在之前的文章中，我谈到了将人物标签(People tags)添加到Windows 照片库(Windows Photo Gallery)中的图像。如果您查看过照片库(Photo Gallery)，就会知道人物标签并不是您可以添加到图像中的唯一标识符。在本教程中，我将讨论添加Geotags和Captions。将此类标签添加到您的照片中非常耗时，但这是值得的。一旦您确定了您的图像，它们就会变得特别容易搜索。
如何在Windows 照片库中添加(Windows Photo Gallery)地理标记(Geotags)
地理(Geotag)标签可让您使用拍摄照片的位置标记图像。不过，这里有一个小麻烦：照片库(Photo Gallery)会在您输入名称时建议位置，并且它会从Bing获取这些建议。如果您在放置地理标签时没有有效的互联网连接(internet connection)，您将不会获得该建议列表。
我将用我在大峡谷(Grand Canyon)度假期间的照片演示地理标记。当您打开照片库(Photo Gallery)并选择主页(Home)选项卡时，您会在右侧的边栏中看到标记选项。
您需要选择一张或多张图像才能使这些标记命令处于活动状态。如果您尚未选择任何照片，则地理标记(Geotag)命令将显示为灰色，如下面功能区中“主页”(Home)选项卡的屏幕截图所示。如果要选择照片库(Photo Gallery)中的所有图像，可以单击一个图像，然后按Ctrl+A，也可以使用功能区中的“全选”(Select All)命令。如果您不想选择所有图像，您可以Ctrl+click或Shift+click来选择您想要的图像。
选择图像后，单击右侧边栏中或功能区中的添加地理标记。(Add geotag)单击功能区会将您带到侧边栏。
开始输入您要使用的地理标签。不幸的是，Bing没有每个位置的列表，因此即使像大峡谷(Grand Canyon)这样著名的位置也可能不会出现。这很烦人，因为这意味着您的地理标签可能比您想要的精确得多。如您所见，我输入了Grand Canyon和Photo Gallery并没有给我任何建议。
因此，由于Bing不知道Grand Canyon，我尝试使用Arizona作为通用地理标记。它会让我选择“AZ，美国”。("AZ, United States.")
按Enter将该标签应用于所有选定的照片。
如果要删除地理标签，请选择要从中删除标签的照片，然后单击标签将其选中，然后单击该标签旁边的X。
如何为Windows照片库(Windows Photo Gallery)中的图像添加(Images)标题(Captions)
我的假期照片是用一台老式且相当原始的数码相机拍摄的，它为拍摄的所有照片添加了自己的标题。如您所见，它几乎没有帮助。它甚至无法识别是哪个相机拍摄的照片！
让我们看看如何添加更多信息的标题。我将选择一组在同一趟亚利桑那州旅行中在(Arizona)Meteor Crater拍摄的照片。
我会将这些标题从“奥林巴斯数码相机”("Olympus Digital Camera")更改为“陨石坑”。("Meteor Crater.")单击标题会突出显示它。
然后我输入我想要的标题。
按 Enter 键将该标题应用于所有选定的照片。
删除标题的工作方式与删除地理标签相同。
如何在Windows 照片库中(Windows Photo Gallery)添加和管理描述性标签(Add & Manage Descriptive Tags)
我在创建自己的屏幕保护程序的教程中谈到了一些描述性标签。虽然人物标签(People tags)和地理(Geotags)标签特定于人物和地点，但描述性标签(Descriptive tags)可以是您想要的任何东西。您在此处输入的信息越多，搜索图像时就越容易找到它们。
在这里，我将选择一组在亚利桑那州(Arizona)弗拉格斯塔夫(Flagstaff)天文台(Observatory)拍摄的照片，并给它们一个描述性标签，以标识它们是在那里拍摄的。
在右侧的边栏中，单击“添加描述性标签”("Add descriptive tags")。如果您已经添加了一些描述性标签，当您单击时，您会在列表中看到您的其他标签。
输入您想要的内容，然后按 Enter 设置标签。
描述性标签(Descriptive tags)的好处在于它们不仅仅是“一劳永逸”的添加。你可以很容易地管理你的标签。在“主页”选项卡上，单击“(Home)描述性标签(Descriptive tag)”按钮右侧的向下箭头，您将获得一个简短的选择菜单。选择管理标签(Manage tags)。
这为您提供了另一组方便的选项。
右键单击(Right-click)任何标签，您将获得另一个选项菜单。
单击“添加新标签”("Add a new tag")将为您已经创建的标签添加一个子类别。
其他的都是不言自明的，除了"Convert to people tag"可能的例外。这有点复杂。如果您选择此选项，您选择的描述性标签将更改为人物标签，然后每张具有该描述性标签的照片都会有一个带有该名称的人物标签。如您所料，如果您已经有一个带有该名称的人员标签，则使用此命令可能会很棘手。
您将收到一条警告，提示您的新标签将与现有标签合并，因此请确保在单击转换(Convert)之前确实要执行此操作。
结论
您越彻底地识别照片，您以后就越容易找到它们。为他们提供比相机可能附加到每张照片上的标准信息更有用的标题也很有帮助。与其他类型的标签一样，添加这些标签可能很耗时，但如果您在将图像导入Windows 照片库(Windows Photo Gallery)时花时间去做，它可以为您节省大量的时间。
您有任何有用的建议或您使用标签和标题(tagging and captions)的创造性方式吗？请(Please)在评论中告诉我们。
How to Edit Tags & Captions for Your Pictures in Windows Photo Gallery
In a previous article, I talked about adding People tags to images in Windows Photo Gallery. If you've looked at Photo Gallery, you already know that people tags aren't the only identifiers you can add to your images. In this tutorial, I'll talk about adding Geotags and Captions. Adding such tags to your photos is time consuming, but it's worth it. Once you have identified your images they become especially easy to search.
