I haven’t tagged my photos in 22 years, relying solely on folders with a brief description and the date. But now I realise tagging might actually be a good idea going forward (and back). As it’s definitely getting unrulely.

I’m using PhotoLab and have started going back through and tagging people and places mostly, plus things like “landscape”, “flower” etc. Fairly high level. I have a “home” and “garden” tag which covers a lot of photos as well as a " day out" when we visited some place.

I’m sure some people add way more tags- do you and is it useful to you?

  • KevinFRKEnglish
    1•3 days ago

    I happened to choose ACDSee Photo Studio to add keywords, ratings and catalogue them, so I could do the simple “Show me all pictures of Magpies with a Rating of 4” searches (because I want to find my best Magpie photo, etc.). Product chosen as it was not subscription, so works “forever” (though you do get bombarded with upgrade offers).

    The keywords show up as tags in Windows File Explorer properties, and you can now add tags there directly. Don’t go for any approach that is not visible in your operating system, outside of the app!

    I’m not sure it was the best option, but, as purchased, it does the job I needed. Ironically I ended up with the full ACDSee package, for all I only needed the cataloging form, and in fact do my small amount of post-processing just in Canon DPP4.