imagine-gallery

Image catalog/gallery: make archives of photographs more accessible.

This is a gallery, written in Python/Django, based on the older imagine crawler/updater. This project largely supersedes the older, more modular approach by integrating the update mechanism, admin and gallery web view in one.

Why an image archiver?

As a (hobby) photographer, you might have years and many gigabytes of material on your drives which you only rarely watch back. To make it more easy to find certain pictures or just provide a fun trip down memory lane, use imagine to make an overview of your archives.

The goal is not to import the images into a (new) archive and manage collections from there, but to provide an easy-to-use overview of your work. This can even be used standalone (think on a different machine with no access to your library).

But this is just a gallery, right?

Right :) It's one that tries to make it more easy to get an overview of your collection, and find things back by making use of the EXIF information embedded inside the images.

Part of the reason to create imagine was because other gallery software (zenphoto, gallery2/3 and such) didn't suit my needs, were flaky, insecure or had other shortcomings.

Features

Collections (basically groups of subalbums), protected and hidden collections, configurable album sort options and image sizes (automatic thumbnailing etc), swipe support on mobile devices (and laptops with touch screen and such), keyboard navigation, maximised and full view of images, descriptions, EXIF info, GEO locations (GPS).

Installing

Create a virtualenv, and pip install -r requirements.txt (or use the excellent pip-tools to sync it). libpq-dev is needed to compile psycopg2 (the PostgreSQL connector), which on Debian based systems can be installed with an apt install libpq-dev.

TODO and changes

See the changelog.

Third party libraries

For justifying the thumbnails so they get nicely laid out, Justified-Gallery is used.

The BebasNeue (regular) font used for headings was obtained from FontsForWeb.

Swipe library: jQuery TouchSwipe Plugin.