Cogitum Launches New Version of FotoTagger Image Annotation Tool

July 11, 2006. Ashburn, VA, USA

Cogitum LC, a provider of software for personal content management, has launched the latest version of FotoTagger ( http://www.fototagger.com), a popular tool for image annotation.

FotoTagger 1.7 is a step forward in implementation of a Cogitum initiative on providing a simple and easy-to-use tool for creating meaningfully annotated pictures with a new personal or social value. These are family photos and travel pictures, paintings and educational images, children drawings and archaeological photos - any images where identifying objects and providing historical, cultural, or economical background can help a user convey more knowledge for memorizing or sharing across communities.

FotoTagger 1.7 provides both bloggers and desktop users with more abilities to add such new value to images. In addition to the existing image annotation capabilities, with FotoTagger 1.7, users can:

Create callouts to precisely mark notable details. This new feature is especially useful for those users who have pictures, like group family photos, where an ability to pinpoint a particular person is crucial.
Identify boundaries of compound objects. Now users can assign a single annotation to a group of multiple objects that can be helpful, for example, while commenting sights on travel pictures.
Facilitate understanding of annotations by customizing their font and color. With FotoTagger 1.7 annotations can be distinctly viewed regardless of specific background colors.

Being a desktop application, FotoTagger enables users to tag pictures located on a hard disk without having to upload them to the Web. Then bloggers can publish annotated images to Blogger.com or LiveJournal directly from FotoTagger while desktop users are able to enjoy an ability to search across the annotations. The tool also offers other means for sharing images, such as email and exporting to HTML for easy publishing on the Web.

The current personal version of FotoTagger supports what could be called вЂњ3F principleвЂќ F1: Free of charge; F2: Free of ads; F3: Free of spyware and privacy intrusion.

FotoTagger can be downloaded from the official product Website http://www.fototagger.com. This Website also provides various examples of possible FotoTagger applications, help documentation, and FAQ.

Company: Cogitum is an innovative software developing company with several award-winning personal software tools, including Co-Tracker and Co-Citer that gained total hundreds of thousands downloads.

More information can be obtained by contacting a company representative at 1-703-858-2377 or by Lmalkov@cogitum.com.

Examples of using FotoTagger in family projects and commenting traveling pictures can be found at the FotoTagger website.