“You have been tagged in a Photo by XYZ.” How many times have you received such messages in Facebook? Well if you are a party guy than off course many times. Photo tagging is an important feature allowing you to invite your friends to view the shared photo in facebook.

Flickr, one of the largest photo sharing portal had been lagging this particular feature. Though you could add a tag to the photo, it wasn’t as interesting as in Facebook. But Flickr has recently launched photo-tagging tool and is said to be better than that of Facebook.

Its new “People In Photos” feature is long overdue. With it, you’ll be able to select a picture and start typing a person’s name, which will then scan your Flickr contacts to see who it should add as a tag to the picture. And like Facebook, you’ll be able to draw an outline around someone’s face to show exactly who they are in the picture.

The above image shows the way in which we can tag people, its quite similar to that of facebook. Once a name is typed, the engine searches for match from the list of contact and shows in drop down. The other very important feature is the opt-in and opt-out.

Flickr is offering that by allowing you to opt-out of being tagged in individual photos. And once you opt-out, unlike Facebook, no one can put you back into that photo. You can also set who is able to tag you in photos. And you can set who is able to tag people in photos that you shared.

Source : Techcruch