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Lightroom is Adobe’s professional photo cataloguing program. Your photos are stored as thumbnails and previews in a centralised database, or ‘library’ which makes it much easier to organise your photos, add keywords, captions and other metadata and carry out searches [...]
Geotagging is where digital photos are marked with their geographical location. This is usually done with a GPS receiver which may be built into the camera or carried around separately. This means you can then browse your photos by their [...]
Eye-Fi Explore cards can also ‘geotag’ your photos. This isn’t done directly within the camera, though – the location information is added to the photos later using software on your computer. Eye-Fi cards don’t contain a conventional GPS receiver. Instead, [...]
Digital cameras embed a great deal of information invisibly in image files, and this information can be viewed in an appropriate image-editing or image-cataloguing program. EXIF data usually includes the make and model of the camera used to take the [...]