Copying this from Reddit (I still get the daily emails). Since I no longer post there, I figured I would ask here, and include my prediction: Will be more popular, possibly in stable release. Still won’t be able to rotate photos natively.
I was one of the first Immich core developers but had to leave a year ago due to a change in my job situation.
Just wanted to say that the team (especially Alex, the founder) are wonderful people and very dedicated to the project. When they don’t implement the features everyone wants, there is usually a very good reason, like security or architectural concerns. The philosophy behind the project is also to do things slowly but right.
I believe they continue focussing on robusness and bugfixing. A topic that we discussed a lot was e2e encryption. We really wanted to implement that, but it was very hard and back then would have compromised performance too much. I still think that e2e encryption will come at some point.
cron@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
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.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Basic photo editing capabilities are planned after stable release, this year :)
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s what they said last year! And the year before!
Maybe not the stable part.
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
FWIW Ente just added photo editing
illusionist@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ente is a great project but with immich as a competitor it has a hard time
MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 2 weeks ago
Does it not already have basic image editing? I can crop/rotate and apply some preset filters.Image
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cron@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
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.
rarsamx@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.jpg
Or
Using the auto-orient option or using jhead.
Why is it so hard for this app to implement it?
majoru@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Former Immich dev here:
Even in the early days, we got hundreds of different feature requests that “can be done easily”. Even this example is a lot harder than you might think.
If you have an idea, how to tackle all of this, contact the dev team on Discord, they’re really helpful and will surely guide you through the process of implementing.
cron@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I know nothing avout 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.
Xylight@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
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
d00phy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think so. I think for any kind of editing, they’d need to implement some kind of asset versioning.