ermiry / cimage

Cimage is a cross-platform desktop application that helps you manage your photos and videos by organizing them in any way you like.

Cimage

Cimage is a cross-platform desktop application that helps you manage your photos and videos by organizing them in any way you like. Cimage is written in C by implementing ermiry's Cengine framework (cengine.ermiry.com), which works on top of SDL2.

Cimage's objective is to provide an easy to use cross-platform application, not only for desktop OS (Linux, Mac OS, Windows), but also for mobile devices (Android and iOS) and even a web application, to manage your photos and videos across your different devices.

Development for Cimage started in 04/October/2018 as an only Linux desktop application designed to manage and display photos in a very minimalistic environment and with very little image manipulation in mind. But since then, many other features have been added to create a greater experience. And expect constant updates to get the must out of your photos.

Current Features

• Open a folder to display its general media content (only images and videos in supported formats)
• Organize and display your media files by name, type, date, location, or by implementing your own structure
• Open an image file in the current or in a dedicated window for display
• Support for image slideshows (with various adjustable settings)
• Video player
• Save and sync your configuration across your multiple devices (requires an ermiry account)

Upcoming Features

• Support for media hosting in ermiry's servers (requires an ermiry account)
• Image annotation (draw and take notes directly in your photos)
• Handwritten text recognition
• Image classification and recognition (detect common objects in your photos)
• Face recognition
• Pose recognition

Download

You can download the rolling update version of cimage by clonning this repository; although there is no warranty of a seamless user experience.

Or you can download the last stable release in the release tab here on GitHub or from the official download page: cimage.ermiry.com

Usage

Open cimage and select you photos folder. Then select the parameters you want to organize your photos and let cimage do its magic. A small file will be generated and you can use it cross-platform to view your photos in the same way in all your devices (assuming the same folder hierarchy is being used).

Refer to the official documentation for advanced preferences, questions and updates: cimage.ermiry.com

cimage's Issues

Error when closing window

Sometimes, a process seems to keep going when closing the window manually. However, this does not happens, when sending SIGINT in the terminal.

Add the ability to select between a dark & light theme

Integrate directly into cengine a way of easily changing ui components' colors based on the selected theme, as well as an easily way of adding theme configuration.

More work on dedicated image window

• Left and Right keys should display next / prev image in the list
• Ability to zoom in the image
• Ability to resize the window
• Ability to display in full screen
• Ability to rotate the image
• Display main image properties: dimensions, format, date, etc

Remove (temporarily) video playback capabilities

Video playback capabilities will be pushed back to be implemented after the first release.

Add splash screen

Display a splash screen at the beginning of the app

• display cimage logo
• display cimage version
• display "created by ermiry"

Finish jpeg methods implementation

Finish work in custom jpeg methods implementations

• Parse header to get image info

Add settings screen

• Ability to select resolution
• Set scroll sensitivity, for both keys and scroll wheel
• Set theme

Add ability to create slideshows

• Add the ability to select images to be displayed in a slideshow
• Ability to select the time of display for each individual image, as well as for the whole batch
• Press the space-bar to pause / resume the slideshow
• Press esc to exit the slideshow
• Ability to save slideshows to be displayed later in the same order
• Add side by side slideshows

Right click menu implementation

Add option to display a menu when pressing the right click

• Implement directly into cengine for later use
• When a number of images are selected, right click to create a new slideshow
• When selecting one or more images, options to delete or move into a new media folder

Add support for more media types

• gifs
• bmp
• mp4

Implement area selection

Right now we can only select images by clicking one by one on them, implement an area selection method that can allow us to select multiple images with the same operation

Implement layer masking for catching mouse events

We need a way to catch mouse click events only on the top most element (in the higher layer). Right now if an element is on top, and we click the mouse button, both elements will get the event. This is not a perfect solution but should be good enough for now.

Handle nested images folders

• Correctly display folders in images screen, and when clicking on one of them we can move to display its contents
• Support back and forward navigation

Integrate yolo detection algorithm

• It should be presented as separate option from the main release as proper implementation requires to have GPU compatibility, unless we want to offer a version with only CPU processing
• Integrate custom yolo implementation to correctly detect everyday objects
• Add the ability to select objects in images and use them to train the net locally and to submit the results

Drag and drop implementation

Implement drag and drop functionality of ui elements to handle

• Creation of new media folders directly from cimage
• Creating a new presentation using selected images
• Move images from one place to another

Display zoom level text in status bar

Update with latest cengine code