Tagging Images

It is easy to take hundreds of photos at an important event like a wedding or a marathon. After you have transferred your photos to your computer, you may want to review them and sort out your favorites. Tagging is a fast and easy way to identify your best photos or to separate them for editing or review.

The tagging checkbox is at the bottom right corner of the thumbnails. Click the checkbox to tag or un-tag photos. Photos remain tagged until you clear the checkmark from the checkbox.

You can display all your tagged photos with one click by clicking Tagged under Special items in the Catalog pane. Tagging, like categories and ratings, is a way to set aside, organize, and group your photos without moving the files into different folders.

Tagging is intended as a temporary means of separating your images. Once tagged, you can move or apply categories and ratings to the images, and then clear all of the tags. Categories, ratings, color labels, and folders are more effective for organizing and grouping your images over a long period of time.

To Tag a Selected Image:

• Use the keyboard shortcut \ backslash key to toggle the tag on.
• Select the checkbox in the bottom right corner of the thumbnail.
• Right-click on one or more thumbnails and select Tag.
• In the Properties pane, select the tag checkbox at the top left corner in the Metadata tab.

To Untag a Selected Image:

• Use the keyboard shortcut \ backslash key to toggle the tag off.
• In the Properties pane, uncheck the tag checkbox at the top left corner in the Metadata tab.

To Untag All Tagged Images:

1. Click Tagged in the Catalog pane to display all tagged files in the File List pane.
2. Use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + A to select all.
3. Click the backslash key \ to toggle the tag off.

To Display Tagged Photos:

In Manage mode, click View | Catalog to display the Catalog pane, then click Tagged in the Special Items section.

Tagged photos from all your folders display in the File List pane.

To Tag a Photo in View Mode:

Do one of the following:

• In View mode, select the checkbox in the bottom right corner of the status bar.
• In View mode, click View | Properties to display the Properties pane, click the Metadata tab, then select the Tagged checkbox in the top left corner.

To Tag a Photo When You Are Comparing Images:

1. In the Comparison List, select the checkbox in the bottom right corner of the image thumbnails.
2. Click OK. The Compare Images Viewer closes. You will see a checkmark in the checkbox of the images that you tagged.

See Also:

• About the ACDSee Database
• Organizing with the Catalog Pane
• Using the Properties Pane