Picturebot

Picturebot is photo organizer app which allows the user to organize photos in a proper way. It allows the user to easily add pictures to albums. An album contains workflows, every workflow has a unique purpose. There are six defined workflows: backup, base, preview, favorites, edited and social media.

• Backup flow's purpose is to backup pictures taken in a shoot
• Base flow contains all filtered photos (blurred, unsharp, duplicate, … pictures are deleted)
• Preview flow contains converted RAW pictues, RAW pictures are converted to JPG
• Favorites flow contains all the pictures which are favorited, favorites pictures can be edited
• Edited flow contains pictures that are edited
• Social media flow contains cropped pictures that are used to post on social media

The idea is that the filesystem is mirrored within the application, actions such as library, collection and album deletion are non destructive. Which means that only the database link is deleted. Only picture deletions are destructive, the idea behind is that deleted pictures still can be restored from the backup flow.

Another feature is that all pictures follow a special naming convention, this is done automatically by the program

<shoot_dd-mm-YYYY_index.extension>

The oldest pictures in the shoot is marked with index one

 <shoot_02-06-2020_1.jpg>

The second oldest pictures in the shoot is marked with index two, etc..

<shoot_02-06-2020_2.jpg>

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Structure

• Library: Is the main folder where all collections and albums are stored
• Collection: Multiple collections can be linked to a library, their purpose is to hold multiple albums
• Album: Contains pictures organized in flows

Example

United states (library)
├── Arizona (collection)
│   ├── Grand canyon (album)
│   └── Monument valley (album)
├── Florida (collection)
│   ├── Miami (album)
│   └── Disney world (album)
└── California (collection)
    ├── Los Angeles (album)
    └── San Francisco (album)

⚠️ Every album contains workflows

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Workflow

1. Create a library
2. Create a collection and link it to a library
3. Create an album and link an album to a collection
4. Drag pictures to the dropzone and save the pictures
5. Delete blurred, unsharp and duplicated pictures
6. Click on the start organizing button
7. Favorite the pictures you did like to edit
8. After editing the picture save the picture within the edited flow

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Converting pictures

Converting RAW images to a JPG format is done by using ImageMagick.

⚠️ A converersion percentage must be configured within the settings page

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Manual

Under construction ⚠️

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Features

• Add, update and delete libraries, collections and albums
• Rename pictures within a shoot accordingly
• Delete pictures
• Open current library, collection and album in explorer
• Open a picture with an external editing program
• Convert RAW pictures to a JPG picture format
• Picture slideshow when displaying pictures in full screen

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TODO

Functionality	Priority	Status
Add picture lazy loading	High	✅
Database API	High	✅
Investigate memory & performance issues	High	❌
Splash screen	High	❌
Delete collections	High	❌
Delete libraries	High	❌
Import albums	High	❌
Remove menu bar	High	✅
Enable full-screen when in display mode	High	✅
Add functionality to import legacy albums to the new database system	High	✅
Add pictures to an existing shoots	High	❌
Display update status' when the application is updating	High	✅
Fix: Date component layout issues in production	High	✅
Conversion percentage default value	High	✅
Automatically set the album date	Medium	✅
Visual representation whether a shoot is fully edited, partially edited, or not edited at all	Medium	❌
Investigate whether it is possible to add a tool to automatically upload pictures to google pictures	Medium	❌
Detect whether an external memory-card is connected and automatically open the directory when adding a new shoot	Medium	❌
Investigate and implement the best way how to add a pictures within the backup flow to the base flow	Medium	❌
Add meta-data information to pictures	Medium	❌
Import compressed pictures	Medium	❌
Investigate and implement a way of dragging pictures to lightroom, since lightroom doesn’t support a CLI to open files	Low	❌
Different themes	Low	❌
Let the user decide how they want to format the datetime format	Low	❌
Add a picture rating system and the ability to filter pictures based on their rating	Low	❌