FastPhotoTagger Reviews

question: running windows 11. trying to delete tags that were input in windows or photo shop. Problem i have is when i delete in FastPhoto they are still attached to file when i view in windows explore. When i view in FastPhoto. , the tag is gone. Goal of using program is to be able to batch delete tags. thanks Like program for its simplicity .

It won't load any photos. It says "No Photos Loaded". I already install Java and Exiftool, run the program, select Exiftool, select an image folder, but no thumbnails appear. Just blank window. It works great on my Android phone, though.

I have no hesitation in recommending the app. It fits the needs of both Android and Windows users. The author is easily reached via email and always friedly to respond to new feature requests and ideas, no matter how crazy they could be. The hierarchy lists is something to appreciate, because no many apps for metatagging support such functionality (hopefully one day they'll be available in Android version too). Automation tools for exiftool within the app are also of some special regard. Finally, the powerful search options which take some time to learn, but once learnt they become time-savers and bring a real difference, especially when compared with some other apps.

It's amazing application! But i found little imperfection. Tager is changing original date/time of file creation, that is displayed by most file browsers, e.g. TotalCommander.

This is an incredible tool and I actually can't believe how few software address this issue when it is so needed. It worked perfect to edit tags (triple yay for abbreviations!!). However, I am trying to fill the Title field with the file's name. I wish there was a way to do that automatically (but Microsoft is more focused on adding the weather forecast in the task bar). So in Program Settings > Metadata, I filled the Title field with File:System:Filename, and it appears fine in FastPhotoTagger, but doesn't actually apply it to the file as there's no way to save. Of course, in Windows Explorer, Titles are still blank. Am I missing something?

Had to download exiftool(-k+).exe then edit the name to exiftool.exe so that tagger would recognize it. Phil Harvey has the hint on his site. Used Internet Explorer to create the Java environment as Edge and Google no longer support Java. Using Windows 10

Amazing! Has a friendly interface that lets you quickly perform basic tagging functions with very little learning curve. And you can apply those changes to a single file or a huge number of files you select! At the same time, it includes a powerful "command feature" that allows advanced users to execute just about any EXIF tag function under the sun. Another plus: Excellent documentation that is well written and easy to understand. P.S. I created a SourceForge account just so I could spread the word about what a great program this is. Best of luck in all future endeavors to dennis508. I wish I could kick in a donation, but can't find a button for that.

I LOVE this - I just made an account here to give a good rating. I've been looking for a little tool like this since forever, thank you so much! It works very well, just wish it would be able to recognize files with letters like ö, ä, ü etc in the name - but that's not an issue so it's great!

This thing is soooo good! Tagging images is a chore I used to fear. Now, I've got the feeling that maybe, just maybe, those days are over. Thanks and congratulations to the author

Very nice tool . The product is highly configurable and once the fields to be modified have been chosen, it presents a series of very useful tools for their management. Thank's a lot!

Tagging your images is Boring! And this little app is by far the best at quickly entering your metadata. I have tested many and this tool does the job. The developer has thought out the most efficient means of getting your title, description, keywords or any other metadata embedding in your photo files. The interface takes a bit time to understand how it works and reading the help doc is recommended. Once you customize the settings and create a .txt file of your main keywords it rocks. The author has been open to the suggestions I made and it keeps getting better. Thanks Dennis for taking some of the drudgery out of this process.

Very nice tool - the only minor annoyance is that, by default, the images are listed oldest first which is not usually what people need. There is an option to change to newest first but I would suggest making that the initial default.

Can’t find the download link for the windows version. Contains JAR files which I assume is NOT windows.. Can someone send me a link for the windows version please ? Red.Dwarf4Ever@yahoo.com

