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
    3·
    5 months 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.

      • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        That’s what they said last year! And the year before!

        Maybe not the stable part.

      • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        5 months 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
          1·
          5 months 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
      0·
      5 months 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.orgEnglish
        3·
        5 months 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.

        • Since all clients work differently, this probably has to be done server-side, requires a new endpoint, caching logic, client support.
        • Immich supports a ton of file formats, the solution has to work with all of them.
        • We must not lose meta data, quality or alter the image in some other way, Immich is a backup tool, file integrity is a top priority.

        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.

    • Xylight‮@lemdro.idEnglish
      01·
      5 months 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