Modern digital cameras come with a wide array of useful built-in features. Among these features, it would be a shame to overlook certain camera’s GPS capabilities. Why is this important? Well, because having a built-in GPS will give you the opportunity to automatically have the geographic coordinates embedded in each shot you take. Geographic coordinate information such as for instance the latitude, longitude or altitude are stored in the EXIF metadata of each JPG file.
Inserting the GPS coordinates into your photos is a great way to know with precision where you were when you took that photo. You can accomplish this task without too much difficulties. All you have to do is transfer your pictures to your PC or Mac and then resort to a tool capable of reading and automatically imprinting the information into your images. Enter BatchPhoto.
BatchPhoto is a photo editor for Windows and Mac designed to batch edit images for improved productivity. The tool offers support for both EXIF and IPTC metadata, enabling you to add and customize a series of technical details such as the camera make and model, the date and time, ISO speed or GPS data. On top of that, it’s super easy to do it. How easy? Well, all you have to do is follow a three-step process:
Step 1
The first step of the process is where you add your photos. You can do this in many ways: click on the Add Photos button to add files individually, on the Add button to add a folder with or without subfolders. Of course, you’re also free to use drag & drop.
Step 2
After you’ve loaded your images into the app, you can go to the second step called Edit Photos. This is where you can apply all the desired edits to your pictures. In our particular case, insert the GPS coordinates.
In order to do that, all you have to do is go to Add Filter > Annotate > Watermark-Text. Next click on the Add Keyword button and select GPS. BatchPhoto enables you to add the latitude, longitude and altitude to your photos.
Once you’ve inserted them into the picture, you can start the customizing process. The app gives you the possibility to choose the size of the text and the desired placement, to rotate the text to a certain angle, select the font type and color and adjust the transparency level.
Besides being able to imprint the longitude and latitude into photos, BatchPhoto offers many other options to further edit your pictures. You can optimize them for web use by automatically cropping and rotating, by resizing, converting or watermarking them. At the same time you can adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation or sharpness, reduce the noise, as well as apply special effects like black & white, blur or sepia.
Step 3
Once you’re done editing, you can move on to the third and last step called Setup. This is where you set up your final configuration. There are options to save the new photos on a local folder, upload them to FTP or send them via email. You can also choose to keep the original image format or convert to another one.
Next just hit the Process button and the program will automatically apply the edits made to all your images.
BatchPhoto places emphasis on improving productivity. For that purpose, in addition to the batch processing option, the app gives you the possibility to save your frequently-used operations as Profiles and just load them in future editing sessions. This way you’ll never have to repeat the same editing process again.
If you’d like to try it, you can download a fully-featured trial version of BatchPhoto here.