Tagging Photos in Synology Photo Station
Synology Photo Station (SPS) allows users to download photos from their favourite social media apps, then tag and group them into albums. Once photos are downloaded, they can be tagged in a variety of ways including date captured, location, people in the photo, or even who was in the shot with you. Tagging photos ensures that all of your memories stay organized and easy to find. SPS has an intuitive tagging system that will teach you how to use it quickly and efficiently.
What's the best way to organize photos? Some folks like to organize their photos by date or event, but there are lots of other ways too. SPS tags your photos with the location and time they were taken. This way, you can find all your pictures of Paris in one place without having to search through dozens of folders for them. Occasionally, when you cross-reference different photo services, you might find that some photos were tagged incorrectly - don't worry you can always edit the tags!
People Tagging
SPS tags people by marking faces with a rectangle. For example, if there is a group photo of coworkers at a company party, one coworker can be tagged as the manager.
The person can then be identified with their self-image. The experimental automatic face recognition feature of Synology Photo Station is not that good, so I have turned it off.
Location Tagging
Synology Photo Station is a photo and video management system that allows you to sort and organize your content by location. It does this by adding geotag information to the metadata of the photos it imports. This means that pictures will have the location information embedded within the EXIF data, adding another layer of context to the photos. Users can tag photos with their geographic location via GPS data embedded in the photos or manually. This information will then show up in the map view within the app, allowing for easy browsing of photos based on where they were taken.
EXIF data is information stored in a JPEG (and other formats) file that can be read by the computer. It contains information such as the date and time the photo was taken, camera model, lens type, aperture, focal length, ISO speed, and much more.
JPEG is a file format that is used to store digital images. JPEGs are often used for photographs and other continuous-tone images.
General Tagging
Synology Photo Station allows users to define custom tags that aid in photo searches. Example tags might be event names, family-group names, project names, etc.
Miscellaneous
Batch Processing
Batches of photos can be conveniently tagged with Location and General tags. People tags cannot currently be applied in batches because the people tag needs the location of the face in the photo.
Importing photo metadata to Synology Photo Station from other sources
Importing information that one has entered in another photo database or editing program can be problematic. Because of the lack of metadata standards, there is little consensus between vendors. Often metadata tags are maintained internally inside the application and not embedded in the photo file. From what we've seen, most photo editors export metadata. For instance; the process requires an explicit action and other such factors like whatever they provide could be called "metadata"
Tagging Photos in Synology Photo Station
Synology Photo Station (SPS) allows users to download photos from their favourite social media apps, then tag and group them into albums. Once photos are downloaded, they can be tagged in a variety of ways including date captured, location, people in the photo, or even who was in the shot with you. Tagging photos ensures that all of your memories stay organized and easy to find. SPS has an intuitive tagging system that will teach you how to use it quickly and efficiently.
What's the best way to organize photos? Some folks like to organize their photos by date or event, but there are lots of other ways too. SPS tags your photos with the location and time they were taken. This way, you can find all your pictures of Paris in one place without having to search through dozens of folders for them. Occasionally, when you cross-reference different photo services, you might find that some photos were tagged incorrectly - don't worry you can always edit the tags!
People Tagging
SPS tags people by marking faces with a rectangle. For example, if there is a group photo of coworkers at a company party, one coworker can be tagged as the manager.
The person can then be identified with their self-image. The experimental automatic face recognition feature of Synology Photo Station is not that good, so I have turned it off.
Location Tagging
Synology Photo Station is a photo and video management system that allows you to sort and organize your content by location. It does this by adding geotag information to the metadata of the photos it imports. This means that pictures will have the location information embedded within the EXIF data, adding another layer of context to the photos. Users can tag photos with their geographic location via GPS data embedded in the photos or manually. This information will then show up in the map view within the app, allowing for easy browsing of photos based on where they were taken.
EXIF data is information stored in a JPEG (and other formats) file that can be read by the computer. It contains information such as the date and time the photo was taken, camera model, lens type, aperture, focal length, ISO speed, and much more.
JPEG is a file format that is used to store digital images. JPEGs are often used for photographs and other continuous-tone images.
General Tagging
Synology Photo Station allows users to define custom tags that aid in photo searches. Example tags might be event names, family-group names, project names, etc.
Miscellaneous
Batch Processing
Batches of photos can be conveniently tagged with Location and General tags. People tags cannot currently be applied in batches because the people tag needs the location of the face in the photo.
Importing photo metadata to Synology Photo Station from other sources
Importing information that one has entered in another photo database or editing program can be problematic. Because of the lack of metadata standards, there is little consensus between vendors on how metadata should be labelled, etc. From what we've seen, photos can differ a lot in the specific type and names of the metadata which is embedded from photo editors or aggregation services.
As a precaution, it should be noted that most photo editors do not embed user metadata into the photo file unless it is explicitly requested.
As a general rule, it is probably best to tag the new photos straight from the camera in SPS. SPS embeds user-entered metadata into a photo file without any further instruction from us. When we migrate photos to SPS from other databases, preserving all metadata can be difficult. Here are some of my suggestions when doing these tag migrations.
Google Photos to SPS
To migrate your photos from Google Photos, you can use Google Takeout. This will allow you to download all of your data from many different websites or devices. You can also use this tool to export your photos as a zip file. The data that is exported will not be as high-quality as what is displayed on the site. However, if you're looking for a way to back up your photos offline, this is a good option to explore.
Google Photos Metadata Fixer is an inexpensive tool for merging the metadata included in the JSON files and photos to embed some of the metadata that Google doesn't specifically embed in the Google takeout.
Photoshop Elements (PSE) to Synology Photo Station
When tagging photos in PSE, make sure to write the metadata to the tagged files. When those files are exported to SPS, the tags will be there, but the people tags will be included as general tags.
Luminar AI to Synology Photo Station
Luminar AI is a photo editing software that has received positive feedback for its intuitive design and simplistic user interface. One of the most notable critiques is about how it offers no tagging capabilities, which hampers the usefulness of the program.
I have been using this program for several months now, and I have to say that I enjoy the user interface. It is so easy to use and very user-friendly. But, unfortunately, it will require you to do all of your tagging in SPS. This is not an issue for me, but many people might find this frustrating. With SPS you can tag any text on your slides at any time with the touch of a button which makes it very intuitive.
Skylum is a company that provides photo editing software for Mac and Windows, but Skylum products are not very good at tagging photos. The Skylum products mainly consist of Luminar, Aurora HDR, Enlight, and Skylum Mobile. The Skylum Mobile app is used to apply filters to photos on the go, while the other three programs are more geared towards professional-grade edits.
On1 Photo Raw (ON1) to Synology Photo Station
Unsurprisingly, ON1 is a very competent photo editor. In addition to offering a wide range of features, it also offers users tagging abilities with its "tags" feature.
There are many ways to tag photos and these tags should be added before uploading the pictures. When using this feature, one must remember that the tags will not be embedded unless explicitly commanded.
When those files are exported to SPS, the tags will be there, but the people tags will be included as general tags.
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