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.

  • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
    47·
    1 day 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.

      • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        14 hours 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.

        • d00phy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          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.

    • rarsamx@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      16 hours 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?

      • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        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.

    • Xylight@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      17 hours 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.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I don’t think so. I think for any kind of editing, they’d need to implement some kind of asset versioning.