dieTasse@feddit.org 2 days ago
Its huge and not huge at the same time. Lots of new stuff, but lots only in some clients. What disappoints me a bit is the lossless editing. On one hand it is nice feature to have, on the other I want my edits to be permanent. I made Immich to save my images in pre-defined structure so that if immich stops working one day (or if I want to perform batch file operations or whatever) I still have my photos neatly organized. This lossless editing means that the changes will live somewhere in database and not on the actual filesystem. I hope they eventually introduce option to apply on the actual file.
Well, they have – I think. When you download an edited image, it supposedly downloads an image with edits applied. The original is optionally available too.
If you download the edited image, this is effectively equivalent to the status quo of image editing.
Yeah, I mean its still good, but I wish I could just say “apply permanently” and have it on the filesystem without having to tinker…
Immich is apparently not on not changing the original file. This was learnt by me when I used their storage template feature to rename all of my and my partner’s images when uploaded to our server to a single, unified, agreed upon structure. And then, when we made an album and downloaded that album, were confused to find out that the files were all the original filenames, not the new structure. A little bit annoying imho, but Immich is still great.
Yeah, I think you either have to use their “external library” feature, which makes immich basically just an image viewer or you have to let immich handle everything but then the filesystem settings are very limited. Sadly there is nothing in between. I opted for the second option. I have the basic storage template (with folders for years, months and days) and I think that is ok by me, but I really wish I could also perma edit the photos. Fyi you can still do operations on your images on the filesystem (not renaming or moving though), you just have to refresh metadata and thumbnails for that photo (or video) in immich. I was doing that for the image or video rotations. Its still not very practical to do that, but that is at least something.
DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I for one love this implementation of image edits. I think you have a valid concern though.
dieTasse@feddit.org 2 days ago
I love it too actually, I just wish to have a button that would basically say “apply permanently”.