Tools for selecting the best pictures

14 hours ago by kaosterra to c/selfhosted

Hi all!

I started my self-hosting journey a bit ago and currently host my own instance of Immich. With almost 30k pictures I feel like I want to find the best pictures and print an actual album for each event/trip/etc whenever it makes sense. I was wondering if there are any self-hosted options for this where I can, given a specific album (or folder assuming there is no Immich integration) it will choose the "best" pictures for printing (I understand that "best pictures" is very subjective).

tapdattl 5 points 13 hours ago

Maybe do some deduplication first? https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

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irmadlad 1 point 10 hours ago

czkawka

That certainly would thin the pile and cut down on the manual labor aspect. It uses a hashing method, iirc. Used it to thin out duplicate audio files, being careful not to delete files that might have the same filename but one would be a live rendition, and a studio/album rendition of the same song. Jimi Hendrix, in my experience, is notorious for this. One of the things that I dig about him, is that he never really performed the same song the same way. He sort of just really went with a stream of consciousness and pulled it off quite well.

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irmadlad 3 points 14 hours ago

I am unsure how you would go about that without AI. You could probably write a python script that hooks in with AI, that ranks by focus, brightness, saturation or other such criteria. However, I suspect that there would have to be a fair amount of manual labor to do that. That's an interesting request. I'll watch the thread and see what the outcome is.

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frongt 1 point 11 hours ago

The problem I see here is that the best images are those that have been edited, i.e. rotated, cropped, and adjusted brightness/contrast/saturation/white balance. Like I can have a thousand snaps from my camera, but they'll only look good once I pick them out and edit them.

I suppose, if you have a consistent camera with photos in consistent conditions, you could apply edits in bulk. And I know Google has automated crop/rotate/etc features in the Google Photos app, so maybe you could find a self-hosted tool smart enough to do that across all your photos, then make a review pass to pick out the good ones.

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