Tools for better Photo Management

Tools for better Photo Management

January 15, 2025

SelfHosted

  1. Lychee
  2. Piwigo
  3. Photoview
  4. Ente, PhotoPrism, Immich…

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You can give it a try to PhotoQT or digiKam

sudo apt install photoqt

Lately…

I have learnt to export photo frames from a video (with ffmpeg).

Im still impress that with ffmpeg I dont need to re-render videos, which makes joining them really fast.

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Everything is captured here - https://github.com/JAlcocerT/YT-Video-Edition

PS: You can also do it with Google photos (at least at this moment)


FAQ

Proper Photo BackUps

  1. Home SSD
  2. Home HDD
  3. Cloud

The typical **read and write speeds*8 for different interfaces are as follows:

InterfaceRead Speed (MB/s)Write Speed (MB/s)
USB 3.06030
USB 3.1 Gen 155
USB 3.1 Gen 21010
USB 3.2 Gen 1x12020
USB 3.2 Gen 2x24040
USB 44040
Thunderbolt 44040
SATA III600600
NVMe PCIe 3.0 x435003000
NVMe PCIe 4.0 x470006000

I have been exploring also NAS as a reliable options for home backups.

Synlogy seems to be a good alternative, but…in my opinion its just a PC with couple of 3.5 bays.

Im exploring other options at this point.

I just need the space and Linux with containers!

Cold Storage

For example, Amazon Glacier

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/