The New Version of the FotoTagger Image Annotation Tool Lets Users Feel more Comfortable when Annotating Images
Released on = March 19, 2007, 9:13 am
Press Release Author = Cogitum LC
Industry = Software
Press Release Summary = Add easy-to-hide notes to images. Publish images to Flickr, blogs, Web. Search.
Press Release Body = ASHBURN, VA, USA - March 19, 2007. Cogitum LC, a provider of software for personal content management, has released FotoTagger 2.3 (http://www.fototagger.com), the new version of its popular image annotation program.
FotoTagger is a free desktop tool designed for both personal and professional users of digital images, including users of photo cameras, professional photographers, travelers, family historians, genealogists, and documentation managers. It lets them effectively record and share information about content of images, as well as make image search much more relevant and precise.
Every person who has digital photos faces the problem of forgetting valuable information about people or objects captured on an image. Moreover, as the number of images grows, an ability to quickly find the desired image becomes crucial. FotoTagger eliminates this problem by allowing users to annotate individual elements or parts of the image. Users can place easy-to-hide annotation tags directly on a picture in order to describe specific objects. Each tag can have an arbitrary location and contain a free text capturing the names of the people, links to Web sites or other images, explanations, translations of inscriptions, and more. The tags can be hidden in a click of a button so the original view is never spoiled.
As images are annotated, FotoTagger lets users easily find people or objects by their names or other text typed in the tags across piles of digital pictures. With FotoTagger, there is no need to use old-fashion techniques trying to meaningfully name the file or create a hierarchy of folders on a hard disk. A user can enter the name of a person and FotoTagger will find all pictures where this person is captured.
To let users share annotation with an image wherever it goes, annotation tags are embedded in an ordinary JPEG file meaning the image content description always stays with the image itself. With FotoTagger, users can publish tagged photos to Blogger.com, LiveJournal, as well as to their own Web sites. Flickr users can use FotoTagger as a desktop enhancement of their Flickr accounts. They can tag photos with FotoTagger and upload them to a Flickr set in a click of a button. FotoTagger tags are converted into editable Flickr notes. Moreover, photos hosted on Flickr can be downloaded to FotoTagger with Flickr notes transformed to editable FotoTagger tags.
FotoTagger 2.3 offers more features offers more features to let users feel more comfortable when annotating images. The new features include:
- Generating animated GIF file. Now FotoTagger enables creation of an animated GIF file that displays the image with and without tags in a loop. - Publishing annotated images to blogs hosted on Blogger.com both with new and old Blogger accounts.. Now FotoTagger supports uploading annotated images to Blogger if a user signed up with a new Google account. As Google changed the way old Blogger accounts should be supported by third party applications, FotoTagger 2.3 enables publishing images with an old Blogger account too. - Pasting an image from the Windows clipboard. With FotoTagger 2.3, annotating screen shots becomes easier. Users just press Print Screen on a keyboard, click the new Paste Image button on the FotoTagger toolbar and start adding tags. - Scaling tags when printing an image. FotoTagger 2.3 can enlarge the tags if the image is large so they can be read easier.
The current personal version of FotoTagger supports what could be called "3F principle" F1: Free of charge; F2: Free of ads; F3: Free of spyware and privacy intrusion.
FotoTagger can be downloaded from the official product Website http://www.fototagger.com.
About Cogitum LC Cogitum is an innovative software developing company with several award-winning personal software tools, including Co-Tracker and Co-Citer that gained total hundreds of thousands downloads. More information can be obtained by contacting a company representative at 1-703-858-2377 or by contacting Leonid Malkov at Lmalkov@cogitum.com.
Web Site = http://www.fototagger.com
Contact Details = Address: 21339 Fairhunt Drive, Ashburn USA