How to Add Geotags in Windows Photo Gallery
A Geotag lets you tag the image with the location in which the photo was taken. There's a small complication here, though: Photo Gallery suggests locations as you type in a name, and it gets those suggestions from Bing. If you don't have an active internet connection when you go to place the geotags, you won't get that list of suggestions.
I'll demonstrate geotagging with my photos from our vacation to the Grand Canyon. When you open Photo Gallery and choose the Home tab, you'll see the tagging options in a sidebar on the right.
You'll need to select one or more images for those tagging commands to be active. If you haven't selected any photos yet, the Geotag command is greyed out, as you can see in the screenshot of the Home tab in the ribbon, below. If you want to select all the images in a Photo Gallery, you can either click on one image and then press Ctrl+A, or you can use the Select All command in the ribbon. If you don't want to select all the images, you can Ctrl+click or Shift+click to pick the ones you want.
After selecting your images, click on Add geotag in the right sidebar, or in the ribbon. Clicking the ribbon takes you to the sidebar.
Begin typing the geotag you want to use. Unfortunately, Bing doesn't have a list of every location, so even one as well known as the Grand Canyon might not appear. This is quite an annoyance, since it means your geotags may be a lot less precise than you want. As you can see, I've typed in Grand Canyon and Photo Gallery has offered me no suggestions.
So, since Bing doesn't know the Grand Canyon, I've tried using Arizona as a general geotag. It's going to let me select "AZ, United States."
Pressing Enter applies that tag to all selected photos.
If you want to remove a geotag, select the photos from which you wish to remove the tags, and then click on the tag to select it, then click the X next to that tag.
How to Add Captions to Images in Windows Photo Gallery
My vacation photos were taken with an old and rather primitive digital camera, which added its own caption to all the photos it took. As you can see, it's about as un-helpful as it gets; it doesn't even identify which camera took the pictures!
Let's see how to add a more informative caption. I'm going to select a small group of pictures that were taken at Meteor Crater on the same trip to Arizona.
I'll change the caption on those from "Olympus Digital Camera" to "Meteor Crater." Clicking on the caption highlights it.
Then I type in the caption I want.
Pressing enter applies that caption to all the selected photos.
Removing the caption works the same way as removing a geotag.
How to Add & Manage Descriptive Tags in Windows Photo Gallery
I talked a little about descriptive tags in my tutorial on creating your own screen savers. While People tags and Geotags are specific to people and places, Descriptive tags can be anything you want. The more information you put here, the easier it will be to find the images when you search for them.
Here I'm going to select a group of photos taken at the Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and give them all a descriptive tag that identifies them as having been taken there.
In the sidebar on the right, click on "Add descriptive tags". If you've already added some descriptive tags, when you click you'll see your other tags in a list.
Type in what you want and press enter to set the tag.
The nice thing about Descriptive tags is that they're not just a "once and for all" addition. You can manage your tags quite easily. On the Home tab, click the down-arrow to the right of the Descriptive tag button, and you'll get a short menu of choices. Choose Manage tags.
This gives you another handy set of options.
Right-click on any tag, and you'll get another menu of options.
Clicking on "Add a new tag" will add a sub-category to the tag you've already created.
The others are self-explanatory, with the possible exception of "Convert to people tag". This is a little more complicated. If you choose this option, the descriptive tag you've chosen will be changed to a people tag, and every photo that has that descriptive tag will then have a people tag with that name instead. As you might expect, using this command might be tricky, if you already have a people tag with that name.
You'll get a warning that your new tag will be combined with the existing tag, so be sure you really want to do this before you click Convert.
Conclusion
The more thoroughly you identify your photos, the easier it will be for you to find them later. It's also helpful to give them captions that are more useful than the standard information your camera may attach to every photo it takes. As with the other kinds of tags, adding these might be time consuming, but if you spend the time to do it when you import the images into Windows Photo Gallery, it can save you plenty of time later on.
Do you have any helpful suggestions or creative ways you've used tagging and captions? Please tell us about it in the comments.
