Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers

You configure photoview to search for media directly from the file system. The media is then automatically organized based on the file structure, directories will become albums that are populated with the photos and videos found inside it. It will automatically rescan for new media and add it to keep it updated.

Photoview is a simple and user-friendly Photo Gallery for self-hosted personal servers. It is made for photographers and aims to provide an easy and fast way to navigate directories, with thousands of high resolution photos.

This approach gives you the full control to organize your media how you want. Let it be using a file server like Samba or FTP, or even files from a Nextcloud instance.

Darktable is a great tool to work with RAW image files. Unlike Lightroom which is only available for Windows and macOS, Darktable is a cross-platform tool, available for Windows, macOS and Linux. The use of Darktable is pretty similar to Lightroom. Darktable makes repetitive tasks a breeze, and exports directly to websites, yet it doesn’t retain nearly as much detail compared to Lightroom. Photo Lab by DxO is the third professional software editing program, behind Lightroom and Capture One.

Multiple users can be configured, each with their own directory of photos and videos. Each user is configured with a username and password, to keep their media private.

Albums and individual photos or videos can easily be shared by generating a public or password protected link.

When photos are analyzed for EXIF metadata, this information is displayed next to the photo. If the photo is taken with a mobile phone, it most likely includes the coordinates of where the picture was taken. This is used to automatically present the photos on a map.

When multiple photos are taken at the same location, they are grouped so they can be viewed together.

• RAW Support

  Darktable is used under the hood to convert RAW images, and thus supports many common formats.

  See the supported cameras here.

• EXIF Metadata

  The metadata of images and videos is automatically extracted and shown in the sidebar. It's also used to present images on a map.

• Video Support

  Ffmpeg is used under the hood to convert videos and optimize them for the web.

• Runs on ARM

  Photoview runs on many platforms, including ARM processors. Making it possible to run on embedded devices like the Raspberry Pi.

• Performant

  Thumbnails are automatically generated and photos first load when they are visible on the screen.

• Secure

  All media resources are protected with a cookie-token, all passwords are properly hashed, and the API uses a strict CORS policy.

• Private

  Your media is valuable, with Photoview nothing leaves your server.

• Free and Open-Source

  Photoview is completely free and the code is open for everyone to look at and modify.

As you Know, Recently I published One Article on Good LightRoom Alternative to Edit RAW files For FREE.

First of all, Thank you each and everyone for a good response to that article.

But If you’re still a Lightroom user, but Don’t want to spend money to Edit RAW files then you can prefer this article.

If you’re familiar with DarkTable then you must know that It’s not so simple software Like Lightroom.

Which gives you Better UI/UX so you can easily set up all the editing tools and import/export options etc…

You need to edit so many images using DarkTable, If you want to master it,

Now today, In this article I’m going to talk about one of the most common questions each and every photographer asks once he started editing using DarkTable.

and the question is How to Apple/Create Presets Using DarkTable.

If you’re one of them then within the next 2 minutes you’ll find the simple answer to save/create Presets using DarkTable.

Easy Way to Create Presets Using DarkTable

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So here are some simple steps which you need to follow to create DarkTable Preset and save them in one place.

before we start, firstly you need to roughly edit your images, so we can save something.

Now once you finish your editing, just go to the History panel. ( on darkRoom tab -> Left Side -> History Section ), which looks like this one…

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as mention select that rounded button, which tells you that ‘Create a style from current history stack‘, now just click on that.

Now, Just select all the required Items, and remove not required items like Rotate, Crop Etc… and save it.

That’s all you need to do, to create your Own & very First DarkTable Preset.

now Let’s talk about the second part…

How To Apply DarkTable Preset

Once you Create any preset, It’s quick and easy to Apply It, let me tell you why…

Darktable Vs Lightroom

the very first step is, select the image which you want to Edit And Apply the existing Preset.

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So the bottom of your main image, you’ll see something like this…

Darktable Vs Lightroom

Once you click on that button, you’ll see a list of presets, which you’ve created.

now just click on any one of these preset to apply existing edits.

as simple as that.

Iphone To Darktable

That’s The simple and easy way that you can use to Create/Apply Presets using DarkTable.

Hope you guys learned something new today.

Thank you, have a good day 😀