![]() ![]() It lacks face detection and mapping (there seems to be a 3rd-party plugin for the second one, however), as well as the output modules (slideshow, web and print). ![]() This workflow seems to be common among digital asset management software which is expensive and way more then I am looking for.Looking at Darktable, it seems to be far from close to LR. It allows some tagging and other features to discover old photos but some processes are a bit manual. The closest I have come is Lightroom which indexed the drive a little bit but the "thumbnails" and catalog is huge. I then merge those onto my external drive and kick off my backup process to clone them to other drives and sync to cloud. After that I run some custom scripts to export the data as -/. I also run PhotoSweeper to further de-dupe which analyzes the photos itself and I can leave the best ones remaining. The photos app does an OK job at de-duping any matches. I pull them from different devices (phones, camera, etc). My existing workflow is to import all photos on my mac to the Photos app. The most important aspect is that I can take the drives offline while the thumbnails and index remains within the app and re-indexing when connected again. This way I can browse through all my photos and figure out the original file path if I want to retrieve them. I am essentially looking to leave the original photos on external drives and have an app that indexes them and stores a customizable thumbnail with the app to view them on my local machine. I have been looking for a photo meta data app for a long time, not sure if this is something you have/will offer. I've actually already open-sourced some of the trickier bits: and. (I don't remember a corporation doing this open-source-on-close before, do you?) I guess I felt justified here because a) it is self-hosted, and b) I'd added my corporate mandate to open-source the codebase in case of business closure. I seen countless photo projects on github, but as complexity ramps up quickly, the installer script (if there is one) breaks, updates fail, there aren't any tests, and the author gets bored and moves on. It's a common need, and it's easy (and fun) to write a simple script that makes thumbnails from a folder of images. It seems like photo software (both closed and open source) is especially prone to dying on the vine. Having written many open source libraries (my rubygems have been downloaded several million times, my node packages are close to that, and I've contributed to other libraries for over a decade), I personally will choose open source projects over closed-source because I don't want to be victimized by abandonware or corporate whims. I'm giving heavy discounts to my beta testers that share feedback. ![]() ![]() I'm sending out another wave of beta testers later today, and during the beta it's free. It's closed-source because it's how I want to pay for my food and clothing, but it's a corporate mandate to open source in case of business closure, which is also explained in that blog post. Installation takes under a minute, and updates are automatic. It scales down to odroids, and up to as many CPUs as you can throw at it, and self-throttles CPU during library sync so the machine is still useable. PhotoStructure has a couple novel and unique approaches to navigation, which you can read about here: Scroll-reverse-chron and a search bar shouldn't cut it. Once you've got a huge library, though, it needs a novel UX. Importing aggressively coalesces duplicate images and videos using direct and inferred metadata, so even your downsized Google photos takeout will be deduped with your originals. Image source sets are used to minimize network data and maximize viewing quality. Corrupt images are detected automatically and culled. Videos are auto transcoded for mobile and desktop web use. Raw images have highlight restoration before rendering previews. Your library can be created on a Mac, saved on your NAS, then later opened and managed by a Linux box, seamlessly. PhotoStructure is browser-based (using Vue), and scales to hundreds of thousands of assets over millions of files. Personal plug: I'm working on PhotoStructure, after trying many, many open source photo projects (and being a committer for years of one of the most popular, "gallery.") ![]()
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