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Just an idea: Maybe a simple photo editor would fit in nicely? Crop, rotate and adjust the colors/brightness/contrast.
And ... please let me rotate videos that are accidentally 90 degrees off.
Does it not already have basic image editing? I can crop/rotate and apply some preset filters.
I disagree.
Yes, there is some editing capability in the app, but it doesn't edit the image, it stores a new file in your local (non-immich) gallery. As I don't sync this particular folder on my phone, I had to reupload it - and now have this image twice in immich, and one version with the wrong timestamp (now).
That's barely any more helpful than downloading the image and editing it with another app.
I think this highlights the difficulty with “basic” image editing. For example, with G Photos or Mac Photos, or others, you can edit, and the edited version is what you’ll see by default going forward, but the original is still there. This is why I highlighted rotation. That’s strictly a metadata change, AFAIK. Last thing I read on their site was they were hung up getting it to work properly with HEIF.
Basic photo editing capabilities are planned after stable release, this year :)
That's what they said last year! And the year before!
Maybe not the stable part.
I'm just learning about the software but all the tasks you listed (crop, rotate and adjust), can be done easily with imagemagick simple one-liners.
For example:
Convert in.jpg -rotate out.jpgOr
Using the auto-orient option or using jhead.
Why is it so hard for this app to implement it?
I know nothing about coding, but its probably not trivial in a project the size of immich to add "one simple one-liner".
Think of the Web UI, the mobile apps, the internal API, the filesystem handling, preview generation etc.
I'm sure it can be done, but it probably takes a couple of days.
Also ImageTragick was a thing, there are definitely security implications to adding dependencies to implement a feature in this way (especially on a shared instance). The API at the very least needs to handle auth, so that your images and videos don't get rotated by others.
Then you have UX, you may want to show to the user that things have rotated (otherwise button will be deemed non-functional, even if it uses this one-liner behind the scenes), but probably don't want to transfer the entire video multiple times to show this (too slow, costs data).
Yeah, it is one thing to add a one liner, but another to make a well implemented feature.
Once you implement Authentication/Authorization it's fairly simple to add a new function.
I think here, the problem is not the complexity of the task, but the developer's prioritization based on all the backlogged features.
Still, users can do this on their own. Directly on the folder, autorotating all pictures using wildcards.
I would add file types to the list. JPEG is easy to rotate, but what about other image filetypes, images with embedded video, different video file formats etc.
You can start with what you can. What can provide the most value and iteratively improve from there.
Sometimes as a developer or even product manager, you don't know what feature complete really means until people start using it.
Oh, by the way: https://imagemagick.org/script/formats.php
Forgive me if I'm being dumb... But is there a way to share a photo with my own editor, then save the result as an "edited" version of that asset? Currently if I send it to Snapseed, and save it, it will be placed in a different random folder
I don’t think so. I think for any kind of editing, they’d need to implement some kind of asset versioning.
FWIW Ente just added photo editing
Ente is a great project but with immich as a competitor it has a hard time
What's better about immich? I haven't used either