#Add geotag to photo how to#

But what if it is an obscure nature location that you can’t find on a map with any degree or certainty? Or you have no clue which quaint little village you were in when the photo was taken?Â Whenever you take a photo that you think will be a keeper and one of your favorites, grab a shot at the same location with your smart phone so you will have the GPS coordinates for later on. If it is a well know location that you can find on a map, you can get the GPS data via Google Maps as described above. If you don’t keep track of GPS information now, I would suggest you start – at least for your best photos. Lightroom can also take GPS information from a photo taken with one camera (like yourÂ smart phone) and add it to photos taken at the same location with another camera (like your DSLR). Lightroom will add the GPS coordinates to the photo. Open Lightroom’sÂ mapping feature and click the spot on the map where the photo was taken. Partial screen capture in Adobe Lightroom. You can add the GPS coordinates in Adobe Lightroom without going to an external map.īuddhist Temple, Keller Texas. If you can find the location of your photo on a map and have Adobe Lightroom, the whole process is much simpler. Smart phone GPS data is preferred because it is usually more accurate than picking a spot on a map. At a less familiar location it would be harder to pinpoint my exact location. I have spent many a morning on this section of lake shore so I know it well. I was far enough north on the lake shore that the ends of the dead trees in the water (clearly visible in the above satellite image) were lined up with the large trees on the left side of my photo and mostly hidden in the shadows. I knew the large trees were behind me and to my right and the smaller trees were behind me and to my left. The GPS data from picking a location on this map is very close to the GPS data from my iPhone photo, but I had a very good idea where I was on the lake shore when I took the photo. You can copy and paste these coordinates into a GPS Converter and follow the process in the above section to use Adobe Bridge to add these coordinates to your photo. If you click on the coordinates in the box, they will appear in a degrees, minutes, and seconds GPS format in the area at the upper left.

You will see a location box with your GPS coordinates in degrees and fractions of a degree.

Put your cursor over your photo location and click on the map to drop a pin. Sprague Lake photo location in Google Maps. Turn it on and you are good to go – all of your photos will be geotagged (provided your phone/camera can pick up a signal from the GPS satellites). You can turn the built in GPS receiver off and on in the menu system. Most smart phones and many point and shoot cameras can add GPS coordinates to the metadata of your photos every time you click the shutter.

#Add geotag to photo how to#

How to Get GPS Information Into Your Photos Photo editors also look for photos of specific locations via geotagged images on a map. If they go looking on a site with geotagged images to buy a print of the Maroon Bells, you want your photo to show up. Some day a tourist will be at the Maroon Bells and the light will be terrible. If you want people to find your photos based on location, geotagging your images is a good idea. When I am on Google Earth, little photo icons show up to indicate photos people have taken from that location. There are popular photo sharing sites (Flickr, Google+, Picasa, Tumblr, and SmugMug) that use GPS information in the metadata to show photos by location on a map. GPS is also helpful for marketing your work.

That is very handy when you want to find all of the photos you have taken at Sprague Lake over the years (or any other location). If your photos have GPS coordinates, Adobe Lightroom has a mapping feature to show you all of your photos by location. GPS info in the metadata will help you out. But sooner or later you are going to look at a photo and wonder which Colorado back road you were on. You aren’t going to wonder where you were when you took a picture of the Golden GateÂ Bridge. Photographer and Aspen, Marshall Pass, Colorado.