Cogitum Launches FotoTagger, a new personal tool for photo annotation and sharing

May 30, 2006; 03:05 PM

To address challenges of managing tsunami of digital photos, Cogitum LC, a software developing company, based at Ashburn, VA, announced today release of FotoTagger, a new personal free software tool for image annotation and sharing.

With FotoTagger, users can annotate images by adding easy-to-hide movable notes to digital pictures.

FotoTagger addresses three main challenges in managing digital pictures by providing the following features:

1. Keeping image details forever

On the other hand, having names and comments placed directly on digital photos is useful only when a user is able to easily hide these annotations and view an original image. This is exactly what FotoTagger basically does.
Currently, FotoTagger is already used for annotating travel photos, family pictures, and paintings.

 For most users, wasting time trying to find a photo with a specific person or object is a usual exercise. FotoTagger provides an ability to reach a desired image by searching across textual notes. This capability lets users perform a meaningful search and rely on what is presented on a picture rather than on formal parameters, like a file name or an image creation date.

 Many users often want to share images along with some textual comments and explanations. A real value of photo sharing can be often measured not just in a number of photos. In many cases, it is determined by few pictures with reasonable annotation. That is why FotoTagger supports publishing to blogs as a form of photo sharing.

FotoTagger helps users publish images with additional text explanations to a blog just in a few clicks so annotated pictures can be easily shared with other people. The current version of FotoTagger supports publishing to Blogger.com and LiveJournal. Alternatively, annotated images can be also shared through email and exporting to HTML for easy publishing in the Web.

Distribution

FotoTagger can be downloaded from the official product Web site http://www.Fototagger.com. 

 FotoTagger is probably the first and only software product that proudly claims utilizing three thousand years traditions. The blog associated with the program developer demonstrates that many cultures in the history used text over image with traditional image media. FotoTagger just restores this tradition to digital images.