photos-manager

Introduction

I have a lot of photos, many of them are duplicated, many live in the same path and they're a complete mess, whenever I open the photos folder, the explorer takes so much time to index them all, which is less than ideal.

My main initial goal on this project is to add some utilities for myself to try to order them in separate folders using a CLI. In the future more utilities will be added, and maybe a GUI will be added as well.

Having a GUI in the future is the main reason to have two packages, the cli which will internally will call the core package, which will have all the business logic which in a possible future will be used by the GUI.

Usage

Order photos by month

Order photos from a given folder by year and month. The command works recursively, so every nested folder will get accounted for. Every photo will be placed at the root of the target path and inside folders like 2020-01.

photos-manager-cli order --source "./home/user/photos"  --target "./home/user/photos"

Adds white border

Add a white border to a photo or set of photos and choose from thin, medium or thick border.

# A single photo
photos-manager-cli border --source "./home/user/photos/photo1.jpg"

# Or a set of photos
photos-manager-cli border --source "./home/user/photos"

# And only to the photos starting from some date onwards.
# In this case, all photos from jan 1st 2023.
photos-manager-cli border --source "./home/user/photos" --from "2023-01-01"

Development

Requirements

• git
• Rust >= 1.64.0
• Image Magick >= 7

Run CLI

cargo run -- --help
cargo run order --help
cargo run border --help

Windows

Cargo needs a bit of help to know where the image magick libraries are. After downloading add a .cargo/config.toml file with the correct path to the libraries

cp .cargo/config.toml.example .cargo/config.toml