Easily Tag Your Photos Using Hot Spots with Picmeleo Alive

You can very easily tag your pictures by creating hot spots on your photos with Picmeleo Alive and embed the final picture in a blog post. What are hot spots? They are locations on a graphic where a notation will pop up when you mouse over. I can see this being very useful for digital scrapbooking layouts.

Picmeleo Alive Example

Mouse over the photo and you will see some green dots appear. Those are the hot spots that you create at Picmeleo Alive. When you mouse over the green dot directly, a bubble pops up with a note that I put there.

Using Picmeleo Alive to Create Hot Spots

This is what it looks like when you are adding the hot spots at the Picmeleo Alive site.

Be sure the picture you pull into Picmeleo Alive is the correct size for where you want to put it. If you resize the picture, the hot spots are not in the correct place. Once you are done creating your hot spots, you hit “Save” and then you get an option to make the picture either public or private (although right now you can only choose public). Then you see this screen:

You can embed the picture into a blog post or link directly to the picture at Picmeleo Alive. I like how easy it is to create the hot spots.

Uses for Picmeleo Alive

Expanding on details about a picture.

Sometimes I’m showing a picture of something and I want to point out the different areas of the picture. I can easily create the hot spots with Picmeleo Alive and even number them. I can write out the details about each number below the picture.

Family Reunion

Hot spots would be great for family reunion pictures too. We never remember who all the cousins are and you can easily label everyone.

Digital Scrapbooking

If you create a digital scrapbook page, you could label your layout with the credits for the supplies you used. How awesome would that be? No more trying to figure out which credit goes with which digital scrapbooking element. You could just mouse over the digital scrapbook element and the credit would pop up.