PhotoTag

Nowadays we take tons and tons of pics on our iPhones but  haven’t had a way to conveniently categorize, label and tag our pics without first uploading them to Facebook, a photo sharing website, or using external software on our computers.   PhotoTag photography app for iPhone lets you categorize, name, label and tag any photos directly on your iPhone.  It makes finding all of your photos a cinch!  With just a few touches you can select a photo, insert and label tags, name your photo, save and email it!

We all know the scenario, you’ve got a photo that you want to share with a friend, you talk it up like it’s the most amazing picture ever, then you spend the next 5 minutes scrolling through hundreds of images trying to find it.  I don’t know about you, but I’ve definitely had a few times where I talked up a pic, tried to show it to somebody, and after spending a few seemingly endless minutes trying to find it, my audience lost interest and pretty much told me, “It’s okay…show it to me later”.  Yeah, I take a lot of pics, but I’m guessing many other iPhone owners are just like me.  If so, you could probably use a much easier way to find your favorite pics.

PhotoTag is definitely a handy app that makes finding and sharing your favorite photos much easier.  Don’t expect a lot of glitz and glam with this app, it’s very plain looking.  There’s no crazy colors, flashy buttons, or wild sound effects.  When the app first opens the screen is dark and blank.  Press the Add Image button to get started.  Once you’ve selected a pic just press the Create Tag button to start labelling your pic.  You can add as many tags as you want and can easily show or hide any of them.  Using the Add Names button you can quickly insert tags for previously tagged people.  Just press the button, select a name from the list and BAM!  Once saved, you can edit, share, and delete a photo at any time.  From the View page you can conveniently delete photos, hide/show tags, and email them to all of your friends.

Overall, PhotoTag does a pretty decent job categorizing, labelling and tagging, and sharing photos.  Ideally we think there could be a few updates that would make the app even more convenient and fun to use.  For starters, we’d like to see the same colorful and fun looking theme used on the app load page incorporated throughout the entire app.  The current interface is a bit dark and simplistic.  Additional usability functionality would be a welcome addition.  Currently you can only add a one photo at a time.  It’d be nice to be able to select and import multiple photos at once so you don’t have to keep going back to the iPhone and scroll through all of the photos each time in order to select and import a single photo.  Along those same lines we’d like the ability to be able to share and delete more than one photo at a time.  Currently you have to view  a single photo to email it or delete it.  It’d be much nicer if you could delete entire categories from the View page with a single swipe and email multiple photos at once, perhaps even entire categories.

To sum it up, PhotoTag definitely makes finding your favorite photos on your iPhone much easier.  You can quickly tag photos so that when you share them with friends and family you can highlight certain parts of the picture with ease.  If you’ve got gobs and gobs of photos on your iPhone then you may just want to check this app out.  It’s pretty easy to use, and could save you from boring your friends and family as they watch you thumb through tons of images on your iPhone next time you’re dying to show them a new pic.

Posted by Ryan Johnson
on 12 9, 2009
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