Comments on: Wanted: Image Tagging Software

By: T. Cook

T. Cook — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:25:09 +0000

Ideally, a tagging program would be limited in scope, straightforward, and the information associated with an image would be completely portable.

The IPTC field allows cross-software, cross-system access of tag information, because the data is stored inside the image. This is ideal.

ACDSee has a hierarchal tag system, but only within its own database, and images tagged in that way cannot be moved from their location outside of ACDSee without losing that information. Picasa and other programs simply display a barf-list of every tag, which becomes very cumbersome, very quickly. The IPTC tags are not inherently structured, but a defined syntax COULD BE arranged that could be read and displayed in the tagging program as a manageable tree.

A unified tagging system would be ideal as a base from which to grow, and add one’s own custom tags, rather than having a scattershot ‘to each his own tagging method’, which is suboptimal for sharing images with others via imageboards, as what is effectively the same tag will show up in the same image five times, entered by five different people. This standardised tagging scheme is probably the MOST IMPORTANT aspect for allowing optimal finding and sharing of images.

As a novelty more than a necessity, it would be preferred for the image tagger to read the file’s datestamp, write the tag, then restore the datestamp to what it originally was.

By: furka

furka — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:16:00 +0000

if you’re running vista, it’s just built-in; Windows Photo Gallery, it lets you easily tag images (or tag multiple images at once) displays thumbnails, previeuws, lets you rate images.

By: AtomicBill

AtomicBill — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:36:19 +0000

Check out http://www.tagcow.com; they had a free service to do this but look like they may be going to a paid version

By: George

George — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:58:29 +0000

Was searching how good is danbooru and automation possibility

Currently I use ACDSEE pro 2 to manage image on my local server
It has tagging & category, DB management and tonnes of functions.
But since it’s not codable, automation depends on it’s built in function.

By: Player

Player — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:35:51 +0000

I am looking for a software to manage and tag my ACG pictures too,did you find any now?iTag is too slow,If you find a perfect one,please tell me

By: voor

voor — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:17:10 +0000

You might also want to take a look at Photomesa. It doesn’t look like it’s being developed anymore, but it’s the closest thing I’ve found that will let me add my own tags to pictures and then do tag searches based on AND logic. Unfortunately, on my fairly old system, it slows to a crawl when I try to index a directory containing over a few hundred pics.

http://www.windsorinterfaces.com/photomesa.shtml

By: iTagger

iTagger — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:32:52 +0000

You might like to see the latest version of iTag – it can do searches now.

http://www.itagsoftware.com

By: meh

meh — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:56:48 +0000

This is an old entry, but oh well
You might be interested in what I created for my website.
Its kinda like danbooru, but it will automatically tag images that have xmp data in them, so loading the images would be a breeze if you already had the metadata entered.

By: DarkMirage

DarkMirage — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:00:59 +0000

zomg yes. that’s just what I want. The tagging function is just like I imagined it. :O That said, it has nothing else. Zero folder and image management. Can’t even do a search with the tags……

By: aks

aks — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:23:00 +0000

another:
http://www.itagsoftware.awswa.com/screenshots.php