTagger, http://www.fototagger.com.

I use it to memorize people and events captured on family photos, especially on my group pictures, by placing notes directly on a picture and:

- Identify family members/ancestors

- Comment specific details (callouts are supported)

- Annotate places where photos were taken

- Hide annotations to view an original picture

- Publish annotated pictures directly to blogs at Blogger.com and LiveJournal (but you can still can use Fototagger as a desktop tool!), etc.

- Search across image annotations

For example, take a look at the Annotated Travel blog which was created with FotoTagger: http://www.annotated-travel.blogspot.com/

FotoTagger is absolutely free for a personal use and can be downloaded from http://www.fototagger.com/downloads

I like it and hope you'll enjoy it too!

Jeffrey

[annotated_family]

By the way, this is how I work with Fototagger to annotate my family photos:

1. I take a family photo, say a group photo where my uncle Roger is captured
2. I identify all people, including uncle Roger, by putting annotation notes. If I don't need them, I click a button and annotations become hidden, you see an original photo. This ability is important and great for me because I don't want to spoil old black-and-white family photos by embedding notes that cannot be eliminated
3. I save the photo. If I want to share it, I click Publish to Blog and select to which blog (blogger.com/livejournal) I want to publish
4. I do the same with other family photos.
5. When I want to find all photos where uncle Roger is shown, I simply launch search feature and type "uncle Roger". Then Fototagger finds all photos with my uncle Roger.

Hope this helps.