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Immich Public Proxy shares your Immich photos and albums safely without exposing your Immich instance to the public

2025-05-192025-05-19 Danie
Blue background featuring the text "Immich Public Proxy" and a colorful shield logo, promoting secure sharing of self-hosted photo albums.

Immich is a wonderful bit of software, but since it holds all your private photos it’s best to keep it fully locked down. This presents a problem when you want to share a photo or […]

BlogImmich, opensource, photos, security, technology

Here’s how you can replace Google Photos with a self-hosted Immich server

2024-12-172024-12-17 Danie
The image shows a computer screen displaying a photo management interface called Immich. In the foreground, the interface shows thumbnails of photos of computer hardware components, including a motherboard and a hard drive. The background reveals a glimpse of a bedroom corner with gaming-related items like figures and books about Blender, a 3D creation suite. The photos' metadata reveals the dates of upload: October 28th, and November 2nd and 5th. This suggests a systematic approach to organization, storing these items in an online library. The background reveals a playful, personalized space with a mix of mature and youthful interests such as gaming and 3D modelling.

Immich is really very good — I did a video about myself a few months ago, which shows what you can expect from it and what it looks like to use. As the article mentions, […]

Blogopensource, photos, selfhosting, technology

IOPaint is an open source locally run Python app for AI-powered photo editing

2024-10-202024-10-20 Danie
Image of a young girl being edited. A yellow vertical line has dissected a woman standing in the background, so that when slid left or right, it will show a before and after view of the woman in the background having been removed from the photo.

There are many cloud services that offer many of these features but they either require registration, or serve adverts, or require payment to do things like background removal, inpainting or outpainting tasks. This app runs […]

BlogAI, opensource, photos, technology

LibrePhotos – a self-hosted open-source photo management service

2024-01-282024-01-28 Danie
As per title

Unlike commercial service that store your photos in the cloud and scan/index them to train their machine learning models and collect ad targeting data on you, LibrePhotos keeps all your photos and metadata on your […]

Bloglibrephotos, opensource, photos, privacy, technology

Open source Piwigo photo hosting updates to v14 with some nice improvements like WebP support

2023-12-132023-12-13 Danie
Collage of various screenshots of the new Piwigo v14

Search engine in the gallery gets an in-depth redesign. Piwigo 14 also comes with highly expected support for new image file types like HEIC (the default file type used for photos on iOS and Android […]

Blogopensource, photos, technology

Start Making Physical Photo Albums: Digital Memories Are Too Easily Lost

2023-10-092023-10-09 Danie
View of a photo album page, with yellow background, and the title "Venice" at the top left with a sticker of a plane next t o it. Four photos on the page depict scenes in Venice such as two moored gondoliers, the top of Basilica di San Marco, some street lights, and whole lot of typically Venetian masks.

The linked article really focusses on physically printing photos and sticking them in an album. But I’ve actually found printed Photo Books to work very well. They do achieve the same purpose of sitting around […]

Blogmemories, photos, technology

Table Comparison of 14 different Free and Open-Source Photo Libraries

2023-09-142023-09-14 Danie
A table with various photo library app names along the top row, and the second row showing the app logos for each. The left most column lists various features, and the centre area shows per app which has what faetures. The link in this post will take you to an HTML version of the table.

Many are looking for alternatives to Google Photos, and this comparison table does an excellent job of comparing the most obvious features side by side. Make sure to expand the table for a complete view. […]

Blogalternativesto, opensource, photos, technology

Google Photos app starting to tag the back of heads, and adding a manual Cinematic Photo feature

2023-06-092023-06-09 Danie
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Seems Google is intending to keep Google Photos, as they have been adding quite a few new features lately. One is a prompt that has started to pop up for somewhere the back of a […]

Blogcinematic, photos, tagging, technology

PhotoPills is a $10.99 app that will help predict when the Sun, Moon, and other Celestial Objects will be in a Specific Position for Photography

2023-01-072023-01-07 Danie
Photo of a rock archway silhouetted with the sun positioned inside the arch

Have you ever walked through a place and thought: “It’s too bad the Moon isn’t RIGHT there… would have made a great photo!”? What about the Sun? And the Milky Way? Well, now you can […]

1 CommentBlog#magichour, #photopills, photography, photos, technology

Does megapixel count matter for smartphones? It’s not the most important spec to look at

2023-01-042023-01-04 Danie
Galaxy Flip phone, opened with image of person showing thumbs up, standing on a glass table top

No, megapixel count is not the sole factor you should consider when shopping for a phone. Although megapixel counts are important, other variables affect image quality. The hardware, software, and your personal preference determine picture […]

Blogcameras, photography, photos, smartphone, technology

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