Released on = November 17, 2006, 4:09 am

Press Release Author = Cogitum LC

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Cogitum LC, a provider of software for personal content
management, has released FotoTagger 2.1 (http://www.fototagger.com), the new version
of its popular image annotation program.


Press Release Body = ASHBURN, VA, USA - November 17, 2006. Cogitum LC, a provider of
software for personal content management, has released FotoTagger 2.1
(http://www.fototagger.com), the new version of its popular image annotation
program.

FotoTagger is a free desktop tool designed for both personal and professional users
of digital images, including users of photo cameras, professional photographers,
travelers, family historians, genealogists, and documentation managers. It lets them
effectively record and share information about content of images, as well as make
image search much more relevant and precise.

Every person who has digital photos faces the problem of forgetting valuable
information about people or objects captured on an image. Moreover, as the number of
images grows, an ability to quickly find the desired image becomes crucial.
FotoTagger eliminates this problem by allowing users to annotate individual elements
or parts of the image. Users can place easy-to-hide annotation tags directly on a
picture in order to describe specific objects. Each tag can have an arbitrary
location and contain a free text capturing the names of the people, links to Web
sites or other images, explanations, translations of inscriptions, and more. The
tags can be hidden in a click of a button so the original view is never spoiled.

As images are annotated, FotoTagger lets users easily find people or objects by
their names or other text typed in the tags across piles of digital pictures. With
FotoTagger, there is no need to use old-fashion techniques trying to meaningfully
name the file or create a hierarchy of folders on a hard disk. A user can enter the
name of a person and FotoTagger will find all pictures where this person is
captured.

To let users share annotation with an image wherever it goes, annotation tags are
embedded in an ordinary JPEG file meaning the image content description always stays
with the image itself. With FotoTagger, users can publish tagged photos to
Blogger.com, LiveJournal, as well as to their own Web sites. Flickr users can use
FotoTagger as a desktop enhancement of their Flickr accounts. They can tag photos
with FotoTagger and upload them to a Flickr set in a click of a button. FotoTagger
tags are converted into editable Flickr notes. Moreover, photos hosted on Flickr can
be downloaded to FotoTagger with Flickr notes transformed to editable FotoTagger
tags.

FotoTagger 2.1 makes image annotation more convenient for a user and provides new
opportunities for integration with image editing applications:

- Matte. Matte is a blank resizable and movable space around the image that allows
placing textual annotations out of image borders and keeping them visible when the
image is shared.

- Zoom in/out. With the new version of FotoTagger, a user can easily zoom in and
zoom out an image. Zooming is applied to image view only so it does not affect the
actual size of the image.

- Editing an image in an external image editing software while preserving
annotations. Saving an annotated image in an image editing program that does not
support FotoML, the format used by FotoTagger for storing annotations, can cause
removing annotations from the JPEG file. To let a user preserve the work, FotoTagger
provides a special mechanism that temporarily saves annotations in an external file
when an image editor is launched and puts annotations back when editing is finished.

The current personal version of FotoTagger supports what could be called "3F
principle" 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.

About Cogitum LC
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 contacting Leonid Malkov at Lmalkov@cogitum.com.

Web Site = http://www.fototagger.com

Contact Details = Address: 21339 Fairhunt Drive, Ashburn
USA

Phone Number: 703-858-2377
Email: tagger@fototagger.com