Photo Sharing with family (some but not all photos)
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travprev · 2023-11-01 05:51

TLDR: Want an easy way to share some, but not all, photos between
family members -- and create merged photo albums from vacations.

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I'm here because I'm looking for something that I can't seem to find
an easy solution for.  I'm wondering if I'm on the right track with
one idea though -- and I'm definitely open to other suggestions.

My wife and I each take a lot of random photos and screenshots and
things we don't want to share with each other (and we probably don't
want to be bothered with each other's random stuff), so we don't want
to just do something like turn on Partner Sharing on Google Photos.

However, when we go on vacation and each of us takes photos on our own
phone, it would be great to merge those into one nice album to go
through and keep the best photos.

And then there's the one-off photo or two we'd like to share with each
other from time to time.

I'm looking for something to make that easy.

My only though right now is to leave Google Photos as the main storage
location but then also set up Synology Photos or some such solution.
But I haven't quite put together how that solves the problem.

Thanks for any suggestions!

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sk1nT7 · 2023-11-01 08:01

Immich.

You can freely select photos into an album and then invite users to
the album. All your photos remain to your user account and sharing
happens via manually created albums. Want to leave one specific
picture out? Sure, just do not add it to the shared album.

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BunkerMoewe · 2023-11-01 08:34

The thing that comes to mind for me is a self hosted NAS or Cloud
Storage (depending from where you want to access your stuff). These
solutions are relatively easy to set up and allow you to store many
photos with good access control. It may not be exactly the thing
you're looking for but it's an easy and expandable solution.

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tech2but1 · 2023-11-01 09:01

I thought Google Photos had libraries that you can then share
individually?

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AnApexBread · 2023-11-01 10:28

>My wife and I each take a lot of random photos and screenshots and
things we don't want to share with each other (and we probably don't
want to be bothered with each other's random stuff), so we don't want
to just do something like turn on Partner Sharing on Google Photos.

You can specify what gets shared with partner sharing. My wife and I
have partner sharing set up so that it automatically shares photos of
our kids with each other but not anything else.

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ReinoutWolter · 2023-11-01 11:15

[https://cheese.wip2p.com](https://scramble.wip2p.com)

P2P photo sharing. It auto compresses larger photos so its mainly for
sharing the best photos with friends/family rather than a backup.

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lespasapp · 2023-11-01 12:29

Nextcloud + [Les Pas](https://github.com/scubajeff/lespas#readme)

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homegrowntechie · 2023-11-02 04:41

Nextcloud Memories. It has an automatic migration flow to migrate from
Google Photos, and has collaborative albums as well as the ability to
share individual photos and folders.
Other features like slideshow, geotagging on map, timeline view, face
detection, object detection, hardware transcoding for smooth video
playback, android mobile app, and lots more. Memories is overlooked
too much imo.