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).
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What are the criteria for “best”? If you can define them sufficiently, a self hosted llm, with vision (I’m thinking a Qwen3.6-35B or even a straight Qwen3.4 7B VL) might fit the bill. It’s a classification job - LLMs are good at those.
Does immich have dedupe / quality eval plug ins? They might do the job too.
You could write something (or get Claude to code you something) but option 1 seems simplest.
Maybe do some deduplication first? https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
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.
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.
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.