Certainly a helpful program, but has its issues. Hopefully, the author can makes some changes based on this to make it easier and more efficient to use. 1) When downloading ExifTool, the file is named exiftool(-k).exe. Pointing to that just keeps presenting you with the dialog to choose the exe. This is confusing, and could be resolved either by just using whatever file the user selects, trusting that they know what they're doing, regardless of the name of the file, or simply presenting an error telling the user to make sure the file is named exactly "ExifTool.exe." I figured it out by looking in the readme, but that really shouldn't be necessary for something so basic. 2) Some of the settings, especially thumbnail size, should be accessible on the main interface, to allow changing them quickly and easily, not buried in the program settings. 3) The buttons along the left edge are, for the most part, not very descriptive of their action, which slows down use as you hover over each one to find the one you want. Sure, if you use the program a lot, you might learn them, but by then, you're probably about done using it. I'd suggest more representative icons as well as labels, which could certainly be optional (this would be changed in settings). 4) Allowing 'Enter' to activate changes instead of requiring the user to click on the 'Change' button would speed things up dramatically. 5) Allowing the metadata fields to be moved around would make it more flexible for maximizing the use of space. For example, fullscreen, I have half the height about an inch wide wasted on the right side under the buttons and two-thirds the height and about 4-5" wasted under the metadata fields on the right. If I could put the metadata fields on the left under the buttons, or along the bottom (in columns, so on my 23" widescreen monitor I could fit four columns, meaning the height of the metadata section would only take up enough space to fit two items/rows), I could fit more pictures on the screen at a time. 6) One feature I would really like to see is the ability to add a list of tags, then have it display those with checkboxes so you can quickly select the ones that apply to each picture or group of pictures. I think this would be much quicker and easier than the current method, and it would ensure consistency in the tags. If this were done, the tags should be able to be reordered, so more commonly used ones would be at the top of the list, and there should still be a box to enter any miscellaneous ones not included in the main list. 7) One issue I keep running into is not being able to tell who's in a picture based on the thumbnail. I've made them quite large (448), and at that size it's already a bit of a pain since I can only fit 2.5 rows and 3 columns on-screen, but still some photos I can't tell. The problem is, you might be halfway through a folder, with a bunch of files already selected, when you find one, so now you have to either go ahead an tag those so you can view the one you're not sure of, or skip it and come back later, but then you have to remember and find it/them. One solution to this would be a button that remembers the selected images, so you can click it, preview the image in question, click the button again to reselect them, and keep going. Better yet, if one or more files are selected and an image is previewed, it could automatically remember which ones were selected, and you could just click a button to reselect them. Another option would be to have it remember the last tag entry made, and when clicking in the tag box it would automatically enter that and highlight it, so if it's what you want you just click enter and, if not, you hit backspace/delete. 8) I've found zooming a bit inconsistent, where usually it works but sometimes it doesn't. 9) It would be nice if you could hold the left or right mouse button (LMB or RMB) while scrolling on a preview to change to the next/previous image instead of zooming. 10) There's no way to go from a selected folder/directory to a child folder. The only way to do this is to drag it from Windows Explorer. 11) Finally, an issue I ran across once, which was a major PITA, was I accidentally tagged a bunch of photos with the wrong tag. Since they had "***multiple_values***," I couldn't just remove it. An undo button would have gone a long way here, but also perhaps the ability to view ALL tags, even if they aren't on all selected photos, so any one particular tag could be removed. It seems this would be useful if, down the road, you decided you wanted to change a tag to something else. There could even be a 'Find and Replace' feature for this. All-in-all, I'd say this is a decent program with a lot of room for improvement. I'm not sure if there's anything better, as this is the first one I've tried, so for now I'll give it 4 stars because it does work and it does make things easier. UPDATE A couple other thoughts after some more use: - make the metadata boxes resizable, so they can be made taller (so all tags will be visible when the box isn't long enough) - add a cancel button, to revert all tags changed but not yet applied (obviously this would require a prompt to avoid doing it accidentally, and could even be buried somewhere. Currently the program has to be closed and reopened to achieve this (though admittedly that's not a big deal, and this is a very minor thing). UPDATE 2 Another thing I forgot to mention is that it should always put a semicolon at the end of the tags so you don't have to manually add one when adding more.

I struggled a bit to get FastPhotoTagger to do what I needed, but that was due partly to my having unknowingly installed the wrong version of exiftool and partly to my not setting up FastPhotoTagger correctly. (If your exiftool download unzips into a mutli-file, multi-directory structure you've got the wrong one.) However, after a good deal of personal help from FastPhotoTagger's author, Dennis Damico, I have both doing exactly what I wanted, which was to edit a slightly obscure exif tag that no other product, including Lightroom, Photoshop, and IrfanView, could touch. After all that I'm very happy to give Dennis a considerably higher rating than my original two stars. [original review for context] I'm somewhat dismayed. I installed the program and pointed it to exiftool, which is in a subdirectory in my C: root directory. It runs and opens, but will not display any images. I suspect that this may be because exiftool is a Perl program but Tagger is in Java. However, I'm very far from expert in this. I'd be grateful for any help, because Tagger seems to have the functionality I need, other exif editors have not been satisfactory, and I really don't want to have to use command-line syntax unless there is absolutely no other option.

This Tool is absolutely great! I can subscribe to the comments of canyon666 and thivi54. Unlike other MetaData editing software and databases FastPhotoTagger leaves your files where they are resp. where you want them to be on your hard disk. Nonetheless you can search your files by sophisticated combined search and filter queries. And it is quick! Thank you for this peace of software! For those who are interested: I opened two Posts in the WordPress support forum, in wich I describe how I use FastPhotoTagger in combination with two plugins. Just enter "How to use exif_read_data and ALL_IPTC" and "Watermarking deletes EXIF, IPTC and XMP MetaData" as search string in the support forum.

This is an excellent application. I've played with lots of other metadata tagging applications and they all disappointed me as they do not let me put my metadata where I want to. FastPhotoTagger is the first one I've found that lets me manage my metadata as I want. The fact that it is a GUI for exiftool means that it inherently handles metadata reliably and 'correctly'. The combination of ease of use and configurability make it a 'killer app' for anyone like me who wants to add metadata to their photos without having to constantly wrestle with exiftool.