I have before tried to put up pictures on Google earth, Panoramio, PicasaWeb, Flickr, my own picture gallery and so forth but always had an issue with Tagging.
1. I dont want to spend time tagging everything while typing a lot of information. I want to batch tag a lot of photos with the basic tags I need.
2. I want a simple way to point and click on a map to geotag a picture.
3. I also liked the idea of being able to easily re-organize pictures into folders based on year, month and date. Normally when I go out and shoot pictures it is one location one day for a particular activity so the date seems to be the best starting point for storing my pictures. My Canon 350DS just give me the 261CANON folders with 100 pictures in each. It however also make sure the EXIF data is there so why not use it.
4. I also want to make sure each pictures is marked with the Copyright information in the Exif data easily.
In the batch EXIF mode Zoner will open a new window and you can simply mark and click and the tag is added and then save it to all pictures.
Zoner allow me to batch tag a whole directory, even Geotag a whole directory if needed. Ofcourse pictures are taken at more or less unique GPS points but with 600 pictures in my web gallery that would be an impossible task to do. At present I am just targetting trying to show them in the right village. For some specifically interesting photo’s I will Geotag them on the actual spot.
I have not seen these features in any of the softwares I use normally. Picasa, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Digital Photo Professional.
One thing I have discovered the Zoner software can not do properly is HDR pictures. Atleast not if you are taking pictures without tripod, remote release and so forth as the software assumes your 3 – 5 pictures are perfectly aligned before importing. Thus Photomatix and Photoshop is still the best choice for me in that department.
It should be noted that tonight the SmugMug uploding page went offline with the following error message. Atleast! it does not impact the viewing of the pictures on this blog! eventhough theyare on the site. Can only hope they are uploading a new version of the site with some new features then ?!
