Photo Backup And Sharing
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For those of you here who support photographers or you are an amateur photographer yourself, I'm wondering what you use to store and share your photos. I know I can use Nextcloud but it's not really designed for things a photographer might want. I'm aware of 2 open source products...Lychee and Piwigo. Wondering if others use these or if you would recommend something else. This is just for me so FOSS is always my first option. Let me know if you have any recommendations.
As for features...
Needs to allow for albums
Filters for either file names or photo attributes like shuter, location, date...etc, maybe also allow me to add tags
Ability to share via links (secure). A bonus if I can set expiry dates and force passwords.
Must have mobile app so I can upload directly from mobile and view via mobile appIn full transparency, I've not fully tried either Lychee or Piwigo but will likely do that along with other recommendations here.
Oh, I should mention, I don't want to rely on either Apple One or Google One. Must be separate from mobile device manufacturer.
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@NashBrydges said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
For those of you here who support photographers or you are an amateur photographer yourself, I'm wondering what you use to store and share your photos. I know I can use Nextcloud but it's not really designed for things a photographer might want. I'm aware of 2 open source products...Lychee and Piwigo. Wondering if others use these or if you would recommend something else. This is just for me so FOSS is always my first option. Let me know if you have any recommendations.
As for features...
Needs to allow for albums
Filters for either file names or photo attributes like shuter, location, date...etc, maybe also allow me to add tags
Ability to share via links (secure). A bonus if I can set expiry dates and force passwords.
Must have mobile app so I can upload directly from mobile and view via mobile appIn full transparency, I've not fully tried either Lychee or Piwigo but will likely do that along with other recommendations here.
Oh, I should mention, I don't want to rely on either Apple One or Google One. Must be separate from mobile device manufacturer.
We have tons of family photos and videos, hundreds of thousands. We use OneDrive, which has all the features you mentioned.
In addition to the features you mentioned, it supports generating HTML code to embed the photo... for displaying on websites. Also does tagging and automatic tagging. Lots more cool stuff too. Oh, versioning and backup as well, which is nice. Allows commenting, shows activity, notifications, captions. -
You can also check out Photoprism, haven't actually used it but seems interesting.
Community Version docs - https://docs.photoprism.org/
Github repo - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/ -
I would be curious as to what you end up with.
I did a short search and found an article on www.opensource.com about alternatives to Google.
Their very first mention was - Nextcloud.
The second was Piwigo.
Per their website, thy offer;
- Upload, from web form, FTP, Shotwell, Lightroom, digiKam or of course mobile apps.
- Batch Manager
- Albums
- Brows by Date
- Permissions, Per album, photos, groups or individual users.
- GeoLocate
- Themes & Plug-ins
- MetaData import
- Web API
And likely more.
No - I’ve not used it. But seems like it has features that would be useful, and similar to many of the other hosted photo storage systems; like Shutterfly, flickr, etc..
Another site; Digital Camera World reports Google Photo as the number 1 suggestion. But for those wanting to limit Google footprint,...
FOSS is always my preferred option when possible as well..
Good Luck
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@NashBrydges said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
'm aware of 2 open source products...Lychee and Piwigo.
I'm still on Flickr, but have been mulling about the idea of using something like these.
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@gjacobse said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
I did a short search and found an article on www.opensource.com about alternatives to Google.
Google isn't a photo tool, it's just really file storage. NextCloud is definitely the closer alternative to Google, but Google is an awful tool for a photographer.
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@Romo said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
You can also check out Photoprism, haven't actually used it but seems interesting.
Community Version docs - https://docs.photoprism.org/
Github repo - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/That one looks really promising. I wonder if there is a tool for ingesting Flickr data. I've got like 40,000 images to port over.
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@scottalanmiller said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
@NashBrydges said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
'm aware of 2 open source products...Lychee and Piwigo.
I'm still on Flickr, but have been mulling about the idea of using something like these.
I knew it was Flickr or photobucket,.. just couldn’t remember.
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@scottalanmiller said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
@gjacobse said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
I did a short search and found an article on www.opensource.com about alternatives to Google.
Google isn't a photo tool, it's just really file storage. NextCloud is definitely the closer alternative to Google, but Google is an awful tool for a photographer.
I can see that.
I wouldn’t use google,.. I’d rather burn my NAS.
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@scottalanmiller said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
@Romo said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
You can also check out Photoprism, haven't actually used it but seems interesting.
Community Version docs - https://docs.photoprism.org/
Github repo - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/That one looks really promising. I wonder if there is a tool for ingesting Flickr data. I've got like 40,000 images to port over.
I'm not familiar with their specific license, the GNU Affero General Public License. It is a GNU GPL v3-ish license, so not really worried about it. But not one I have specifically looked into before.
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@scottalanmiller let me know if you spin this up. I desperately need do get some stuff organized.
Of particular interest is this.
I wonder if they make it easy to remove the duplicates.
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Right now my stuff is a mess.
And that is not including all of the iPhone pictures in iCloud since like 2015.
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@JaredBusch said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
@scottalanmiller said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
@Romo said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
You can also check out Photoprism, haven't actually used it but seems interesting.
Community Version docs - https://docs.photoprism.org/
Github repo - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/That one looks really promising. I wonder if there is a tool for ingesting Flickr data. I've got like 40,000 images to port over.
I'm not familiar with their specific license, the GNU Affero General Public License. It is a GNU GPL v3-ish license, so not really worried about it. But not one I have specifically looked into before.
Not worried about the license, Affero is good. It's more how do I take all my existing meta data and port it over.
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More pics than I thought...
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80,000 pictures.
And getting close to hitting up to 100,000 views per day!
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@scottalanmiller Do flickr pro store the original file as well or just the resampled jpeg?
Similar to how youtube always re-encodes the video you upload? -
@Pete-S said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
@scottalanmiller Do flickr pro store the original file as well or just the resampled jpeg?
Similar to how youtube always re-encodes the video you upload?I have no idea, but I'd imagine they reprocess each pic for their own ML and AI purposes... whether or not they store or show your original I have no idea... good question though.
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@scottalanmiller said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
And getting close to hitting up to 100,000 views per day!
I'm assuming you share these photos with people, or the public?
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@Dashrender said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
@scottalanmiller said in Photo Backup And Sharing:
And getting close to hitting up to 100,000 views per day!
I'm assuming you share these photos with people, or the public?
No, 100k daily private views by birds, dolphins... and aliens. No people and certainly not public.
