Easy Tagging ( as opposed to what we have now )

BobORama

In the absence of "bulk collecting" it would be good to be able to tag photos in a vastly easier and more efficient and rigorous taxonomical way rather than typing in "stuff" in an inconsistent way for thousands of images - which is horrendous.

Create a "tag palate" with the most frequently used tag at the top. Each acting as a toggle button. This pallate would be optionally visible from gallery / organize / individual photo view. It needs to be on the left or right so we do not have to scroll down to the thing.

In the individual photo view, one could rapidly scrub through their photos and toggle on / off the appropriate tags ( or add a new tag as desired, though that would become less frequent as you go along ) So with a few clicks, you eliminate a lot of typing, or even using the keyboard ( great for tablets ). It also imposes a standard tag nomenclature. The tags themselves would be metadata, so you could, if you decided, rename a tag, without redoing everything.

In the multiple photo case, the tag palate would display a super set of all tags on all of the selected photos. ( Gee, and if you add an extra 100 lines of code, shade the button in proportion to the number of images tagged. ) Toggling a tag on / off impacts the selected images.

THEN allow a rule to detect a tag, and you have useful smart galleries. AND you eliminate this key word hell. The key to this is having the tags be abstratc, and not snippets of text.

It also allows smugmug to maintain its own set of tags which are invariant to differences in language. For example someone in China, Peru, and Canada can find "red" + "birds" irrespective of the language used.

-- Bob

hankfou

re: Easy Tagging ( as opposed to what we have now )
Did you ever get this going? I need to do some bulk tagging too. Thanks.

BobORama wrote: »

In the absence of "bulk collecting" it would be good to be able to tag photos in a vastly easier and more efficient and rigorous taxonomical way rather than typing in "stuff" in an inconsistent way for thousands of images - which is horrendous.

Create a "tag palate" with the most frequently used tag at the top. Each acting as a toggle button. This pallate would be optionally visible from gallery / organize / individual photo view. It needs to be on the left or right so we do not have to scroll down to the thing.

In the individual photo view, one could rapidly scrub through their photos and toggle on / off the appropriate tags ( or add a new tag as desired, though that would become less frequent as you go along ) So with a few clicks, you eliminate a lot of typing, or even using the keyboard ( great for tablets ). It also imposes a standard tag nomenclature. The tags themselves would be metadata, so you could, if you decided, rename a tag, without redoing everything.

In the multiple photo case, the tag palate would display a super set of all tags on all of the selected photos. ( Gee, and if you add an extra 100 lines of code, shade the button in proportion to the number of images tagged. ) Toggling a tag on / off impacts the selected images.

THEN allow a rule to detect a tag, and you have useful smart galleries. AND you eliminate this key word hell. The key to this is having the tags be abstratc, and not snippets of text.

It also allows smugmug to maintain its own set of tags which are invariant to differences in language. For example someone in China, Peru, and Canada can find "red" + "birds" irrespective of the language used.

-- Bob