GeoSetter is a freeware tool for Windows for showing and changing geo data of image files (e.g. images taken by digital cameras). It is a very powerful and easy to use tool for adding all sorts of metadata to your digital images. It is the next step to the earlier Exifer program, also developed by Friedemann Schmidt.

Features Include:

• Reads and writes the formats JPEG and TIFF as well as camera RAW formats DNG (Adobe), CRW and CR2 (Canon), NEF (Nikon), MRW (Konica Minolta), PEF (Pentax), ORF (Olympus), ARW, SR2, SRF (Sony) and RAF (Fujifilm)
• Uses ExifTool from Phil Harvey for writing data
• Shows existing geo coordinates and tracks on embedded Google Maps map (requires internet connection)
• Setting geo data by using embedded Google Maps map (requires internet connection) or by entering known values for coordinates and altitude directly
• Automatic filling of location IPTC fields and altitude values (requires internet connection)
• Editable IPTC data (IPTC-NAA/XMP)
• Possibility to change taken date of images
• Synchronization with track files (NMEA, GPX, PLT, Sony LOG and others)
• Synchronization with already geo tagged images with buddy images (e.g. between RAW images and their corresponding JPEG images)
• Localizable user interface – English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Russian and Norwegian language is available at the moment

I have found GeoSetter to be one of the easiest and most reliable freeware programs out there for this sort of thing. Here is my quick and lazy bulleted review:

Strengths

• Images are easy to navigate.
• Editing geo data is simple and fast using the familiar Google Maps interface.
• Free.
• Still alive and being updated.
• Can add Flickr geo data tags.
• Allows saving of common GeoData locations.

Weaknesses

• Sometimes assigning the map position to an image fails.
• No batch processes for renaming or rotating.
• Saving the edited images is slow.
• Requires internet connection for some features.

Download GeoSetter via http://www.geosetter.de/

GeoSetter is copyrighted by Friedemann Schmidt and I make no claim that I have anything to do with it or want any money because of it. I just think it is a great program and you should use it.

Pen

Two female faces drawn from a book of Bruce Timm sketches. I tried to imitate his style in these sketches.

Pen

A man screams in the night.

Pen

A girl standing in the light. I wanted to play with light and dark in this sketch.

Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop

Exploration of portraiture and 3D in Flash.

Director, Flash, Photoshop, VR Worx

As part of a college field trip to Poland, we teamed up with the Majdanek Museum in Lublin to create interactive educational pieces concerning the concentration camp.

Working in teams of 3-6, we spent several days photographing, scanning documents, and becoming familiar with the history of the camp.

Upon returning to the States, we had to share both what we learned and the digital files we gathered with class members were not part of the trip.

The group I was part of decided to create a virtual tour of the camp, using Apple’s Quicktime VR technology within a Flash/Director environment. The VR scenes themselves have graphical elements that relate to the larger interface, such as lines connecting typography and a camp map with direction pointer.

Our team was later approached to create a Polish version of the software, but the project eventually fell through.

Flash, Illustrator

Experimental interface and photo-manipulation used to study the interaction of objective verse emotional perception of 24 hours in my life.

The intro acts as a short tutorial. An objective, chronological depiction of the day is along the top, simple photographs in black and white with text presenting factual information. Along the left side, these same events are order according to emotional energy, with the best at the top and the worst at the bottom.

Pencil

A girl with her head titled down and her hair falling over her face. Drawn from a photo.

India Ink

India Ink

Colored Pencil

Tree studies done with different media and surfaces.